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hi just wondered if someone can help me find children of Thomas Ashburn Pester and Elizabeth Truscott. Through what I've found out they married in 1845 in Plymouth, devon , their first child to my knowledge was Edwin Ashburn Pester born 1855/56 in Portsea, hampshire, but I would have thought they'd have children before that, so if anyone can help me find some children that would be good, as i've only found two so far... thanks Steve

I don't know how many parish churches there were in Plymouth at the time, but it might help if you said which church the parents were married at?

From Ancestry civil reg, Pester births registration district 10 Devon About this database A collection of indexes to Birth, Marriage, and Death records for England and Wales, between 1837 and 1983. More information below « Global Search Results Name Year Quarter District County Volume Page Pester, Charles 1845 September Chard Devon Dorset Somerset 10 331 Pester, Charlotte Galliford 1846 March Barnstaple Devon 10 31 PESTER, Christiana 1849 September Chard Devon Dorset Somerset 10 350 PESTER, Daniel 1843 December Chard Devon Dorset Somerset 10 392 Pester, Emma 1845 September Taunton (1837-1974) Devon Somerset 10 411 Pester, Frederick Henry 1850 March St Thomas Devon 10 236 PESTER, Henry Richard 1848 September Exeter Devon 10 92 Pester, James 1847 March Barnstaple Devon 10 30 Pester, James 1847 September Taunton (1837-1974) Devon Somerset 10 387 Pester, Jemima 1846 March St Thomas Devon 10 263 Pester, John Templeman 1850 March Chard Devon Dorset Somerset 10 395 PESTER, Mary Ann 1849 September Barnstaple Devon 10 27 PESTER, Sarah Ann 1844 March Honiton Devon 10 125 Pester, Sarah Ann 1847 March St Thomas Devon 10 234 nell

i actually don't know what church they married in, i found that entry on freebmd, and got the info from familysearch.org too

There are loads more Pesters born Devon after 1852, but of course there's no way of knowing which are yours. I would suggest you find the family on the 1851 and 1861 censuses to see which children are listed with the parents, and then look for the births. nell

thanks nell, how many of these can i be sure are Thomas and Elizabeth's children? if someone has some kind of parish records from 1846-1855 that would help i guess

You should be able to find all the children on LDS site with Thomas and Elizabeth by entering them as the parents. nell

If you order the marriage certificate it should have where they married on it, even if they married in a registry office

You can't be sure which are yours, and you can't even be sure of how many parishes your relatives lived in. What you can do is find out which parish they married in and where they were during the census. Then you will have to check the registers which will be at the local records office, or see if the parishes are in registration districts mentioned on the list I gave you. If you think they could be yours and want to check you can use the parents' names as a check when you order the certs. That's why I think it would be easier to see who is listed living with them on the census first. nell

oh, should it, all the ones i've had have been in the registry office, i know they married in plymouth, thomas must have been a sailor,

If they married in a registry office then fair enough you won't get a church. Instead try and find out what parish they were living in in the 1851 and 1861 census returns. The parish is usually in the top right hand corner of the page of the census return. Would help you narrow down the search. Other than that, you could try looking at the source information for those baptism records you found on familysearch.org . The link is at the bottom of each record.

Steve Thomas' occupation (which may well be connected with sailing) would be on his marriage cert and also on the census. nell

i've searched census records, but drew a bit of a blank really, they married in 1845 but people listed in 1871 and afterwards are too young to be Edwin's parents

Steve If Thomas and Elizabeth were married 1845, I'd look for them and their family on the 1851 census. I know its difficult when its not online and you aren't even sure whether they would be in Devon or Hants, but I think it would be worth checking the area in which they married, and where the eldest child you know of was born - start with the addresses on the wedding and birth certs and then check surrounding areas. It's a shame they aren't tiny villages :-( nell

yeah i know, i've requested help on this site, and getting the certificate could be a dead end as it might not be even the parents of Edwin in the first place,

Steve Can we look at this the other way - how did you get back to Thomas & ELizabeth, was it through Edwin? NELL

yes, found an entry for Edwin and listed his parents as thomas ashburn pester and elizabeth truscott, this was on familysearch.org.