Names and current affairs

[Hackstaple]

DebbieDee - when they called him Ebert it was just Zummerzet for Herbert

[RIPPON]

I'm interested in Nessie's  Pyrah and Merab twins as the Pyrah family is a line that I am following.   Could you tell me if the Pyrah Christen name is followed by Whitaker, Scargill, Heyes or Charlton and what year?  I am thinking that the Christen name comes from an earlier Pyrah marriage.

[Nessie]

It is from the Scargills of Thornhill, Dewsbury. Children of my ggg grandfathers brother.

[M.T.H]

Here's a bit of interesting info about names during the Boer War,it was posted back in August;

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,9986.msg31308.html#msg31308

Regards,Mick

[Nessie]

Looking for a Pyrah/Scargill marriage I came across one for an Oliver Cromwell Pyrah in Dewsbury in 1893.

[DebbieDee]

MR,

I've just found one of my own 'Boer War Babes'.

Baden Pretoria Pratlett born in 1900.  Must have been a very significant battle as all his siblings have quite 'ordinary names.

[DebbieDee]

DebbieDee - when they called him Ebert it was just Zummerzet for Herbert

  Maybe Mum or Dad had been on the scrumpy before popping down to the registrar hic

[RIPPON]

Thanks Nessie.  I have Pyrahs on the 1881 census at Dewsbury Road, THORNHILL.  I think there must be a Scargill/Pyrah marriage somewhere?

David PYRAH          Head   M   Male   59   Batley, York, England   Woollen Manufacturer    
 Sarah A. PYRAH     Wife   M   Female 57   Batley, York, England       
 Josiah PYRAH          Son   U   Male   29   Heckmondwike                Woollen Overlooker    
 William PYRAH         Son   U   Male   20   Batley, York, England   Woollen Spinner    
 Lucy PYRAH           Daur   U   Female 17   Batley, York, England   Woollen Weaver    
 David PYRAH           Son         Male   13   Batley, York, England   Scholar    
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Source Information:
  Dwelling   Dewsbury Rd
  Census Place Thornhill, York, England
  Family History Library Film   1342101
  Public Records Office Reference   RG11
  Piece / Folio   4569 / 4
  Page Number   2

[RIPPON]

Oliver Cromwell Pyrah is the son of Simeon King Pyrah.   My guess is that Oliver was named after a locomotive as his father was a railway porter.