Jarrow Query

[KGarrad]

Also:

September qtr 1874
Durham district    vol 10a, page 506

Artus, Robert

[KGarrad]

More possibilities?

September qtr 1865
Tynemouth district    vol 10b, page 165
Ardus, John Henry

September qtr 1865
Chester le Street district    vol 10a, page 434
Artess, James William

December qtr 1865
South Shields district    vol 10a, page 582
Artos, Elijah

December qtr 1867
Tynemouth district    vol 10b, page 171
Ardus, Rosetta

December qtr 1869
Tynemouth district    vol 19b, page 165
Ardus, William Henry C

December qtr 1872
Stockton district    vol 10a, page 127
Artox, Lavinia Louisa

September qtr 1873
Tynemouth district    vol 10b, page 198
Ardus, Ghreten Helena

[0rinoco]

Well, thank you for your splendid results. Most of the information is relevant to my family history. I shall be having a fairly late night, tonight, updating my tree. I always assumed that as the family was shown as living in Manchester on every census, that they had never left the place. Just shows how wrong you can be. I just could not find a reason for the Jarrow mention.
Thanks once again.
Eric

[KGarrad]

Those births are only possibilities!

But it's as well to try surname variations (as I well know with my own surname), especially when the registrar writing the names might have been unfamiliar with the informants accent?

[0rinoco]

There are quite a few variations on the name Artus. Elijah's father, Uriah, was given the surname Artos on his birth certificate. The name was originally Arthers, and gggg grandfather William was christened William Arthers in the village of Hawkesbury, Glos. in 1768. When he married in 1793, the name had become Artus.
All good fun!
Eric

[0rinoco]

Further to the above post. Some of the other names, Lavinia, Robert, and Louise are the family of Robert Artus, who moved from Gloucester to the Durham area to find work. He was a coal miner and died in the Tudhoe disaster in 1882.
Eric

[KGarrad]

My mother-in-law's family are Ardis!
Another variation?

[0rinoco]

Could well be, although I haven't encountered it previously.
Eric

[stanmapstone]

According to the Oxford Names Companion the surname Art(h)us is a French variation of Arthur. There were 121 people with the name Artus in the 1881 census, mainly in Gloucestershire with 64, the rest were spread over thirteen counties. The locations in Gloucestershire were Westbury on Severn, Cheltenham, and Gloucester.
There were 20 Ardis, thirteen in Lancashire, in Blackburn (10)  and Liverpool (3). Ardus numbered 6, Tynemouth 5, and Newcastle 1.
There were 6,532 Arthur,  and 455 Arthurs

Stan