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Anyone else come across the names Catherine and Christian/a being used interchangeably? 

I have been looking for an ancestor who appears as both in the censuses, which didn't bother me too much as I know the details sometimes got mistranscribed by the enumerator etc.  However, I have managed to find my Christian's baptism on the microfiche of the parish records and that is the spelling.  I haven't yet found her marriage but I have found the baptisms of who I thought were her children, but the mother's name is always either Catherine or Katherine.
Any likely explanation please?

Debbie

I am looking for the family of Henry Hurse in 1891.  I think I have found him living in Bedminster but there is no sign of his wife or any children with him.  Caroline is on her own as a sevant in 1891 and by 1901 has married.

Oxford Villa, Stanley Hill, Bedminster, Somerset
Henry Hurse 38 b Bristol Head Labourer Army?
Margaret Hurse 31 b Norwich Wife Laundress
Elizabeth Hurse 11 b Capetown, South Africa Daughter Scholar
Caroline Hurse 8 b Bristol Daughter  Scholar
Henry Hurse 3 b Bristol Son   
William Hurse 2 b Bristol Son 
Joseph Hurse  5 months b Bristol Son

RG11/2458 Folio 20 Page 33

I'm pretty sure this is the same family in 1901:

7 Stanley Hill, Knowle, Bristol, Somerset
Harry A HURSE 60 Haulier b Bristol
Mary  51 b Norwich
Henry  23 Sawyer (wood saw mills) b Bristol 
Elizabeth  18  Housemaid  b Bristol
George  16  Plaster's Labourer  b Bristol
Annie  14?  Cigarette maker  b Bristol
Florence  10  b Bristol
Bertha  8  b Bristol
Lilly  5  b Bristol

RG13/2386 Folio 132 Page 11

I would also like to find a marriage for Henry and Margaret but as it looks possible that they married in South Africa, I don't know where to start. 

Any help appreciated

Debbie
   

Hi
Any ideas please?
I am pretty sure that the first witness is R. W. Price, if this helps at all.  Rees William Price was the school master in Ystradfellte, Breconshire in 1871.  The marriage concerned took place in Ystradfellte in 1874.  I can post other bits if necessary. 

Hoping for ideas please on how to get through another brick wall. 

I am trying to trace a Jane Carroll/Carrol born c1876-1877.  All I know for sure is her marriage and death dates and births and deaths of her husband and children. 

Jane Carroll married Arthur Robert Durrant on 4 August 1907 at St Clement Barnsbury, Islington.  Arthur born in London, was in the army and their children born in 1909, 1911 and 1913 were born in Andover, Aldershot and Warwick.  By 1913 Arthur was a civilian working as a carpenter on an estate in Warwickshire.

Arthur died in 1959 and Jane in 1964 and they are both buried in Somerset. 

The only clue I have to Jane's origin is that her father is named as James Carroll, a Stoker, on  her marriage certificate. 

I have searched the censuses for any Jane Carroll (and variant spellings) with father called James.  Of course, James might have been at sea.  There is a James Carroll (b Dublin c1832)on a ship in Liverpool in 1881 who is a Fireman which I gather is similar to a Stoker.  It says he's married but I can't seem to link him to any family in other censuses.

I thought I'd struck gold with another Carroll family in Everton, Lancashire in 1881.  Father: James (Stoker Steamship) b Liverpool c1846, wife Jane b Holyhead with a daughter Jane b c1871 (OK a few years out but I wasn't too worried).  I spent ages tracking the whole family as the parents seemed to have both died by 1891.  Unfortunately this Jane seems to have married a Francis Walton in 1892.  I did think she may have been widowed but there is a a good chance that they were still having children in 1911 so I don't see much point in pursuing that avenue at the moment. 

Another possible in 1881 is a Jane Carrol with mother Ellen who is said to be married but there is no husband with them.  They are in Wigan.  I have also looked for likely Janes in 1891 & 1901.  There is one good possibility:  Jane Carroll born c 1876 in Liverpool living in Hornsey, Middlesex but she is a servant so no real clues apart from a possible birthplace.

I am now considering buying any birth certificates of Jane Carrolls born in the Liverpool area in mid 1870s to see if I get anything. 

Any better suggestions please??? 

Aneurin Rees born 7th August 1889 in Tonna, Glamorgan
Father: Richard Rees 
Mother: Elizabeth Jane Rees formerly Davies

Please PM me if you would like it.

Debbie