Genealogy Chat

Len... Strange... Can't find your Granddad 'Edwin' in 1881 on Ancestry, tried LDS .... this is' Charles' Bolt visiting with your Alice!! .... ..... where was baby William ?? Household Record 1881 British Census Household: Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation Disability Martha Jane PIERCY Head W Female 56 Portishead, Somerset, England Restaurant Keeper Edith W. PIERCY Dau U Female 27 Hull, York, England Assistant To Restaurant Keeper Paul PERRINS Visitor M Male 39 Paris BS, France Lay Deacon (Scrip R) Charles BOLT Visitor M Male 24 Blandford, Dorset, England Commission Agent Alice M. BOLT Visitor M Female 24 Langport, Somerset, England Source Information: Dwelling 36 Up Maudlin St Census Place Bristol St James In, Gloucester, England Family History Library Film 1341596 Public Records Office Reference RG11 Piece / Folio 2475 / 60 Page Number 5 Babz

To briefly take the conversation back to the two christian names issue, I too have someone whose birth, censuses and death show a short form of a name, but a longer, more formal version appears on the marriage cert. In my case it is my grandma who was named after a succesful race horse called Lily Agnes! As that is what her birth and baptism were both registered with it was her official name, and she was always known as Lily in the family. However she married as Lilian, so like your dad it was a case of lengthening her official name rather than shortening it. In nan's case I think it may have been because she had been in service in a gentleman's club where her employer decided to call her Lilian, or I suppose it may have been an attempt to impress the in laws :-)

Judith, you'll never know lol My Aunt Ethel, never used her first name either, She liked her middle name better than her first. Eventually dropped her first name altogether. No wonder we have problems finding them! Babz:-)

Len I'm certain this is the birth for 'William E Bolt' (Edwin and Alice' first born) But ....I cannot find baby William in the 1881 census! England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983 Name: William Edward Bolt Year of Registration: 1880 Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun District: Hendon County: Greater London, Middlesex Volume: 3a Page: 155 Babz

Len, While I was looking for William.... This is Alice Matilda Baulch' Father Edward, before she was born in 1856, before Edward married Harriet Barnard? With Edwards parents John and Alice Baulch. 1851 England Census Name: Edward Baulch Age: 26 Estimated birth year: abt 1825 Relation: Son Father's name: John Mother's name: Alice Gender: Male Where born: Langport, Somerset, England Civil parish: Langport Town: Langport County/Island: Somerset Country: England Street address: Registration district: Langport Sub-registration district: Somerton ED, institution, or vessel: 5a Neighbors: View others on page Household schedule number: 63 Household Members: Name Age John Baulch 54 Estimated birth year: abt 1797 Relation: Head Where born: Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset, England Alice Baulch 53 Estimated birth year: abt 1798 Relation: Wife Where born: Combe St Nicholas, Somerset, England Sarah Baulch 28 Where born: Langport, Somerset, England Edward Baulch 26 Where born: Langport, Somerset, England <<< Eliza Baulch 23 Where born: Langport, Somerset, England Frederick Baulch 21 Where born: Langport, Somerset, England Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 1926; Folio: 339; Page: 16; GSU roll: 221083. Babz