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Does anyone have access to pre 1837 records for Doncaster and surrounds. I am trying to trace our Wood family and need someone who is prepared to do some searching in those records for me as we are living in Australia.

Hope someone can assist.

Many Thanks, Joan

You have not put any christian names down but a quick serach on the 1881 census for Wood/Doncaster showed quite a few for Doncaster and some of the dates are 1817/1821/1822/1832 so it may be worth looking at the census for those dates

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/frameset_search.asp

1881 census free to search

Alternatively put all the info you have on here and someone may be able to help

Thanks Paula,

Thomas Philemon Wood married Mary in the late 1790's we suspect. Children John b 1799 and Thomas Howson Wood b 1810 were transported to Australia in 1832. We imagine that there are other children. The father was a tailor. Those two boys were christened in St Peter Sheffield.

Hope this helps, Joan

Go to http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp and search for an LDS FHC in the centre column. Unless you live in Normanton QLD, there's probably an FHC not too distant (otherwise, it's a day's drive to sample the fleshpots of Mount Isa).

We're going to check the search tab in the blue bar at top.

First, Search - Advanced Search, then click on the IGI at left.
Enter parents Thomas Wood + Mary 1810 +/-20 in Yorkshire.
There's several St Peter's hits - click on, say, Thomas Howson Wood.
It says it's an extracted record (which is good - the contributed records are of variable quality) - and it says:

Source Information:
Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type:
C150522 1809 - 1812 0919327 Film 6909644 Film
Sheet: 00

Now click on the source call # link to see what it was extracted from:

Title Bishop's transcripts for Sheffield, 1608-1828
Authors Church of England. Parish Church of Sheffield (Yorkshire) (Main Author)
Notes Microfilm of original records in the Borthwick Institute, York.
Some years include records for the chapelries of Attercliffe and Ecclesall-Bierlow.

and click on view film notes button at top right:

Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1802-1812. FHL BRITISH Film 919327
[plus a mess of other dates/films]


[Bishops transcripts are the church's own back-up copy of the parish registers]



The other way to get here is via Search - Library catalog, then a place search for Sheffield. We want church records.
Title The parish register of Sheffield in the county of York seems to be published transcripts stopping too early, so all we have are the BTs we saw earlier.



One can rent these films to view at your local FHC - give them a call to sort out the logistics. (You'll need to know the film #s of interest).


One can use the batch # to limit one's IGI search to one register for one church in one block of time.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm