« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 25 March 08 11:46 GMT (UK) »
That's right. Waiting for the "something to click into place" is the problem
Thank you for being willing to help. If only he'd had a name like Ebenezer or Jabez or anything but William!!
Not sure if I can post the picture I want. I did manage to send it to the practice site in pdf format. But it was too huge for words. I'll try the gif I've just done and see if that works.
Hmm. I don't think it did. Hey, it did, but it's a bit big. I hope that's okay.
That is fantastic, I can definitely see a resemblance especially in the lips. He was a very good-looking bloke.
I'm trying to do my Smith line so I can definitely sympathise with the common name problem. Trying to find the right John Smith is near on impossible.
Although sometimes having a strange name is just as bad because they are commonly mistranscribed or misspelt.
I got stuck on my first Tudgay for ages. There was a Priscilla Tudgay baptised when my Priscilla was an adult as Priscilla Morgan Tudgay but it never said on the baptism records it was for an adult so I assumed it was a child's baptism, probably a niece of my Priscilla, and then I realised that all four sisters had been baptised on the same day as adults, two of them already married hence their married names being used as well.
Who knows why they weren't baptised as children although perhaps the same thing happened to William, maybe he was never baptised...hmmm.
Romany/Traveller:
BLACKMAN, BUCKLAND, BURGESS, DIX, DOBSON, FOLEY, GRANT/PARKER, HUNT, JONES, MUNDAY/MONDAY, MORGAN, NOYELL, ORCHARD, PAGE, REED, VINCENT
Jewish:
BRAHAM, FROST, LYONS
French:
HONEYSETT, LEVETT PETTIT
English:
BELSHAW, BETTSWORTH, CANE, COVENTRY, DOBSON, FRY, NURSE, POOK, PUTLAND, PUTT, SMITH, SNELGROVE, TEE, TUDGAY, VENUS/VENESS
Irish:
ANDERSON, KILLOUGH, MACCORMACK, MACROBERTS, MORTON, MOORE, WALLACE