Genealogy Chat

Jonesy my mother was the same as your grandmother, signed the pledge and never ever touched alcohol, even, as you say, in trifle. We did consider it a victory when we managed to get her into a pub for a meal, pointing out to her that nobody had horns in there.

My dad's cousin married a Susanna (that's how she signed the register, but the minister wrote Susannah in the body of the entry).

My wife never made trifles with sherry, either. (She reckoned it diluted the brandy.)

Morning Alan,

I don't know whether the Rechabites Society is still in business but I think that they may be. In West Bromwich there is a painted sign on a building standing on the corner of High St and Sandwell Rd which has the societies name on it.

I watched a television programme last night (Ian Hislop's Do-Gooders) which talked about the temperance movement. My maternal grandmother born in 1885 signed the pledge when she was just 5 years old and to the best of my knowledge never took a drop of alcohol during her lifetime. She would not even eat trifle unless assured that it did not contain Sherry.

Her ideals however did not pass on to her grandson. ;-)

Good Morning 'Jonesey'
One lives and learns; I did look at Biblical names on a Site but couldnt find a match.

Rechab is the name of three men in the Bible.

Possibly an adopted name of a member of the Rechabites Friendly Society which was a temperance movement established in 1835.

I have been transcribing for a few years now and come across many different ways of spelling the same name. A case in point is in an 1859 baptism where the child's name is 'Sushanna'......it could be the way The Family want it spelt but my guess is that the clerk wrote what he thought the spelling should be.
Another occassional problem is an unusual name; 'Rechab' in this instance as the Christian name of the father.
I have no idea what the name is but it's clearly written.