Is there an alternative for the name "Deliah"

[chrisaaaaa]

I am tentatively following a branch of my family up thru Cumberland/Westmorland.

I am a little flummoxed at a point which on the face of it looks promising, with a Deliah (surname unknown) who married a Mr Stephenson (first name unknown) around 1800, they had at least one child, Jane (b 1812 in Beetham, Westmorland, England).

I can see the name across 4 generations coming forward, but nothing going backward.

There are a lot of Dinahs etc, so I was wondering could Deliah be some kind of regional variant of a more common name?

[deebel]

1841  Census
Storth, Beetham, Kendal, Westmorland, England

William   Bush   Male   45   1796    Born Westmorland
Deliah   Stephenson   Female   70   1771   Born Warwickshire,
Ann   Cowin   Female   15   1826    Born Warwickshire

Is this the person?

[lizdb]

I would say Delia or Deililah would be more common spellings, most probably all variants from the same.

Not that thre exact spelling of a name meant anything once you get back to the sort of era you are at!

[Kay99]

They possibly had other children including William 1807 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NY3D-GQC and  Mary  1800  https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NY3D-GQC
Father Christopher

Kay

[Kay99]

A marriage in 1793??  https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NJVT-JJV

[chrisaaaaa]

@deebel - could be, in 1851 she turns up as a mother-in-law, born in Bampton, Cumberland. I pulled up the page you have there - or at least the Ancestry version, I cannot see where you get Warwickshire, it just has 'n' for out of county.

@lizdb, they seemed pretty consistent, there is one born in 1870 baptized as the more normal "Delilah".

@kay99, I'll take it, that looks close enough thhat it should have come up when I did a search for Janes siblings - sometimes Ancestry needs a good shove to find the obvious!

Thanks All.

[deebel]

Findmypast has Birth place as Warwickshire in the transcription for both Deliah and Ann Cowin. The image of the record as you say only says N not from this County

[chrisaaaaa]

I wonder if the FindMyPast entry is a user annotation or some strange automated transcription error?

I pulled in the kids William and Mary and an earlier John in 1797 (father "Chr") which makes the 1793 marriage look a bit more likely, it was looking too early otherwise.

However I still cannot find a baptism for Jane in 1812, I cannot find a record for a sibling Christopher either which would be typical.

There is a 1794 Thos son of Thos and Delila in Beetham, which makes me wonder if Thos is some transcription error of Christopher, the Thos and Delila pair did not seem to have anymore children.

Jane only seemed to have two boys, so no Christopher to help add confidence.

[JenB]

Findmypast has Birth place as Warwickshire in the transcription for both Deliah and Ann Cowin. The image of the record as you say only says N not from this County

It seems that everything marked 'N' is coming up as birthplace Warwickshire on FindMyPast at the moment.
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