General Chat

Could it be a old/misspelling of Siston/Sistern/Sisterstrom?

My Suffolk Cattermoles began life (in the 1500's) as Kackermoulles. It was only because we were privy to the church records that we could see the change in the spelling over the years.
Kackermoulle
Kackermoll
Catermull
Cattermulle
Cattermole

(and various spellings in between!!)
So X & Y Kackermoulle gave birth to a Z Kackermoll
Z Kackermoll married as Z Catermull - you get the drift.

As the proletariat couldn't (on the whole) read and write, it all hinged on how the family pronounced the name, how 'thick' their accent was, and how vicar thought the name was spelt!!

Don't forget, an ancestor with a speech defect leads to a lot of sideways research!! :-

Both my grandsons are tongue tied, one has a lisp, the other, until recently couldn't pronounce an 'L', so asking them to say the word 'Liaison' produced two totally different sounds/words (yes, I am an evil granny :-0) neither of which was 'Liaison'!

Also, having moved around a bit, (and with a mother who had - as my gran would say had 'aims above her station'), both my sister and I are 'picked up' on our pronunciation of certain words - tarpaulin being one :-S

The T is from the surname TURNER but I did think this could be sister ......in the words of Quantum Leap ...Oh boy


The thing about this document it was done by an individual for a separate website using Roots to host the website...Roots now have the website. So there is no tweaking the page. I wish I had seen this before I went to Eckington Library and I would have checked it out.

Do you think Phebe's name might be a variation of either of these further up page?

10/5/1825 William John & Matilda SESTERN Mosbro Lab
21/2/1841 George Wm & Ann SESTON Eckington Lab
25/8/1844 Eliza Ann Wm & Ann SESTON Eckington

Hi
I think it is an N which then reads
Phebe Sistern.
Hope that helps
Ann

I think having zoomed it to 200% that it is sistern with an n

Sisterr - enhance the magnification by holding down Ctrl and tapping +
Sister then what it probably another r.
Compare an n from a later entry - if it was an n, then wouldnt the abutting T be thicker?

EDIT - ignore that. Further magnification is deffinately SisterN as others have said

Looks like SisteRN to me.

If you scroll a bit further down you find Amy - the m looks different to the r n in Sistern.

Looks like sistern to me Uzzi <3

or a family secret ?

Can somebody check this page for me
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ridgeway/Eckington%20Baptisms%20Q%20R%20S%20T.htm

scroll down to the bottom of the Turners and there is William b and bap 1818 to George and Phebe Siste ? Illig Eckington

what is the rest of the Sist because there are no Phoebe Siste? around and George not only had a sister Phoebe but also a sister in law :-0

OH thinks it´s an M under the TU I thought M or N