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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Winchester Assizes Summer of 1813
« on: Tuesday 27 October 20 17:44 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks hanes teulu - That is a crucial piece of information for my search. It looks like this Ann Doswell was not my three times great-grandmother! My Ann would have been only sixteen in 1813.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Winchester Assizes Summer of 1813
« on: Tuesday 27 October 20 16:45 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks AntonyMMM - You've given me an excellent starting point

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Family History Beginners Board / Winchester Assizes Summer of 1813
« on: Tuesday 27 October 20 15:39 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know whether the trial information is available for the Winchester Assizes for summer of 1813? I'm trying to find additional information about Ann Doswell who was sentenced at that trial. I have all the Hampshire Chronicle articles but they are skimpy. I'm hoping to find additional information about Ann such as age, parents, etc. She was sentenced to six months imprisonment at Bridewell. The coroner's inquest was in March 1813 - would there be records anywhere for the coroner's inquest? Any information would be appreciated. Thanks

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Middle Names in England early 19th century
« on: Saturday 04 April 20 18:29 BST (UK)  »
medpat - thanks for the comment - that is closer to my situation. Can I ask what year she was born and year of wedding? I'm looking for patterns of behavior. Thanks

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Middle Names in England early 19th century
« on: Saturday 04 April 20 18:11 BST (UK)  »
ThrelfallYorky - another interesting thing about you William Whitely Isherton, of six siblings baptized on same day he is only one with middle name.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Middle Names in England early 19th century
« on: Thursday 02 April 20 23:07 BST (UK)  »
uk4753 - you have my sympathy. With middle names like those, you'd think that it would be relatively easy to find where they came from. One article I read referenced a tradition that the first child a new clergyman baptized would take his name - so there could be all sorts of obscure traditions out there. Good luck!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Middle Names in England early 19th century
« on: Thursday 02 April 20 18:45 BST (UK)  »
Little Nell - I had initially focussed on my great grandfather - the middle name that he added produced a name that very closely matched a person of considerable status so I thought perhaps he was trying to look more important than he really was. I recently found that his brother may have also used a middle name that he hadn't been christened with but I knew where that name came from. With respect to my great grandfather, I do think it had something to do with climbing the social ladder - just not sure if I can verify this one way or the other. Interesting situation to say the least!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Middle Names in England early 19th century
« on: Thursday 02 April 20 18:01 BST (UK)  »
Hi Little Nell: Just to clarify what you're saying:  Are you saying that children in Sussex, Dorset and Hampshire gave themselves middle names to acknowledge a godparent? Was that a common  practice in what you've seen in Sussex, Dorset and Hampshire? If so, then perhaps the two fellows I'm looking at didn't do something odd.

What I'm trying to figure out is what motivated these two boys to give themselves a middle name despite the fact that their parents hadn't given them a middle name. In the place of their birth, middle names were extremely rare so something, subsequent to their birth, motivated them to give themselves a middle name. They did move to London area so that's why I was querying whether middle names were common in London for people in their age group.

I'd be really keen to see if somebody else has seen the same thing  in their family history.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Middle Names in England early 19th century
« on: Thursday 02 April 20 16:56 BST (UK)  »
That is an excellent idea and, fortunately, the parish registers for the place of their birth (Winchcombe, Gloucestershire) are available online on Ancestry so I went through them page by page for the period from 1768 up to the birth of the second son in 1782. Less than 1 percent of the christenings had a middle name. I'm curious whether this was also the case in the London area where they moved to so now I just have to find some parish registers online for comparative purposes. If the majority of those they associated with in London had middle names, maybe they felt compelled to create their own so that they'd fit in.  Many thanks for the suggestion.

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