Purchased Marriage Certificate and can't read it! (1878)

[horselydown86]

Charles Brown... Frederick Brown.... Marie Katrina Ross

Not VERYYYYYYY Swedish!  Maybe a bit?!

Bitzar 

I have a Swedish mystery g-g-grandfather and have looked closely at the names of Swedish sailors as they appear in the newspapers.

From what I can gather, it was quite normal for them to take English names.  Mostly they seem to have done so on board their ships.

See, for example, the names of two Swedes involved here:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01iwq/

[jamcat95]

....... and also many seaman jumped ship and then having to change their name as not to get arrested.

Ian

[Berlin-Bob]

....... and also many seaman jumped ship and then having to change their name as not to get arrested.

That sounds familiar !!  I strongly suspect that my greatgrandfather did just that. My father says he was called KALLNING, was in the german merchant marine, and changed his name to COLEMAN.

But the only census references I can find for him give his birthplace as Stepney ... and no birth certificate !! So I have always thought "jumped ship, changed his name and invented a birth place (probably where he jumped ship), which wouldn't indicate his german origins".

I even used the thought as a topic title here "Inventing the Colemans", and on my website 

Bob

[jamcat95]

Hmmm, looking for the real surnames of seaman who jumped ship is a real challenge as this Charles Brown could well be.

Ian

[bitzar]

LOL, I was just watching an old ep of WDYTYA with Kate Ceberano.  Her Swedish ancestor did the same thing in Port Adelaide!

bitzar.