Genealogy Chat

Hi Angela i have 3 hyphenated surnames 1st addison jones this came about when my grandfather william middle name addison jones left his first wife and instead of using jones he added his middle name making it surname addison jones. the 2nd was tunstall birkbeck this was two surnames maiden of wife and surname of husband, at first i thought my gr gr grandmother had wed twice not the case. 3rd was ann tunstall jones formerly tunstall birkbeck yet her children didn't have the tunstall in their surname. i found the tunstall birkbeck by using 1 the census and 2 this site does 10 searches at once http://www[.]rat[.]de/kuijsten/navigator/uk/index[.]html remove the brackets it does all countries you choose hope it helps sandra

In my case there are some Shelley-Fishers (may be connected but not confirmed) on FreeBMD and several of my male ancestors had the middle name Shelley and surname Fisher. I had a stroke of luck when checking the 1841 census for the address given on the birth certificate of my great great grandfather (1846). There was an entry for John Shelley with Fisher obviously added as a correction. Parish records revealed he was christened along with all his siblings in 1820 as the son of Sarah Shelley *single woman*. So now I have to search for where the Fisher came from !

There was a double surname in my family in the 1800s. It began with an illegitimate child who was known by his dad's and mum's surnames together. He married and had a large family, some children christened with one surname, some with the other and some with both. Then some of them who were christened with one surname used both when they married so it's probably a good idea to look for each name alone and also the two combined. Heather

FreeBMD has a number from 1883 on, and none at all before that. First two to marry are Frank 1883 and George 1885. In the 1881 census, George was George Hodson Walker without the hyphen, and his son may also have had Hodson as a middle name. Looks like a case where a family middle name turned into a hyphenated surname. But Frank seems to have been previously just plain Frank Hodson. Maybe his father was George's brother, dropped the Walker and used his middle name as a surname. Maybe they were half brothers. The answers are out there

You could just keep tracing back until you find a marriage between a Hodson and a Walker

http://www.britishancestry.*org/articles.php?year=2003&month=6&id=2 But I don't think it will help you in your search

I am at a complete loss! I am trying to find out when Hodson- Walker first came into use but don't know what to do. I have scant information for 3 generations.