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Angela

Angela Report 17 Feb 2009 22:59

thankyou gwyn ,much appreciated , angela

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 17 Feb 2009 22:53

There is a registered one name study of that surname.
You can contact the researcher here

http://www.one-name.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?find=3460

Perhaps he knows of your chap.

Gwyn

Angela

Angela Report 17 Feb 2009 22:29

thankyou joan , i'll just need to try other avenues , angela

Angela

Angela Report 17 Feb 2009 22:01

thankyou mgnv & sylvia , much appreciated . i was hoping he was unusual as i can't find anything about him prior to 1771! angela

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 17 Feb 2009 21:28

there could well have been a vicar in their village who had the children learning to read and write, at least minimally.



sylvia

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My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

mgnv

mgnv Report 17 Feb 2009 20:33

The first tabulation of people signing marr registers I've seen is for 1838, and then Dorset males do well with 79.6% signing (59.5% Dorset females), cf Beds males 45.4% signing. So there's a large variability across the country and, since I think education was organized at the parish level, rather than the county level, I'm sure there was a fair amount of variability within a county too. There was a large church influence in education. In protestant parts of Scotland, where it was thought necessary for people to be able to read the bible, one finds signing rates in 1855 (when civil registration began there) of 100% for males in two (small) Scottish counties (KRS, SEL), and even 100% and 92% for females in those 2 counties.

http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/PageBrowser?path=Browse/Registrar%20General%20(by%20date)/1836-1840&active=yes&mno=462&tocstate=expandnew&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=13&zoom=4

Angela

Angela Report 17 Feb 2009 16:07

thankyou gwyn , yes mine signed a bastardy bond and marr banns , wasn't sure if he may have been educated , thanks again angela

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 17 Feb 2009 16:02

Are you going by whether or not they signed at marriage etc?
One of mine married in 1792 and made his mark with a X although his wife signed.
I think for some people, they could sign their name....and that was it.

My ag labs other than the above man could all sign their name I think.
Whether they were literate....I don't know for most of them.

Gwyn

Angela

Angela Report 17 Feb 2009 15:56

hi , `please can anyone tell me how usual/unusual it was for an ag lab in 1771 ,from a small village, to be able to read and write ?this is my brick wall ancestor in this part of my tree and i'm trying to find out as much as poss about him to try and find where he came from . richard champ 1745c dorset . thankyou , angela