Genealogy Chat

Polly-poppet and Rose,

You are little darlings, many thanks for that. I am sure it will be the talk of my husbands family to have such an "odd" name comeing onto the family

Regards

Kathlyn

From IGI:

REBECCA BOULDSTRIDGE
Female

Event(s):
Birth:
Christening: 24 JUL 1828 Old Church, Saint Pancras, London, England

Parents:
Father: THOMAS BOULDSTRIDGE
Mother: REBECCA

Rose

hi found this thought it might help

Recorded in several forms including Bolstridge, Bouldstridge, and Bouldstridge, this is an English locational surname. It originates from a place whose pre 7th century Olde English spelling may have been 'Bula's ridge' or similar, a personal name fairly widely recorded in ancient times, and believed to have been tribal. Alternatively a more simple explanation would have been the 'bulls ridge', perhaps an area specifically set aside for the more dangerous animals. Sadly no such place now appears in any of the gazetters, nor has done for at least two hundred years according to our research. We are therefore left with the proposition that this surname like an estimated five thousand other British surnames, derives from a 'lost' medieval village, of which the only reminder in the 20th century, is the surving surname in its various spellings.

I am researching my husbands mothers line and have found that James Bevan, married a Rebecca Bouldstridge in 1850.

Needing a little breather from the Bevan side I decided to go down Rebecca`s Bouldstridge line. In the 1851 census, Rebeccas states that she was born in Clerkenwell in about 1833 but I have only been able to find one other Bouldstridge in that approx area, and I suppose it could possibly be Rebecca`s brother !!!!

I have tried other census years but not had much luck. Is the name "English"??