Author Topic: Help please...best guess  (Read 3170 times)

Offline McGroger

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 2,731
  • Convicts, Commoners and Outlaws
    • View Profile
Re: Help please...best guess
« Reply #27 on: Wednesday 12 October 16 11:25 BST (UK) »
4H,

I wonder if it could be:
“Ghroom” (lenited Gaelic h? - don’t ask, I don’t know Gaelic), but such an occupation (groom) might have been something he could do into his seventies.

And:
“2 Gt Bgn Place” (Great Broughton Place).

The three letters I’ve suggested as “g”s (in Ghroom, Gt and Bgn) look to have the same formation.

In old maps there are: Broughton St, Broughton Lane, Broughton Place and East Broughton Place. I’m wondering if Broughton Place was known as Great Broughton Place in order to distinguish it from the others, particularly East Broughton Place.

Cheers, Peter
Convicts: COSIER (1791); LEADBEATER (1791); SINGLETON (& PARKINSON) (1792); STROUD (1793); BARNES (aka SYDNEY) (1800); DAVIS (1804); CLARK (1806); TYLER (1810); COWEN (1818); ADAMS[ON] (1821); SMITH (1827); WHYBURN (1827); HARBORNE (1828).
Commoners: DOUGAN (1844); FORD (1849); JOHNSTON (1850); BEATTIE (& LONG) (1856); BRICKLEY (1883).
Outlaws: MCGREGOR (1883) & ass. clans, Glasgow, Glenquaich, Glenalmond and Glengyle.

Offline 4HORSEMEN

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 65
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Help please...best guess
« Reply #28 on: Thursday 13 October 16 07:19 BST (UK) »
Hi McGroger,

Groom has been suggested so it's possible, Broughton may be the one, thanks for having a go at them, I have a surname I'm going to post and I hope the general consensus is the name I am after, please have a go at it as well.

Thanks
4