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Re: Is this name Rees?
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 23 July 14 21:50 BST (UK) »
No - that says he's a "Ship-carpenter"!

There's a possible other R as the initial of the officiating cleric.  I'm going to try scanning again now.
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: Is this name Rees?
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 23 July 14 22:00 BST (UK) »
OK this is 350 dpi resolution - looks like I can go higher if needed. 

The initial letter looks more like the S of ship carpenter than the R which I think is the vicar's initial.
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: Is this name Rees?
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 23 July 14 22:44 BST (UK) »
I've searched for Welsh male names ending in -es and the best I can do is either Idris or Idres.

I've found on ancestry a baptism for a Harriet Thomas on 7th March 1830, in Carmarthen, Lammas Street meeting house, parents Thos. Thomas and Jane, but I cannot get the image to load.

Why are my ancestors so difficult ::) ???
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: Is this name Rees?
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 23 July 14 22:48 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Lisajb on Wednesday 23 July 14 22:00 BST (UK)
OK this is 350 dpi resolution - looks like I can go higher if needed. 

The initial letter looks more like the S of ship carpenter than the R which I think is the vicar's initial.

This image is 55kb ,Rootschat will allow pics up to 500kb to be posted.
About 250kb is a good size to try and decipher something from  ;D

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Re: Is this name Rees?
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 23 July 14 23:38 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Lisajb on Wednesday 23 July 14 17:55 BST (UK)
The cert did come from the GRO. The marriage took place in the Parish Church, Parish of St Nicholas, Bristol, in 1865, if anyone can point me in the right direction?

Sorry I can't help with this, why start a new thread on the Gloucestershire board for specific help about how to obtain an original from the local record office. (give a link to this thread to give some background information)

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Re: Is this name Rees?
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 23 July 14 23:41 BST (UK) »
I just found this and think it might be the place to contact:
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/page/births-deaths-and-marriages/family-history-and-historical-records

Do not give them the GRO reference numbers such as volume and page numbers because local offices use a different system. You might like to check to see if the father's surname is readable (do not suggest the name might be Rees so you don't sway their interpretation). Tell them you have the GRO copy but cannot read the surname and ask if the certificate would be a copy of the original signatures. (I would not want you to purchase exactly the same certificate if I have got this all wrong).

I see some records were destroyed - lets hope your certificate is not one of them.

Good luck if you try to obtain a new certificate - let us know how you get on.  :)

PS. I just had a thought. You are trying to work out what the surname of the father of the bride is. Wouldn't his surname be the same as hers?  :-\ Or am I missing something here?  ;)

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Re: Is this name Rees?
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 24 July 14 05:39 BST (UK) »
       I thought it was his Christian name Ruskie  ::)
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Re: Is this name Rees?
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 24 July 14 09:02 BST (UK) »
There's a list of Welsh boys' names here http://www.welshboysnames.co.uk/
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Re: Is this name Rees?
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 24 July 14 11:38 BST (UK) »
Ilies? 
A surname used as a first name or perhaps a mispelling/mishearing of Elias?

I don't think it's  Rees comparing R's

Jan ;)
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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge
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