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Norfolk Lookup Requests / Re: Marriages with different dates
« on: Sunday 26 July 20 08:13 BST (UK) »
I know what you mean about SMITH being a common name. I've not followed up my Smiths for a while and have recorded what I found in the Reunion programme. I hadn't got anything earlier than Samuel Smith in Norfolk marrying Sophia Wright and then re-locating to Maldon in Essex. And I had found Samuel and Sophia weren't born in Essex, as you say. But I have the death record of Samuel's death as 1847 in the Union Workhouse, Maldon. And a son, George Samuel Smith (aka Samuel George Smith) born 1805. I know that's the right line because it leads to my great-grandfather James Smith and down to Ernest Smith my grandfather etc.
I think you are right about a Samuel dying, followed by another Samuel (maybe that was the Samuel George) but I can't remember where I saw that.
Anyway, I mustn't bore you with all this. I wanted to follow my Smith line back because I had wondered if there was a Romany connection. 'Smith' and 'Wright' (and 'Porter' which comes into it) are names Gypsies used, but I know that doesn't mean that everyone with those names were Romany.
Thank you for listening -:)
Zillah
I think you are right about a Samuel dying, followed by another Samuel (maybe that was the Samuel George) but I can't remember where I saw that.
Anyway, I mustn't bore you with all this. I wanted to follow my Smith line back because I had wondered if there was a Romany connection. 'Smith' and 'Wright' (and 'Porter' which comes into it) are names Gypsies used, but I know that doesn't mean that everyone with those names were Romany.
Thank you for listening -:)
Zillah