Mawgan in Meneage, Cornwall

Oh Well, so much for updating the blog last Friday, my apologies. Making transcripts of the Mawgan baptisms for the period from the start of the register up to 1640 is proving to be rather challenging, only surpassed by the burials for the same period. There is throughout the 1600's some large gaps in the records, which at the time, was bought about by civil strife. So sadly, that means, some of our brick walls in our research will remain. I have yet to check but there were Bishops Transcipts for this period too. If they still exist, then eventually I may be able to fill in some of the gaps.

In other news which covers the South East Somerset Section. I now have the second part of the 1841 Milborne Port Census finished. All that remains to be done is a re-check and resolving of some of the queries through cross checking other records and then they will go online, which hopefully will be sometime next week. Other work in progress or almost completed includes transcripts of the 1852 Slaters Directory for Henstridge, Milborne Port and Wincanton. Other 1841 census transcripts for Maperton, North Cheriton and Templecombe.

Roger