From: richard@ex-parrot.com   
      
   I'm posting this on the off chance that someone here might have access   
   to some database of West Riding records that they could search for a   
   Millicent BLAKEBROUGH, born or baptised say between 1750 and 1765,   
   probably in the Leeds or Dewsbury area.  I can't find anything on   
   Ancestry, Findmypast or FamilySearch.   
      
   For a bit more background, read on ...   
      
   I've recently been researching a BLAKEBROUGH family who moved from the   
   West Riding to Kidderminster, Worcs in about 1770.  The parents were   
   Abraham BLAKEBROUGH and Millicent MILNES who married Dewsbury in 1751,   
   and they were accompanied by at least two of their children, Abraham and   
   Susannah, who were baptised in Batley, near Dewsbury, in 1754 and 1756,   
   respectively.  Susannah married Thomas PALMER in Kidderminster in 1778   
   and had at least six children, while the younger Abraham married Mary   
   LANE in Claines, Worcs in 1794, and moved to London in c1805.  (Possibly   
   Mary was Abraham's second wife as he was aged about 40 when he married,   
   but I have no evidence for an earlier wife.)  I'm happy to go into the   
   evidence for the family moving from Yorkshire to Worcester to London in   
   less than 40 years, but it's fairly convincing and not particularly   
   relevant to this.   
      
   However, two other BLAKEBROUGHs appeared in Kidderminster at a similar   
   time: a Frances who married Daniel LONGMORE in 1768, and a Millicent who   
   married Thomas CARPENTER in 1780.  It is Millicent that this post is   
   about.  Thomas and Millicent CARPENTER had one child, also called   
   Millicent, born in Worcester and baptised in Martin Hussingtree, a   
   village just outside Worcester, in 1780.  This daughter moved to   
   Hampshire, but I have been unable to trace the parents after 1780.  This   
   means I have no real idea how old Millicent CARPENTER née BLAKEBROUGH   
   was, other than that she was of child-bearing age in 1780, which would   
   allow her to be born any time between a little after 1730 and about   
   1765; but probably she was aged around 20, so born c1760.  (She cannot   
   be Millicent BLAKEBROUGH née MILNES remarrying, because Abraham did not   
   die until 1784, and I have found her burial in Kidderminster with the   
   surname BLAKEBROUGH.)   
      
   As there we no other BLAKEBROUGHs in Worcestershire at the time (nor any   
   variants like BLAGBROUGH, which later became common in the county), it's   
   seems probable that Millicent CARPENTER née BLAKEBROUGH was a child of   
   Abraham and Millicent; but even if she wasn't, I'm sure she was a close   
   relative – a niece, for example.  Either way, I would be surprised if   
   she wasn't born in the West Riding.  I'm hoping someone can help me   
   locate her baptism.   
      
   Richard   
      
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