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How can I find out for sure?
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Unknown | Report | 25 Jun 2006 15:53 |
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How can you prove it? Well, I'm a bit lost between the chap whose dad is called Johannis and the one whose dad is John Frederick. But you could look for the father on the 1901 census? nell |
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Katherine | Report | 25 Jun 2006 15:15 |
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Hi Sylvia,thanks for responding, on my grandads marriage cert he is aged 22, his father John Frederick (mining engineer) is deceased . I found a Johannis V D V. born 1905 in Leith, the father is also called Johannis (merchant navy). In Scotland, it was not unusual to use family names as middle names, so Mountford might be a family name. I would dearly love to add him to my tree but I just don't know how I can prove he belongs to me. It's so frustrating. Thanks again Kate |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 20 Jun 2006 13:09 |
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Johannis is merely the latin form of John. It SUGGESTS, that he was Roman Catholic, as by 1905, Anglican Vicars were not usually recording baptisms in Latin. Olde Crone |
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Sylvia | Report | 20 Jun 2006 10:39 |
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Hi Katherine, without getting the cert. you cant be sure. However, it is a rather unusual name. Looks Dutch/SouthAfrican? I would say it more than likely is your man who changed his name to John to be more ' British' dont know where the Mountford came from, maybe he wanted to impress the future wife? You can call yourself anything you like,its perfectly legal, unless you are intending to defraud. I would go for it! Regards Sylvia. |
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Katherine | Report | 20 Jun 2006 10:05 |
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Hi there, I've posted on this board before requesting info on John Mountford Van der Velde. J.M.V D V died in 1935 aged 30. He would have been bornin 1905(if death age is right) I can't find a birth in England for the right year, but I found a Johannis V D V born 1905 in Edingburgh. The fathers name is also Johannis which is on J.M.wedding cert. Can anyone help. |
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