Genealogy Chat

Sue - I can beat you with annoying names to google - try Prior!!!!
Another 'interesting' name to google (not mine thank goodness) is Fargin!!

maggie

Someone who remarries after first wife dies....to someone with the same name as the first wife, born in the same town as the first wife and gives the kids from the second marriage the same names as some of the ten from the first marriage when they hadn't even died first!!!

Linda in the Midlands
. Middle names were sometimes added at baptism

Not being able to find a birth or death entry at all for one particular ancestor. Only entries for a couple of census.....

Adding a middle name when they didn't have one! spent ages hunting for my greatx 2 grandad who added a middle name he wasn't given at birth.

The reason children were given the same name as parents ,grandparents etc is due to the English naming pattern which dated from 1700-1875 and after for some families

My hate is children left as nurse child but on the birth cert parents are supposed to be married.Fathers name given on the marriage cert.

No marriage or sign of parents on the census even though the father had a less common occupation
No possible deaths in the area for either parent

Having a surname like Fines or Judge which means any attempt to google the name or search through any online newspapers brings up thousands of unrelated court cases!

Sue
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Another one I have found

Being baptised as Rosanna and then being married as Rose Hannah

When they didn't use the name they were given when they were born but abbreviate their middle name, I was looking for Frederica Ellen, finally found her under the name of Nell!

when they marry cousins or in laws with the same surname i.e john smith married jane smith ( 1st wife's sister ) - not much help
linda x x

But when each of the siblings also has a child with the same name, eg William, often born within a couple of years of each other in the same parish then each of those williams have children and the parish registers state "son" or "daughter" of William, how do you decide which William is the father of each child.

I disagree with the first post. Continuance of certain first names from generation to generation is a valuable clue that you are on the right track.

Alistair

Being in 2 households simultaneously on census night, yet giving slightly different info for each.

Cousins living within 5 miles of each other, and in same registration district, playing copycat, ie marrying wives with same first name and then going on to name their children with exactly the same sequence of well-loved family names. Said cousins also have identical occupations and ages. Fortunately the wives have different ages and birthplaces - phew!

I've got one of those Ann Jane / Jane Anns! Maybe two ...

How about having an ancestor named Barnard ... and having to pick your way through all the Barnard Castle references whenever you try to search a genealogy-related site (like here, or curiousfox, etc) ... and then after three years of that, discovering that your Barnard ancestor married





















Mary CASTLE !!!

Aaaargh ....

People with the same surname getting married. Specifically in Wales and particularly if the surname in question is Jones!

xx

How about people who lie about their age? Or don't know it? and then have this imaginary figure rounded up or down or sideways by the census taker.....:-)

Jackie

I also have a niggle with the census takers who obviously can't decipher different dialects. We had someone who moved to Northumberland from Norfolk. He is listed as being born in Tibets Hall. IT'S TIVETSHALL!!!!!!!

The people who give their place of birth as whichever town they happen to be living in at the time.

People changing their date of birth from census to census. And also naming their child one thing at birth but calling them something totally different in each census!
Luckily I have a few odd names which makes life a lot easier when tracing people. So thank you parents of Ephraim, Elijah, Thirza and Fisher.

Having more than one child with the same name.................I've had this 3 times now, in each case I eventually traced the death of the first child with that name which was then given to the next sibling:(

Seems really morbid now, but in those days most families lost at least one child..........very sad.