Ware parish registers CD, where?

[Findem]

Looking at the Ware St Mary the Virgin marriages I think Thomas Galoway possibly had at least three siblings in Ware.
Elizabeth Galoway married Thomas Cason 9 May 1558.
Elizabeth Galoway married Roberte Femar 3 Nov 1561.
Agnes Galoway married Roberte Wrenne 23 Jan 1563.
Thomazen Galloway married Richarde Bartlett 22 Aug 1585.

I've noticed a lot of Adams in Ware registers so I intend to check them out later. My earliest Adams ancestor was William Adams, as yet I haven't found his birth/baptism. In 1724 William married Sarah Belsham at Saffron Walden Essex, their first child was William baptised 1730 at Saffron Walden and the rest of the children baptised at Gt Waltham Essex.

Saffron Walden is close to the Essex and Hertfordshire border so I wonder if...

 

[Findem]

Thomas baptised at least two children at the same place, John & Joan, both on the same day 23 Sep 1560

Before I was rudely interrupted by Ware PRs on FMP going down I noticed the burials for those two Halowell children John & Joane both baptised 23 Sep 1560, both were buried on the same day 24 Sep 1560 at Ware St Mary the Virgin.

 

[Sis]

Oh how sad!

 

[Findem]

I've noticed a lot of Adams in Ware registers so I intend to check them out later. My earliest Adams ancestor was William Adams, as yet I haven't found his birth/baptism. In 1724 William married Sarah Belsham at Saffron Walden Essex, their first child was William baptised 1730 at Saffron Walden and the rest of the children baptised at Gt Waltham Essex.

There are also goodly numbers of people with the Ad(d)ams surname who had attached to their name "of" and the name of a property, in Sawbridgeworth PRs. My Great Waltham Adams ancestors obtained a Mill and property in Gt Waltham so there had to be money in the family, I'm wondering if the early William was born in either Sawbridgeworth or Ware, coming from a line of property owning people, follow the money trail . Consequently I will be searching those places for a William Ad(d)ams 1700ish, fingers crossed


Sawbridgeworth seems to have had quite a few of the so called Gentry in it's time, there are mention in the PRs of a Baronet and his Lady wife, a few Honorables, Sirs, Ladies, Esquires and some titled Mr and Mrs. None of mine included in those categories of course.

Ware, Sawbridgeworth and Widford PRs, that's Widford in Hertfordshire, not the Widford in Essex, have been an interesting, frustrating and tiring journey. However I've enjoyed it, manged to confirm baptisms and marriages for the Franklin and associated Wilkinson and Galloway families that I sourced from Family Search, found the odd baptism that Family Search and some Ware transcripts missed. I haven't had much success with sibling marriages and burials but I'll be trying another avenue for them.

I'm now wondering if my Essex Galloway family line will eventually link up with the Herts lot, my Essex Galloways eventually became Galley.

 

[Findem]

I'm wondering if the following is a clue for my Wilkinson line, found in Sawbridgeworth PRs.

1589
Merabula ye daughter of a Londoner baptised ye 11(or 12)th day of August ye name of ye (undecipherable word) father is William Wilkinson, followed by three words I couldn't decipher.

Herts Record Office ref # D/P 98/1/1, on FMP composite 1558 - 1657 image 15 of 146.

I started to write the name Merabula down, having never seen it before, intending to find out if the modern version is something like Mirabella (however it's spelled) or perhaps Mabel(l), a little later I did see the name Mabell. Then I noticed the surname, "hey that looks like Wilkinson" which it was.

 

[MollyMay]

Well I tried to decipher those words without any success.

This is the ye ----- father


And the last 3 words

In case anyone else wants to have a try - I did wonder if the last word was 'payd' but I am not convinced.

edit: Looking at it now - could it be 'as it is payd'

 

[mugwortismy cat]

Is it 'ye childes father'?
And I also think 'as it is payd', unless it's 'as it is sayd' ... which may make a little more sense ...

 

[Findem]

Is it 'ye childes father'?

I can see it as childes father now you've mentioned it

As for the rest I'll bring up the whole image I saved a little later and see if I can fathom out if it's payd or sayd, the s in as is the same as the s in is so I think it's pretty be safe to say the first three words of that phrase are "as it is".
I'm thinking it might be sayd, perhaps the mother was visiting relatives in Sawbridgeworth whilst the father was back in London and it's the Vicar's way of saying "well I was told it was yours William". Alternatively perhaps William senior got up to mischief in Sawbridgeworth and fathered a child, there were a lot of goings on going on in Sawbridgeworth..