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Offline amielou86

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Help with unusual name / certificate writing
« on: Monday 21 May 12 20:20 BST (UK) »
Hi All,

I have received today a marriage certificate of my 3 x Great Grandparents. Under fathers name and surname appears to be the name "Job".  Is this an actual name?! Could it be short for something? Jacob maybe?

All suggestions welcome!

Amie
Prosser - Worcestshire, Newport, Pontypool (http://myprosserfamily.tribalpages.com)
Rees - Glamorganshire, Pontypool
Morgan - Pontypool & Trelleck (http://morganspontypool.tribalpages.com)
Buckley - Tipperary, Waterford, Newport, Pontypool
Ryan - Newport & Pontypool
Jeffreys - Cardiff & Somerset
Martin - Cardiff & Somerset
Perkins - Cardiff, Cambridgeshire
Cutlan - Cardiff, Leicester, Yorkshire

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Re: Help with unusual name / certificate writing
« Reply #1 on: Monday 21 May 12 20:24 BST (UK) »
Hi Annie

Yes Job is a faily common biblical name and if you check out a census around the correct time you will see there are thousands.  :)

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Re: Help with unusual name / certificate writing
« Reply #2 on: Monday 21 May 12 20:26 BST (UK) »
How unusual.

Should make searching a bit easier

Thanks
Prosser - Worcestshire, Newport, Pontypool (http://myprosserfamily.tribalpages.com)
Rees - Glamorganshire, Pontypool
Morgan - Pontypool & Trelleck (http://morganspontypool.tribalpages.com)
Buckley - Tipperary, Waterford, Newport, Pontypool
Ryan - Newport & Pontypool
Jeffreys - Cardiff & Somerset
Martin - Cardiff & Somerset
Perkins - Cardiff, Cambridgeshire
Cutlan - Cardiff, Leicester, Yorkshire

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Re: Help with unusual name / certificate writing
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 22 May 12 07:33 BST (UK) »
Job isn't that unusual! ;D

The 1881 census has 11,121 of them.
Compare with Leonard (17,000), Janice (1751), Kenneth (4592) or Amy (49619) or Amie (469)!
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: Help with unusual name / certificate writing
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 22 May 12 07:37 BST (UK) »
Haha, no I meant that I've never heard of it :-D

Its a change from all my Williams, Johns, Charles and Richards!
Prosser - Worcestshire, Newport, Pontypool (http://myprosserfamily.tribalpages.com)
Rees - Glamorganshire, Pontypool
Morgan - Pontypool & Trelleck (http://morganspontypool.tribalpages.com)
Buckley - Tipperary, Waterford, Newport, Pontypool
Ryan - Newport & Pontypool
Jeffreys - Cardiff & Somerset
Martin - Cardiff & Somerset
Perkins - Cardiff, Cambridgeshire
Cutlan - Cardiff, Leicester, Yorkshire
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