Genealogy Chat

Thank you SomersetGirl for giving my brain a shake. I will get a birth certificate for one of the children and that will tell me if I have the right marriage certificate.

I'm pretty sure I've got the right Smiths in the censuses, just a bit confused by the David/Daniel question mark. There are several names that re-occur over the generations, such as Sydney and Miranda. Also the men seemed to have a tradition of working on the railways.

I did find my great grandfather, also David mistranscibed as Daniel on the 1881 but in this case the image is David.

Many Thanks

Pam

That's certainly a possibility, the image is definitely Daniel and there's a David on the same page which is very clear.

It still leaves me with the problem of whether I've got the right marriage certificate, that clearly says Daniel, father Isaac and there doesn't appear to be a David/Mary Anne marriage in the right time frame. She was also from Gloucester so it's unlikely that they married out of the county.

Pam

Hi Pam,

I would think it's a copying error by the enumerator. If you look at the original image, the man next door is called Daniel so I think he's just made a mistake when transferring the data to his sheets. If everything else fits, then I would assume you've got the right person.

janice

In every census my great x 2 grandfather is entered as David Smith, born c1830 in Barnwood, Gloucestershire apart from the 1871 where he is Daniel. His wife is always shown as Mary Anne and their first child was born in 1852 also in Barnwood.

Searching for a marriage between a Smith and a Mary Ann in Gloucestershire c1850 gave me an 1850 marriage between a Daniel Smith and a Mary Ann Harris. The certificate gives David/Daniels father as an Isaac and sure enough on IgI is an 1829 baptism of David Smith, father Isaac in Barnwood.

With Smith being such an awful name to research I'd be interested to hear what others think. Am I right in assuming that David and Daniel are one and the same?

Pam