Name Variations

[Zelley]

I only have a few(so far!)
Bevan / Beavan / Bevin
Rockett / Rocket
Cox / Coxe
Cummings / Cummins
The only hiccup was one born a Beavan, had a childhood as Watkins and went to Bevan when he married! Took a while to sort that one out 
Tabitha

Thanks for sharing, please update this thread with more name variations.

[tazzie]

We have had fun with hubbys side of the tree...
 
     Each generation seemed to spell the name differently

                Fooks  Fookes Folks Folkes Foulkes and maybe even Fox but Ive still to prove that connection.

                   Tazzie
 

[suey]

After reading through the names above I won't be moaning about my NAILARD, NAILOR, NAYLOR'S ever again, what a nightmare journey some of you have had - now if I could just persuade my lot to stick with one surname and not keep changing back and forth I'd be a happy bunny!

[Zelley]

Suey and others - I guess we are stuck with what we get,
but what about all those folks that came from mainland Europe to settle in England, Canada or USA, but changed or had their names changed  to such basic names as Lewis, Phillips, or even Smith and Jones.  Now that is a problem for some.

[chrissy]

Davidson-Davison........scotland
     ............chrissy.

[Shaztoni]

Just looking at this one now...
Beaver/Beever/Beavers/Beevers all the same family over 4 census

[XPhile2868]

Banister, Bannister, Bannester

[Zelley]

Somebody on a Somerset list sent a link to old archives.

While fishing for names, I came across ZELY and MARTYN
in the year 1392 in Bristol.  It appears one Richard Zely
and John Martyn were two of the witnesses to some event that was to be dealt with after the "Feast of Epithany" in
January 1391.

Now, I never checked out the archives to get the details
of the event or the results.  All I know is some of the other
folks mentioned had names like SPELLY and ADAM.

For this thread the important name variation issues would be
ZELY - Zelly, Zelley & Zellye
MARTYN - Martin etc.

Maybe on a Somerset thread, somebody could sort out
what the 1391 issue concerning St. Thomas the Martyr, Church of England at Bristol was all about.

And on the Lighter Side thread, maybe somebody
could check out the subsequent years when the
likes of Francis Drake, Hawkins, Lovell  and other sea dogs
were knocking back a few suds in Bristol
before setting sail from places such as Plymouth
 to challenge the might of the Spanish Armada.

[chesters]

I have:

Thomason/Thomasson

Hodskinson/Hodkinson/Hodgkinson/Hodckinson/Hodgkins/Hogskinson

Nield/Nields

Blythen/Blything/Blyther