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Ancestors surnames different on census to parish b
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Elaine | Report | 10 Jul 2006 07:06 |
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Hi all, 'Fuzzy Feeling' 'Gillian' 'Salty Brine' Elaine Morley' and 'Jennifer Wright' In regards to my query, I posted last night, below. Has anyone else had this problem. It appears that my ancestors are under a different name on the early census's than the surname on the parish birth registers. I am puzzled, as to who I really am, now! After trawling the areas all of Much Woolton and Little Woolton districts on the 1841 - 1851 - 1861 - 1871 census's, I have not been able to find my ancestors under their name of Isley, Iseley, or any other close match for the name. I have parish records of the births of children under these names, dating back to 1790's. The closest matches I have is for the name Collins, which was the (olim) name of one of the parents, the mother. where to go from here??? any suggestions?? Elaine. Elaine. |
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*** Fuzzy | Report | 10 Jul 2006 07:42 |
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Hi elaine, This has happened to me too!! On the parish register the surname is McKill and on the census the surname is McGill I am assuming that the vicar was a bit hard of hearing and wrote it down as he thought it was spelt. I am also given to understand that as a lot of people could not read or write they would not notice that the name had been written down incorrectly. It is also a possibility that the census is the wrong spelling as the names were taken by emunerators who often did not come from that part of the country, and if there was an accent he did not understand then mistakes happened. Fuzzy x |
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Phoenix | Report | 10 Jul 2006 08:55 |
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Hi Elaine You can find a huge variation in some names, depending on who is writing it down, and for what purpose. When the Scottish land agent was enumerator for the little village in Norfolk where many of my ancestors lived, there were lots of variations, which disappeared ten years later when a local man took over the job (and handed a copy to the vicar, who used it as the basis of a visiting book) When I am looking for some families in the GRO indexes, it is only from the 1870s that I can be relatively confident that the surname is fixed. |
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Salty | Report | 10 Jul 2006 09:29 |
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How does Wells to wallis and Wallace grab you. Rod |
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ElaineM | Report | 10 Jul 2006 09:34 |
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I have this problem too, I have Douglas on all census with birth cert showing Douglas as a second christian name and Conquer as surname. I can't work this one out either!!! I need to buy a few more certs to find out what's going on!! Elaine |
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Jennifer | Report | 10 Jul 2006 09:46 |
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I have a more extreme example, baptising children under the correct name SWEETLOVE in the Parish Register's, at the same time going under the name of WINFIELD in all the census. There is no apparent reason for the change, I know it is the same family because other members of the family show up with them in the different census years. Jennifer |
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