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KathyM
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Has anyone found many instances of people being baptised a name to the one given on the birth certificate.
Here's a family story -
One baby was taken to the church and when the vicar asked for her name he was told 'Hazel'.....which was already on her birth certificate.
'Oh No!' said the vicar 'There are all the Saints in the Heavens and you wish to call your child after a NUT!'
"I will baptise this child Elizabeth after our own dear Queen'.......and did!
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~~~~~~~~ Census transcriptions Crown Copyright, www.NationalArchives.gov.ukArdill, Bourke/Burke, Bellwood, Bridge, Cain, Church, Cragg, Dennell, Dunning, Gough, Haslam, Holmes, Jessop, Kidson/Kitson, Knowles, Markwick, Martin, Munden, Nickerson, Robinson, Seddon, Whittle, Varley & Walpole. Areas: Yorkshire, Lancashire, Norfolk, Marylebone & Tipperary |
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KathyM
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I think there are problems like that in most families...I have and Ann Elizabeth Robinson.... or Ann E Robinson.....who we believe never married...but was always called Annie...
It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
A member of the family has a postcard photograph of her in Scarborough...he thinks she went to live there.....I think she was probably on a trip to the coast!
Also, my Gran said she had relatives in Ashby de la Zouche ....I have never found a connection and think Ann(ie) could fit in this gap!.....but do you know how many Ann Robinsons there are !....this is certainly my weakest link!
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~~~~~~~~ Census transcriptions Crown Copyright, www.NationalArchives.gov.ukArdill, Bourke/Burke, Bellwood, Bridge, Cain, Church, Cragg, Dennell, Dunning, Gough, Haslam, Holmes, Jessop, Kidson/Kitson, Knowles, Markwick, Martin, Munden, Nickerson, Robinson, Seddon, Whittle, Varley & Walpole. Areas: Yorkshire, Lancashire, Norfolk, Marylebone & Tipperary |
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Hackstaple
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I read today about children being baptised twice. It is probable that the first baptism was in a non-conformist church and the second one in the C of E as non-conformist marriages, baptisms etc had no legal basis at one time.
The other reason was marriages between CofE and Roman Catholic. They would take the child to a different area to be baptised for the second time in the other church.
That should make everything as clear as mud 
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa. Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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JeannieR
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Thank Goodness some one else is having the same problem!!
I thought I was going mad
I have been looking for my gran, Sarah Hughes for over two years. I have been SO exasperated, I discarded one family many times, because there was no Sarah.
On the 1881/1891 census' she is Sissy and Ciss!!!
It was only in the 1901 census that her proper name was used, fortunately, all her siblings were still at home, so I knew it was the same family......and then the penny dropped, I have finally got her birth certificate, verifying every thing.
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Harrison, From Bishopthorpe and York
Horsman, Nelson from Old Malton and Scarborough
Calvert, Leach, Foster and Garlick from Leeds
Mc Aullife/Mc Couliffe, Middlesborough
Taylor, Coulthard .Cumberland.
Hardy, Belbin , Jenkins, Knight . Dorset.Hampshire
Hughes, Taylor, Powell, Podmore. Hawarden.
Hughes, Bradshaw, Niblock, Liverpool.
Dagwell. Middlesex , Liverpool
Livrerpool
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Darcy
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Searching for little needles in big haystacks
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My grandfather was known by one and all as 'George' and I believed that to be his name. My cousin George was named after him.
I now have all Grandad's certificates and census information and George Shepherd never existed. His name was Sydney......
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Fisher, Pitts, Lucas, Emmit, Keal, Bennett, Maddock, Jackson, Pidd, Lincolnshire Bullock, Read, White, Gloucestershire. Shepherd, Foyle, Crowter, Green, Wiltshire Strickland, Fisher, Butterworth, Brown, Northhamptonshire Shepherd, Bullock, Waterhouse, Lancashire Fisher, Goodwin, Rutland Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Bee
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Wm & Sarah Ellis - 1916
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I too had an Uncle Dick, I always assumed it tobe Richard til I found his obituary and he's really called Arthur
Also Aunt Sadie turned out to be Sarah Jane and Aunt Cissie was Lucy.
It's no wonder we get confused
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Dinsdale, Ellis, Gee, Goldsmith,Green,Hawks,Holmes, Lacey, Longhorn, Pickersgill, Quantrill,Tuthill, Tuttle & Walker, in E & W Yorks, Lincs, Norfolk & Suffolk. Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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but i bet it caused a bit of an uproar!
