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Linda

Linda Report 12 Nov 2007 12:10

hi does anyone know of variants for the name berry
thankyou
linda

Historyman

Historyman Report 12 Nov 2007 12:22

Hi Linda,
I have just looked on The Guild of one-name studies but unfortunately no person has registered Berry. If you go onto this site, (Genes re-united) click Search Trees and then put Berry surname only. The drop down section will immediately show possible variants.
You could also contact a few of the Berry researchers, and pose the same question to them.
Remember when most people could not read or write names were recorded "as heard".
Hope this helps

Linda

Linda Report 12 Nov 2007 12:26

thankyou so much i will try your tips
regards linda

Michael

Michael Report 12 Nov 2007 13:19

The thing you need to bear in mind as well Linda is that it may not be a common variant you are looking for but a miss-hearing, misspelling or a transcription error (from form to form or form to database).

I have names like Wright indexed as Bight and Clark as Cain. Just try wild cards or whatever you can think of.

Also post corrections when you can.

maryjane-sue

maryjane-sue Report 12 Nov 2007 15:20

If you know the persons first name, approx year of birth and place - quite often they can be found in the census just using that info in the search box.

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 12 Nov 2007 15:55

From British Origins. This is free to search......

http://www.britishorigins.com/

Enter 'Berry' as the last name.....Click search

The next page says Search criteria: Last name 'Berry' + close varients.

If you click on close varients you get the following................

berry
Berrye
Bierry
Birry
Berrey
Beury
Berye
Barry
Beerry
Beery
Behry
Beiry
Beary
Berey
Bewry
Burry
Berrry
Berryo
Berrys
Bery
Berri
Bewrey
Birrye
Bearye
Beerey
Barrye
Baarry
Barrry
Bbarry
Bearey
Burrye
Bewrye
Beriy
Beory
Beryo
Berys
Beryy
Biry
Bory
Berrie
Berr
Bearry
Be''Ery
Bary
Bierey
Bury



Chris

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Julie

Julie Report 12 Nov 2007 16:01

Linda

I was helping someone the other day who had a Berry, and found them as Bury...Oops i think it might of been you lol

Julie

Linda

Linda Report 12 Nov 2007 18:19

thanks all for your help
regards linda

Joan

Joan Report 13 Nov 2007 08:52

I have Berry,Bury, Barry and Berrey
Joan

Julie

Julie Report 13 Nov 2007 15:45

Hi Linda, I knew someone whos name was shortened from bernadette to berry... hope this helps.. Kind regards
Julie