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Interested in SEYMOUR as a first name.

A family of interest has many generations and branches with the first name SEYNOUR.  Sometimes this appears as Saymore Seamore etc also Salmon and Simon.

Is this common?  Might this indicate a connection to the Seymour family either as nobility or servants to that family?

Might it indicate Jewishness?

Thank you for assistance
phenolphthalien
pH

Hello
I have been around convict records for NSW for in excess of 40 years but I have a quesion I do not know the answer to.

Did young children of convict mums ever follow their mums on a different ship?

I have a convict ancestor who either had a child just before transportation, en route or after arrival/

Not on the shipping list for her vessel and children are listed, not in the surgeon's journal and not in early baptismal records.

Her Mum arrived 1811, married woman in England married again 1818.  Child is on the 1821 census on AJCP.  Would have been born in the period 1809 to 1812 from various records concerning her.

Implication is she was the daughter of the English husband.

As the daughter is not my direct ancestor it is not my story to tell so I will not give names.

BUT i had an odd thought and want to know is it possible that she came out on a different vessel to her mum sometime between her birth and say the age of 11or 12.

Some folk try to match this child with one born in Cornwall -- unlikely as the mum seems to have spent a number of years in London particularly before her free trip to Aus.

Of course the child simply may not have been baptised.

Its Just curiousity but who knows maybe i should be looking for the arrival of very young child.

regards
phenolphthalein
pH

Trying to confirm a record I saw more than 15 years ago -- burial at Grantham or Little Gonnerby -- after 1797 before 1812 == Sarah Brook Glover -- could be Brooks or Brookes -- Interested in any other Glover  there.

Thank you so much for the effort

The record I saw was either fiche film or book.
Remember exactly where I was when I saw it but not the details.
Weird what memory does.

Thank you again in advance.

phenolphthalein

I've been inactive for a couple of years -- actually probably a few -- long story -- not for public consumption.
Does anyone know if Joboy is still about?
Thanks in advance.
phenolphthalein

Emma Hamilton appears as visitor as a 7 year old in 1851 census of Deptford
and as visitor again as a 17 year old in 1861 census of Deptford.
No adult specifically there for her.
correction It was Eliza and yes one was Deptford and the later Holborn.

So who was she?

Was she the family dog or cat?
After all we added Joey Budgie to one of our censuses years ago
(making it very clear it was a joke) and senses of humour have not changed that greatly.

She is not a servant's child -- no servants 1861
Doesn't appear to be a neighbour's child but maybe haven't looked widely enough.
Doesn't appear to be a grandchild.
At 7 or even 17 not about to marry anyone in the family.

Is she what I describe as a "vague relation"
of the step-aunt's half-sibling's cousin's children variety. 
And YES I do have that variety.

Or a cousin's cousin.

OR A relation that lived with them but would be too complicated to explain to the census taker
so was put as visitor

OR was she an underage servant.

Thank you