Challenge! Annie Clara SQUELCH

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PS I like the name Squelch!  

 

So do I.  I would love to find them somewhere in my tree...fingers crossed it will be, even if just barely!
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[Boongie Pam]

Hi MR,

I had a look at the 1881 image and the Bakewels are a different household - it's been mistranscribed.

Pam
 

[Manchester Rambler]

Hi MR,

I had a look at the 1881 image and the Bakewels are a different household - it's been mistranscribed.

Pam
 

That'll teach me not to rely on transcriptions - as if I didn't know!  (Kicking myself sharply)   

MR

[Boongie Pam]

I'm sure you'll already have this.

RG13/2852
Birmingham, All Saints  
ED: 39 F: 28 P: 7

Roland Bradshaw  Head  26  Germany Strip Carter? (power)   Birmingham, Warwickshire
Ada Bradshaw  Wife 24   Birmingham, Warwickshire
Violet Bradshaw  Daughter  2    Birmingham, Warwickshire

But I guess that's your connection sorted?

Pam
 

[Boongie Pam]

Hi MR,

I had a look at the 1881 image and the Bakewels are a different household - it's been mistranscribed.

Pam
 

That'll teach me not to rely on transcriptions - as if I didn't know!  (Kicking myself sharply)   

MR

The confusion is becasue they've written "Mother" rather than "Head" but it is a different address - her marital condition has been transcribed as "Windower"

Pam
 

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Well, not much of a challenge for all you very clever people!

I think Ive got it:

Violet Bradshaw  -  my nan
Ada Florence Smith & Roland Bradshaw - my gt gm & gd
Annie Clara Smith (Ada's sister) & Albert SQUELCH - my ggt aunt & uncle??

That would put the SQUELCH's firmly (no pun intended!) in my tree, by marriage.  Am I right?

Fantastic!  Anyone else got a link to a SQUELCH?

I just love that name!!

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[Flipster]

I suppose my next question should be...where does the name SQUELCH originate?  Ive just been having a conversation with an uninterested hubby and that was his only query!  or rather....

"how on earth do you get a name like Squelch?!"

[Boongie Pam]

A bit of googling has a mention on the Rootsweb mailing lists that it is a variation of Quelch?

Though an online etymology site says...

quelch 
1659, shortening of squelch, perhaps influenced by quench.

Same source...

squelch (v.) 
1624, "to fall, drop, or stomp on something (soft) with crushing force," possibly imitative of sound made. The fig. sense of "suppress completely" is first recorded 1864.

No closer to a name though.

Fascinating name.  Where is that Deed Poll form?

Pam
 

[Flipster]

Ive just been doing to the same thing.  Cant find a site that gives origins of unusual surnames? Must be one somewhere.

At least I have the joy of Smith to try and work with too...sublime to the ridiculous!! 

And why did she have to be a widow?  That's another birth cert to add to the list!