« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 22 March 23 19:06 GMT (UK) »
My ancestor William Coombs father George Coombs, coachman, died in 1831 when William was 3. William had an older brother 16 years his senior called Matthew George Coombs born 1812. When William married in 1856 he said his dad was Matthew George Coombs, coachman. Yet from the records on George I have, including his 1790 Dorset baptism, he was always just George Coombs. George's dad before him was Matthew Coombs who wed George's mother Margaret Munday in 1775 in West Compton Abbas, Dorset.
William's brother Matthew G Coombs was never a coachman, always a litho/music printer.
William must have assumed his dad George had the exact same name as his older brother. Matthew George. As George's dad was also called Matthew, maybe that also confused William for some reason, especially as George died when William was 3.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain
