Genealogy Chat

in 1871 my family spelt their name wear but in 1881 its weare which was my maiden name any ideas why

If it was on the census then the enumerator may have spelt it how he thought and not how it should have been. I suppose that a conscientious person would have asked for the correct spelling but then sometimes our ancestors couldn't read and write so may not have known

My Overs were from Oxfordshire..... I can only find them as sometimes Hovers.. I have been told that in rural parts even today....they add an 'H' to words and names that begin with a vowel I wonder why they diddnt call Oxford Hoxford then?...lol Lynne It's accents also iliteracy. (bit like me, cant spell that lol) Gerri x

If this info is from the census, that may just be the assumed spelling of their name, by the enumerator. Do you have any BMD certificates for any of your Weare ancestors? How was it spelt? Sam

Lynne Spelling variations occur on most of my relatives' records. I have Smoothy for all certs and censuses, but Smoothey in the street directories. I have Chowns as Chownes and Chowndes, Mealing as Melin/Malin and Gerrance (first name) as Garrance on a cert. It depends who wrote it down and whether or not it was checked. nell

Lynne Like the others on this thread, my Holdens have been spelled in 27 different ways ...so far.... Marjorie

I've two in my families where extra e's appear Bettridge / Betteridge, Goldthorp / Goldthorpe Don't forget that even up the the midde of the 1800's most people were illiterate and wouldn't have know how their name was spelled. Peter

Adding e's seemed to be a common thing years ago. I'n my tree I have: Osborn, Osborne, Osbourn, Osbourne and I've been tould it can also be spelt: Osburn, Osburne, Born, Borne, Bourn, Bourne, Burn, Burne, and I'm sure other variations existed.

I'm an expert on surname spelling gone wrong!!!!! LOL My surname is MORRLLE so imagine how that's been spelt!!! way back and today!! I've got allsorts of variants in my tree ranging from MORALLE to MORLEY to MORALLEE and so on........................... Sarah (proud to be one of a handful of MORRLLE's!!!!)

My wife's grandma comes up on records as both Maud and Maude.