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Title: Help reading name please
Post by: BettyofKent on Friday 06 February 09 17:14 GMT (UK)
The surname is Bonny, & according to the censuses, he was born in Italy. I would be grateful if someone would have a go at what the first name might be.
(Ancestry have him as Saccrdote & Sacerdole, so not much help there!)

Betty
Title: Re: Help reading name please
Post by: Tati on Friday 06 February 09 17:17 GMT (UK)
Looks like Sacerdote to me  :)
Title: Re: Help reading name please
Post by: Tati on Friday 06 February 09 17:19 GMT (UK)
He's mentioned here:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dutillieul/Scraps/PaperTreasure/London4.html
Title: Re: Help reading name please
Post by: genjen on Friday 06 February 09 17:20 GMT (UK)
His death record is definitely Sacerdote. Dec 1917, Hackney.1b 425

Jen
Title: Re: Help reading name please
Post by: coombs on Friday 06 February 09 17:29 GMT (UK)
Hi

Sacerdote Bonney or Bonny. It is definately Sacerdote.

Ben
Title: Re: Help reading name please
Post by: BettyofKent on Friday 06 February 09 17:32 GMT (UK)
Thank you Tati, genjen & coombs, & thank you Tati for the link, that's a bonus :)
Three more corrections to Ancestry, I've just found him as Saierdote.


Betty
Title: Re: Help reading name please
Post by: coombs on Friday 06 February 09 17:33 GMT (UK)
Hi Betty

Where did the child of Sacerdote get married?

There were many Italians in the Holborn and Clerkenwell areas of London.

Ben
Title: Re: Help reading name please
Post by: genjen on Friday 06 February 09 17:49 GMT (UK)
Isn't it a funny name? I wonder how he pronounced it? Sounds a bit like Austrian chololate cake - Sachertorte!  ;D
Title: Re: Help reading name please
Post by: JenB on Friday 06 February 09 17:56 GMT (UK)
Sacerdotus was, I think, the Latin word for a Priest.

http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definitions/sacerdote

I wonder how he pronounced it?

Sack -er-dote probably
Title: Re: Help reading name please
Post by: Just Kia on Friday 06 February 09 19:12 GMT (UK)
Apparently it's sasher-doh-tay
http://forvo.com/word/sacerdote/
Italian pronounciation at the bottom - beware it's quite loud
Title: Re: Help reading name please
Post by: BettyofKent on Friday 06 February 09 22:23 GMT (UK)
At last I've got an interesting name in my tree, it makes a nice change from Thomas & William ;D

Coombs, his daughter married my great uncle in Ramsgate. He was from Nottingham, she was from London, although in Margate for the 1891 Census.

Betty