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Name variants-keep an open mind !!!
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The Ego | Report | 22 Sep 2005 08:09 |
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Perusing the guild of one name studies index,as yer do.........stumbled upon this set of name variations...........>>> |
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The Ego | Report | 22 Sep 2005 08:16 |
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Variants on Webley>> Webberlerly Webberlye Whibley Weobly so when your research goes a bit wibbly wobbly,perhaps its not so wrong after all.......... |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 22 Sep 2005 08:20 |
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A friend of mine, ( doing a one name study) maintains that you should consider putting a piece of straw in the corner of your mouth, talk with a country accent and then consider how a 'townie' might have spelt the result. |
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The Ego | Report | 22 Sep 2005 08:23 |
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Sounds very unscientific but probably very close to the truth behind these variants. |
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The Bag | Report | 22 Sep 2005 15:03 |
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Rule of thumb... the more letters the more varients P's look like B's (or R's or or anything else) O can look like Q (or U if the ennumerator was in a hurry) J can look like a T (or vice versa) If the name sounds like something else its probably recorded as that (Inkpen/Inkpin, Browne/Brown, Greene/Green, ) Eliza will magically turn into Elizabeth/Betty/Liza or anything else Henry/ Harry will interchange at every turn ....and if the enumerator wasn't in a hurry,the writing will be so fancy and 'twiddly' it wont make any sense at all ! (got lots of thumbs ,me!) |
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BrianW | Report | 22 Sep 2005 15:09 |
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I was unable to find my Warboys on the 1861 census on 1837online, although someone had found them on another record. They were actually transcribed as Wankey ! |
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The Ego | Report | 22 Sep 2005 15:11 |
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LOL- now that is what I call creative.!! |
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Kim | Report | 22 Sep 2005 16:20 |
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There is only one family of strouvelle in England 1800s census, here is what I had to go through Stranwelle Stromvelle Stronval Sovell Chatrelle Shastrelle Chartelle Stronvelle Strowelle Shonvelle Chastrelle Chastirle Strouwelle Shawelle If it wasn't for the people on these boards I'd still be looking now so 'Thankyou!'And I thought an unusual name would be so simple! Kim |
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Angie | Report | 22 Sep 2005 16:35 |
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Just gained a few more ancesters as my Peart's surname got spelt Peat I had an idea of the R being missing but it took a trip to archives to prove it. Angie |
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moe | Report | 22 Sep 2005 17:25 |
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I also find if you tick name varients sometimes it doesn't show up, i was looking for great grannie ANN SALTER using the name varient box treating it as gospel when it was saying none found, then i typed in SAULTER, loads of them and found her with salter as name varient!!! no wonder i'm muddled...MOE! |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 22 Sep 2005 19:57 |
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My Cattermoles began as Kackermoulles in the 16th Century!!! maggie |
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Unknown | Report | 22 Sep 2005 20:01 |
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Our Caudwells turned into Cakewells......took ages to find them xx |
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Unknown | Report | 22 Sep 2005 20:19 |
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We had a Westenholz ............... I knew this was going to be a problem before I even started looking on Ancestry!! Too right it was ....... found them as Werterrhoby......!!! Bev x |
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