Harpin...

[Groundhopper]

I am just going through my old notes and i have a Jane Harpin...of Pontesbury baptised on 29 March 1717 at Westbury in Shropshire...but i havent got her parents down if they were recorded. I am not sure where i got the info from which is no use but can anybody help at all please...

[Pam Downes]

I have allegedly checked Ancestry, Findmypast, FamilySearch, and FreeREG, with no success.

When you transcribe from a parish register/census image/whatever, do you transcribe the name as spelt in the record, or do you transcribe into the most common form of the name? (e.g. if the name was spelt Rebbeca in an image would you enter it into your records as that, or enter it as Rebecca?) I'm thinking of possible misspellings of Harpin, or if it could even have been spelt Harbin in the register. A difference that a 'variants' option might not pick up.

Pam

[Jomot1]

If you search for her on Familysearch (and elsewhere) as Joan Arpin you should find the record you're looking for. Parents Jonathan & Sara

[Pam Downes]

That, to my mind, is an amazing bit of detective work, Jomot1.

Pam

[emeltee]

Whilst searching for the baptism I came across this burial

Jane Arpin 11 September 1741 Westbury.

Both images (baptism and burial) on fmp.

Emeltom

[Pam Downes]

Whilst searching for the baptism I came across this burial

Jane Arpin 11 September 1741 Westbury.

Both images (baptism and burial) on fmp.

Emeltom

That nicely muddies the waters.
Is she the Joan Arpin baptised in 1717, who dies a spinster? Or is she a Jane who married into the Harpin family?

Pam

[emeltee]

Unfortunatley all the entry gives is the name and date. Having found it I couldn't not mention it, even if it is discounted later.

Emeltee

[Pam Downes]

Unfortunatley all the entry gives is the name and date. Having found it I couldn't not mention it, even if it is discounted later.

Emeltee

I didn't expect you to give a definitive answer to my rhetorical question.

As you say, all you can do is report what you've found for further consideration.

Pam

[Groundhopper]

I didn't expect you to give a definitive answer to my rhetorical question.

As you say, all you can do is report what you've found for further consideration.

Pam

thanks everyone...my Jane Harpin married Samuel Pugh in Shrewsbury in 1740...

[Groundhopper]

just gone on the i.g.i. page and it gives me jOHNATHON AND eLIZABETH wILLIAMS...?