Thank you, that’s the certificate where Valentine appears to have been changed to William, I guessed he may be my great grandfather due to the name Cullen and worked out rough year from his death certificate in 1902 where it states he was 39 when he passed, so it kind of fits.
Do you happen to know which church that the baptism took place?
Re COI I have often wondered about that, there seems to be a mixture of religions under that surname.
The earliest records I found were in the 1600/1700 and the name was Bestel and the strange thing is
My grandfather baptism is Bestel and that name has followed through till current day in Scotland. I do realise though that back in the day a lot of the various spellings would be down to the registrar writing it as it sounded and probably some people not being able to read or write.
In a way in my case I’m lucky as it’s quite an unusual name and only appears to be found mainly in Armagh and Wicklow, the odd time Dublin and elsewhere.
I have seen the above certificate but I couldn’t remember which website it was on, so thank you for posting. I wish there was a search by name facility as would be so much easier to look. I’ll definitely search through it and hopefully find other family members
Thanks again for your help
