Lady Sarah Dukesell

[Lil0]

Oh wow!  Thank you. Thank you!  I could not figure out where she pulled that name from.

And I'll bet Mary had a sister, Sarah!

[mckha489]

Yes she did, baptised

20 May 1821 Pensax, daughter of John and Elizabeth.
I'm only looking at transcript, not image

Added.

looks like she also died there same year

[Lil0]

Mystery solved!!!!!!  I can't tell you how much this has bugged me for several years.  I come back to it every once in awhile, but keep coming up empty handed.  Thank you SO MUCH!!!  I will share this info with a few cousins who had also been stymied by it.

[Lil0]

Oh.  Do you mean she died the same year she was born?   Hmmmm.  I have seen a picture of an older woman who was supposedly Sarah Dukesell.

Well, at least I have the connection to the name "Dukesell"

[mckha489]

Oh.  Do you mean she died the same year she was born?   Hmmmm.  I have seen a picture of an older woman who was supposedly Sarah Dukesell.

Well, at least I have the connection to the name "Dukesell"

there might be another Sarah baptised after that one. Still working my way through, also, there seem to be a lot of other siblings, one of them could have named a daughter Sarah.

[Lil0]

Thank you so much.  I really appreciate this.  I was starting to think Ada had just pulled this name out of thin air.

[Lil0]

I wonder if it was a regular practice to include a sir name from one's mother's family as part of one's legal name.  I would have thought, in that case, she would have listed her name [on my father's birth certificate] as Ada Dukesell Harrison -- rather than Ada Harrison Dukesell.  Strange custom, but, who knows.

[Lil0]

I found a Sarah Dukesel who was baptized on Feb 23, 1806 and is the daughter of Elizabeth.  In Worcester. Can you find anything else about her?   She just might be the one I'm looking for.