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unusual surname!!

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Unknown

Unknown Report 28 Jun 2006 22:59

Babydoll www.familysearch.org is free. Just put Barchou in the surname searchbox. www.ancestry*co.uk is a subscription service - but some bmds are free, though you need to register. You can see the same bmds free on Freebmd - google for the address. You could also try searching for Bar* as the -chou bit is probably the most likely to be incorrectly recorded. But the most effective way is to start with you and work your way back with certificates to 1901. If you can't find any people on 1901 you could try putting relevant names on the REcords office board here for people to look - or you might assume that the Barchou name is foreign and the family came over to England AFTER 1901. nell

Mandy in Wiltshire

Mandy in Wiltshire Report 28 Jun 2006 22:12

Hi Babydoll I was just having a very quick browse before closing down, and this intrigued me so I've done a bit of googling and asking Jeeves! There seems to be quite a number of mentions of Baron Barchou de Penhoen, and I've put one of the links below in case it might be of interest (remember to remove brackets). http://www.classicsarchive(.)com/G/books/Gobseck_-_Honore_de_Balzac/ Mandy :)

Babydoll

Babydoll Report 28 Jun 2006 22:01

thankyou nell. but how do i access this please. im nbot very good at this. thanks

Unknown

Unknown Report 28 Jun 2006 21:57

Ancestry has these results for a Barchou search: England & Wales, Birth Index: 1984-2004 12 England & Wales, Death Index: 1984-2004 5 England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1983 19 England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1983 6 England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1983 6 England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1984-2004 14 If you take into account alternative spellings/mistranscriptions etc there are probably more. www.familysearch.org has 3 London baptisms and one in Copenhagen on the IGI. nell

Babydoll

Babydoll Report 28 Jun 2006 21:56

grampa jim. where did you find that info? i need to go have a look for myself. thankyou

Unknown

Unknown Report 28 Jun 2006 21:53

there were 11 (presumably adult) Barchous in 2002.

Babydoll

Babydoll Report 28 Jun 2006 21:52

hi kathleen. i ahve done that already and i have written to all of them but nothing has come back. i have tried looking on the census and there doesnt seem to be that name any where. what can i do now?

Right said Fred

Right said Fred Report 28 Jun 2006 21:49

sounds foreign to me!

KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 28 Jun 2006 21:49

If you put the surname into the quick search box at the top of the page there are 36 results for the name. Kath. x

Babydoll

Babydoll Report 28 Jun 2006 21:47

is there anybody out there that has heard of the surname BARCHOU? i have searched and searched but it seems that there has never been a surname like this. not even close to it. can anyone enlighten me please?