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Help with a female name please, 1841
« on: Sunday 12 December 10 10:55 GMT (UK) »
Hi Folks,
Can anyone help me decipher this female name from the 1841 Census (in Leicester) please?
I'd me most grateful.

I've included some of the surrounding names in the same hand.

Could the name be Emma?

Thanks for looking!

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Re: Help with a female name please, 1841
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 12 December 10 11:12 GMT (UK) »
Hi transparu,

My first guess would be Emma as well.

 
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Re: Help with a female name please, 1841
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 12 December 10 11:13 GMT (UK) »
Emma would have been my first guess but the first letter doesn't look like the E of Elizabeth a couple of lines down.

It looks as if it could be an A. Where are they? Could a regional accent have made Emma sound like Amma?

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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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Re: Help with a female name please, 1841
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 12 December 10 11:16 GMT (UK) »
In 1851, she's quite clearly Emma, HO107/2089 504 20

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Re: Help with a female name please, 1841
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 12 December 10 12:21 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Ladies . . I appreciate the help.

Dave
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Re: Help with a female name please, 1841
« Reply #5 on: Monday 13 December 10 09:20 GMT (UK) »
I'll throw a wild card in here... Susanna whoops...I should have read previous posts.  :D
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Re: Help with a female name please, 1841
« Reply #6 on: Monday 13 December 10 11:13 GMT (UK) »
Hello
could it be Gemma?
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Re: Help with a female name please, 1841
« Reply #7 on: Monday 13 December 10 11:15 GMT (UK) »
Thanks everyone . . other Census records make it clear that it IS Emma - though it IS a rather strange E!

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