CJCLDS Register for Laughton

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This Page Last Updated on Saturday February 07, 2009

MORMON REGISTER (CJCLDS)

Information posted on the site at http://www.laughton.com also directed me to the site where the long lists of births, baptisms and marriages are posted for the LAUGHTON'S as prepared by the Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of the Later-day Saints). The births and baptisms are 69 pages and the marriages are 17 pages. Some of these go back into the 1600's so perhaps we can trace Gilbert's line if we can find a link. Check here if you want to find a different name on the CJCLDS Registry.

	main site for "Orkney Genealogy": http://www.cursiter.com/
	go here and look for "Laughton": http://www.cursiter.com/pages/indices.htm

We have identified the following information that relates to our Laughton clan and then updated the genealogy chart to show the dates that became available from this information. To start, we have looked only at the entries for "Holm and Paplay" and thus there may be more information where the marriage or birth took place outside this Parish.

In February 2009 we became aware of a powerful new search engine called the "Family Search - Pilot Site" which is operated by the LDS as well. Many new family members were identified with this site search in Canada, in the United States and as well in Scotland. This is an excellent tool to be used by any genealogist or family tree enthusiast:

LDS Family Search Pilot Project

Here for example are the results found for the 1900 "Twelfth Census of the United States" for the John Laughton family members living in Niagara Falls, New York:

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As some of the information may not have been previously available, we may be able to use this to find more answers to such questions "Which Gilbert Laughton is our ancestor?" and perhaps even to go back one further generation. For all of those that look at these charts, please consider what you think may have been the correct answer and send me you comments.

The information that follows is what was collected with the LDS Cursiter web site and does not yet include any additions, updates or corrections from the LDS Pilot Project:

MARRIAGES

The master document from the Cursiter web site for marriages has been saved to this site as an Adobe PDF page. It is available here as CJCLDS Marriages. In most cases we did not know the dates of these marriages prior to finding this web site.

	page 3: David Laughton and Margaret Laughton married December 12, 1867
	page 9: Jane Laughton and William Sinclair married December 10, 1857
	page 12: a possible date of July 11, 1824 for John Laughton and Jean Spence (not in Holm & Paplay but St. Andrews) as the date does agree in principle with birth of Elizabeth a year later (see below).

BIRTHS & BAPTISMS

The master document from the Cursiter web site for births and baptisms has been saved to this site as an Adobe PDF page. It is available here as CJCLDS Births & Baptisms.

	page 12: David Laughton, December 9, 1869 a son to David Laughton and Margaret Laughton, who wed on December 12, 1867 (see above)
	page 16: Elizabeth Laughton, May 23, 1825 a daughter to John Laughton and Jane Spence (see above possible marriage)
	page 19: a number of listings for Gilbert Laughton (Laughtan) in the 1771-1775 era, as noted in Paul Laughton's genealogy chart, so there remains some question (note: only two of the Gilbert Laughton's in the 1771 time frame had fathers named Gilbert
	page 26: James Laughton, October 23, 1803 a son to Gilbert Laughton and Margaret Miller and brother to our chain under John Laughton so I guess that makes him our "Great, Great, Great, Great Uncle"
	page 31: Jane Laughton, July 19, 1828 a daughter to John Laughton and Jane Spence
	page 34: Jorome Laughton (not "Jerome"), November 1834 a son to John Laughton and Jane Spence
	page 34: John Laughton (the first of the "John's" in the list) so our Grandfather Laughton to the 4th power, from Gilbert Laughton and Margaret Miller on April 30, 1801
	page 35: John Laughton (the second "John") who is listed as being born on August 21, 1829 (Paul's list says August 15, 1829) a son to John Laughton and Jane Spence
	page 47: Margaret Laughton, April 9, 1806 (a new date) daughter to Gilbert Laughton and Margaret Miller, so our only know Great Aunt to the 4th power!
	page 48: the second Margaret Laughton, December 17, 1826 a daughter to John Laughton and Jane Spence so Great Aunt Margaret to the 3rd power
	page 51: Mary Laughton, May 2, 1836, a daughter to John Laughton and Jane Spence, so another Great Aunt to the 3rd, but not other known information (may have married or died outside of the Parish of Holm & Paplay)
	page 58: Sarah Laughton, May 15, 1833, another daughter to Jane Spence and John Laughton and for sure the "Great, Great. Great, Great, Great Aunt" (Great Aunt to the 5th power) to Sarah Anne Laughton (June 16, 1981)
	page 59: Thomas Laughton, April 7, 1831 a son to John Laughton and Jane Spence, so we need to change the genealogy chart from 1832

As time permits, we will look at the other Parish records to see if there is a match to any of the "known Laughton names" to those that we did not find in these Holm & Paplay records.

A link from the UK & Ireland Genealogy site also lead us to a web page where you can locate the nearest family history centre of the CJCLDS, with facilities located around the world (search here for the one close to you). The web site indicates that the family research centres are open to all people, however times are set and they are generally within CJCLDS facilities.

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