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Name Mordass / Mordaff / Mordue conundrum
I can’t decide if my 4xGGM c1781 was named Isabel Mordass / Mordaff or Mordue. (Firstly, as far as I know, the cursive script for ‘ss’ looks like a long f then a normal f, or two long f’s so I use it as Mordass, but find some other transcriptions are written as Mordaff). From Family Search and the handwritten Bishop’s records I have a baptism for her 22 July 1781 Busty Bank Tanfield to Jacob Mordass and Isabel Smails. Her 6 siblings are spelt Mordass too.
The problem then lies with her marriage to Thomas Atkinson b1777 of Lintz, Tanfield. First, I found two likely records via Family Search as follows (both Mordaff):
Name: Thomas Atkinson
Spouse's Name: Isabel Mordaff
Event Date: 22 Feb 1803
Event Place: Tanfield,Durham,England
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00082-1 , System Origin: England-ODM , GS Film number: 91138, 91140
Thos. Atkinson MARRIAGE b
mentioned in the record of Thos. Atkinson and Isabel Mordaff
Name: Thos. Atkinson
Spouse's Name: Isabel Mordaff
Event Date: 31 Jul 1803
Event Place: Tanfield,Durham,England
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00082-1 , System Origin: England-ODM , GS Film number: 91138, 91140 ,
And this one on an Ancestry search:
Name: Isabel Mordaff
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 22 Feb 1803
Marriage Place: Tanfield,Durham,England
Spouse: Thomas Atkinson
FHL Film Number: 91138, 91140
I looked at the Tanfield Bishop’s handwritten church records via FS to see if I could find these two records of different dates, but there is only the one for the July 31st with names Thomas Atkinson and Isabel MorDUE. I couldn’t see a one for 22 Feb. I notice both the above FS results show the same index and film numbers and names (Mordaff), just different dates – the 31 July date matches the Bishop’s handwritten record except the name there is Mordue! I checked on Durham Records Online and got:
Marriages, Lanchester District - Record Number: 181251.1
Location: Tanfield
Church: St. Margaret
Denomination: Anglican
31 Jul 1803 Thomas Atkinson married Isabel Mordass
So I’m thinking it’s Mordass. HOWEVER, their future 6 children from 1804 – 1815 in Tanfield show the mother is named as Mordue on the Bishop’s records, Ancestry and DRO that show the mother’s maiden name. *A double check on FS showed I had missed additional members of their family because the Tanfield church record images online, years 1808 to 1812 are missing, so I initially missed 3 of their children.
I couldn’t find any children for Mordass c1803 – 1815 to those parents. Therefore is her name Mordue? Or did the scribers just spell it differently? Importantly for my understanding of all index records, are the two FS index numbers the same because they are the same person or were there two similar marriages and I just can’t find one? Could Mordue sound like Mordeux (s)?? AAAArghhhh!!!
Can anyone find a marriage for 22 Feb 1803 Tanfield other than the FS record in case I’ve missed it please? Thanks.
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