Rebbeck/Vining/Viney

[Barbara4t]

Hi

One of the families I am researching are the Rebbecks from Fontmell Magna and Compton Abbas in the mid to late 1700s.
For at least two generations this family were known as Rebbeck or Vining or Viney. The other family I am interested in are the Hatchers from possibly Todber and they were known as Hatcher alias Crowter or Crowter alias Hatcher.
Does anybody have an explanation as to why both last names were carried on through the generations round the 1700s as it appears to be peculiar to Dorset.   
 Barbara

[Jebber]

Hi Barbara,

This sometimes occurred because of inheritance, someone would leave a bequest in a will on the condition that the recipient changed their name, this could result in descendants using both names.

The HATCHER CROWTER alias goes back at least to the 1600s. On Ancestry there is a 1662 will in which Elizabeth CROWTER HATCHER is described as the relict (widow) of Thomas CROWTER Todber .

Jebber

[Barbara4t]

Hi Jebber

Thank you for that bit of info, very interesting. I will have a look for that will and hopefully it can give me a few more clues. That must also be the reason why there are quite a few old wills on Anc for Dorset familys. Thank goodness women arn't call recicts any more 

thanks again
Barbara

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