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ZZzzz

ZZzzz Report 8 Dec 2010 21:34

Why do/did people do it, I have spent a very long time trying to find rellies as I knew them only to find they have completely different names on certificates, just a bit fat WHY did you do it??!!

Rant over, thanks for listening.

Researching:
Frame mainly from. Reading Berkshire. Vos from Netherlands. Nelson and Sowerby from Newcastle. Pickles from Saddleworth and Australia. Bainbridge from Durham. Willmot, Wilmot. Wilmott from Berkshire.

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 8 Dec 2010 22:44

I understand exactly where you are coming from Susan!

PricklyHolly AKA Susan............lol x :>))

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"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 8 Dec 2010 22:48

LOL.........our family had three
robert edwards'
the oldest was known as
"mike.....".
next one was " Boy"
and the last one a grammar school swot, was "professor!"

Bob

Researching:
me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 9 Dec 2010 05:58

Hey, at least yours have certificates!

And they didn't go changing their surnames once a decade ... and emigrating to Australia for five years, just in time for the census ...

But if mine hadn't done those things -- made their best efforts to hide from the authorities, and creditors, and me -- I'd have missed out on years of entertainment ... and regular readers of the Hill/Monck threads hereabouts would have missed out on, oh, 20 minutes of their own ... ;)

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Sandra

Sandra Report 9 Dec 2010 06:17

I understand where you are coming from. It took me six months to find out that my uncle john was my uncle Thomas and my aunt jean was my auntie Elizabeth and that is just two of them on my side Sandy

Researching:
brown, sawyer, dix, wheeler,attaway

ZZzzz

ZZzzz Report 9 Dec 2010 10:27

I understood why my Aunt did it, it was because she wanted all her children to have the same initial letter as their Father to their first name so they were known by their middle name, but then her last child didn't have that and it was not connected in any way to anyone else, my Uncle (Brother of the above) was known by his middle name but I needed to get his death cert (I knew what year that was) to find that out.

Researching:
Frame mainly from. Reading Berkshire. Vos from Netherlands. Nelson and Sowerby from Newcastle. Pickles from Saddleworth and Australia. Bainbridge from Durham. Willmot, Wilmot. Wilmott from Berkshire.

Karen in the desert

Karen in the desert Report 9 Dec 2010 10:33


Oh yes, Susan, I agree they were very annoying - just like my auntie Pat who was actually named Agnieska,

or my auntie May who was really Charlotte,
and my g.uncle Colley who had been baptised Robert Cole.
Then there was g.aunt Lil, who was not Lily but Elizabeth.
And Iris who was Lily and not Lil.....
etc etc etc!!!!
LOL
God bless them all

K

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Researching: MILLS & ROBERTS Cambs: TAGG Thames Ditton & East Molesey, Surrey: LEETON/LEADON Hunts & Cambs: LLOYD London/Middx: FROST London/Middx: ROSKAS, KISELIUS, BUDAS W.Lothian & Lanarks: ROSKAS, JAKAS/JAKAITE, JUSKEVICIUS, MICKEVICIUS Lithuania

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 9 Dec 2010 11:06

Ellenor decided she didn't like her name, or its diminutives and decided she wanted to be known as Doris. Thank goodness mother in law remembered, bless her cotton socks - lol

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Cynthia

Cynthia Report 9 Dec 2010 13:32

Totally frustrating aren't they??

OH had an uncle Ben, know as big Ben. Could I find a Benjamin anywhere? Could I heck.

Eventually tracked him down as Thomas. Why big Ben? 'cos he was tall of course!!


Why didn't I think of that in the first place....lol


Cx

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