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Hi, I purchased a Massive Holy Bible a couple of years ago, and it has some family detail in it. I am trying to get my head around my own family history let alone this one - sooooo if anyone wants a hobby of finding it's owners here's the details. The bible is 6 inches thick and 15 x 11. The names that I can read are:- Marriage between:- George & Elizabeth Hudspith - Married Nov 20th 1875 Births:- (ALL with the surname of Hudspith) John Born Sept 10th 1839 Mary Born March 13th 1841 Edward Born January 17th 1843 Samuel Born March 30th 1845 Ellen Born April 7th 1847 George Born March 29th 1857 Mary Ellen Born June 9th 1876 John Born Oct 23rd 1877 Isabel Born Nov 26th 1879 Meggie Born Oct 1st 1883 George Edward Born Dec 29th 1885 Deaths : John Died Dec 5th 1871 aged 22 years Mary Died Sept 19th 1858 aged 18 years Samuel Died June 28th 1858 aged 14 years George Died Nov 6th 1847 aged 64 years I also have a vacination certificate:- Hallwhistle Parish Child is Hilda Hudspith Annie

I inherited a lovely old bible a few years ago that had names in, managed to contact a decendent on GR of the recorded family, I've offered to send him photo's of the pages with names on as it give names and dates as well as the location of the parent's. Have also added a tree for the family to my Ancestry account so can keep an eye on other's looking for the family. Goodluck sorting out the tree!

It's wonderful, I'm not sure I'll give it up though - it takes pride of place in my house I just love it.

Adding this in case it helps. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriages Dec 1875 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BATEY Elizabeth Haltwhistle 10b 521 BROWN Robert Haltwhistle 10b 521 >>HUDSPITH George Haltwhistle 10b 521 >>LEE Elizabeth Ann Haltwhistle 10b 521 Gwyn

when people have spoken about family bibles befor I have not taken a lot of notice. Didnt think ours had one. However I had a very pleasant surprise in August when we visited my mums cousin. He brought out a family bible belonging to the Lawcock family . Andrew Lawcock being the owner born in 1786. It gave a few details but I had already gathered the info through scrolling through records etc. If only I had known. It gave me great pleasure just to hold it and get a feel of it..LOL

I did a name search on here - there's a George b. 1839 in someone's tree (Jacqueline)! The Bible relating to my mother's family was destroyed in a house fire in 1973 - all that info!