Did your people live in or travel through Derbyshire? There’s now a free online index of baptisms, marriages and burials, from 1538-1910, to help you track them down, just launched on FamilySearch.
We love the reference to Ligna Vitae Boswell, daughter of Josias and Hannah Boswell, baptised 30 June 1811 at Elmton with Cresswell.
Ligna Vitae is Latin for ‘tree of life’ but perhaps Mum and Dad just liked the sound of it. Or the vicar simply wrote down what he thought he’d heard at the font.
