Of all the surnames in all the world..

[Gadget]

Most of my unusual names seem to hail from Shropshire as well. MInd you most of the English in me is Shropshire, so...........................

A Great County 

Gadget - back again after a power cut 

PS plus at least half of my Jones ancestors

[Lloydy]

A Great County 

Gadget - back again after a power cut 

PS plus at least half of my Jones ancestors

Great words Gadget and, like you, I have tons of Jones ancestors



Jill, I used to go to college with a girl whose surname was Ikin........and I'm in Shropshire

[wheeldon]

It's difficult as some surnames do originate from specific areas - so they were probably all related somewhere back in the murky past.

I have 8 Wheeldons living on the same street in a small town in Derbyshire - I've only conclusively identified 4 of the families as being 'mine.'  I keep trying to link the others in but no success so far.

[wotty]

My Martin Meehan came over to England from Ireland and married a girl called Mary Kelly, whose mother's maiden name was Meehan.

I have a Hopps family on both sides of the tree and a Ridley family on both sides of the tree.

Then I find that my Hall family (who eventually were joined by marriage to one of my Hopps families) had, many years before that, servants by the name of Hopps.

As for the Mortimers and Littleboys.....Thomas Littleboy married Mary Mortimer. Mary Mortimer's brother Robert Mortimer, married Thomas Littleboy's sister Hannah Littleboy.

Now my head hurts!

Wotty.

[suffolkboyswife]

I have 3 Smith lines, 2 Parker lines, 2 Ward lines, 2 Allen lines.....

I read that as 2 ALIEN lines to begin with and had to re-read it

I am a Mrs Smith and in my husbands family not that far back there was a Smith marrying a Smith which was very difficult to unravel especially as Miss Smith had lied about her age to get married AND changed her middle name.

I am also working on my Clark family they are causing me a huge headache, I think the story goes something like this:

Robert Clark marries Mary, Robert dies, Mary marries his brother John (but have stated that they (John and Mary) are husband and wife in the 1861 census when I can only find a suitable reference for their marriage in 1865 and they had a daughter in 1862) Mary dies and John remarries another Mary.
This sounds quite an easy family riddle but I haven't added all the details because I would be here for ages typing this out 

Well thats how I think the story goes, I am about to order a load of certificates to prove (or not) that this is the case