1861 Oxtoby, Taylor and Frobisher confusion

[teach3r]

I really appreciate your help - thank you!  I am trying to draw up a summary at the moment before my head explodes!

[louisa maud]

Why can't we find Charles on 1851
Louisa Maud

[avm228]

I don't think we've found William Oxtoby in 1851 either (?).

[louisa maud]

I think the combination of surname spellings is making it difficult

I do wonder if Charles is with another family but I haven't been able to find him as yet

Louisa Maud

[avm228]

Re the 1847 baptism of Charles Fredk with middle name "Veith" which seems to be an extremely rare name in the UK, possibly of German/Austrian origin.

The only Veith household in Hull in 1841 was that of foreign-born Ferdinand Veith and a 4 yr old son? John Veith.  Ferdinand had a servant, Mary Steel.

His full name was Ferdinand Christian Veith, a merchant and commission agent; newspapers show that he was made bankrupt on 25 September 1847.  He had absconded to New York by March 1848.

Possibly entirely irrelevant, but just noting for now.

[teach3r]

1841 Lockwood
Fretchfield FRITSCHER,  altered to Frobisher aged 30
Ann aged 25
Hannah aged 1

Louisa Maud

Hi Louisa Maud - I have been looking on FindMyPast at the 1841 and couldn't see the change from Fritscher to Frobisher - could you tell me where you saw this change please?

[avm228]

1841 Lockwood
Fretchfield FRITSCHER,  altered to Frobisher aged 30
Ann aged 25
Hannah aged 1

Louisa Maud

Hi Louisa Maud - I have been looking on FindMyPast at the 1841 and couldn't see the change from Fritscher to Frobisher - could you tell me where you saw this change please?

It's not been altered on the face of the document - it's just that an erroneous modern transcription on Ancestry has been corrected from Fritscher to Frobisher.

[teach3r]

I have tried to summarise all of your kind help in the attached document to see where I need to focus next.

[avm228]

I think you are mistaken as to the Oxtoby/Taylor marriage date - I agree that on the page itself the date could be read as 1851 or 1857, but if you scroll through to entries in a different hand it is clearly 1851 (followed in due course by 1852!).  This is consistent with the GRO registration in Sep qtr 1851 Hull.