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  • Who Do You Think You Are?

    Q&A

    Oct 20, 2020 9 minutes
    EDITED BY CLAIRE VAUGHAN

    KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset

    SHAUNA HICKS is a genealogist, writer and speaker based in Australia

    EMMA JOLLY is a writer, historical researcher and member of AGRA

    DEBBIE KENNETT is the author of DNA and Social Networking

    JAYNE SHRIMPTON is a professional dress historian and portrait specialist

    ALAN STEWART is a family history writer, and author of Grow Your Own Family Tree

    PHIL TOMASELLI is a military family history expert, and wrote Tracing Your Air Force Ancestors

    PETER TOWEY is a genealogist with expert knowledge of Devon and Cornwall

    Why can’t I find a burial record when the local registers have recently been digitised?

    Q I’m trying to find a death record for Nicholas Huntley born in Tewkesbury (baptised 27 March 1758) to Thomas Huntley and Sarah Wilcox. Nicholas married Hester Morris (née Holburson) on 27 November 1786 in nearby Charlton Kings. Their three children were born in Cheltenham. A newspaper article places a Nicholas Huntley in Cheltenham in 1821. His daughter Cahaziah (baptised 1788 in Cheltenham) also disappears from the records after this date.

    Sheila Mason

    The evidence you have on Nicholas Huntley’s life so far indicates that he was living in Cheltenham during the years in which his children were born. You have noted that Cahaziah/Cheziah Huntley was baptised on 23 November 1788 in Cheltenham. The Gloucestershire Archives collection on also shows a Thomas Huntley, son of Nicholas and Ester Huntley, baptised in Cheltenham on 20 May 1793. There was.

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