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This is rather complicated!. My great grandfather James Matthews married Mary Clifford in 1868 in Wiltshire. I sent for two of James and Mary's children's birth certificates~one gave Mary's maiden name as Clifford, the other as Bartlemore. As I searched back I found many of her relatives listed in Ancestry as Clifford OR Bartlemore, including brothers etc. The most recent was Archibald Thomas Bartlemnore OR Clifford. born in 1908. His father is listed on the records as Herbert Edwin Clifford OR Bartlemore. I contacted Family Search in America and they gave me references to a 'William Bartelmu or Clefford' who married Elizabeth Dash in 1674 in Bremhill, Wilts. So it seems that the use of these alternative names goes back as far as the 1600s!. In the census records from 1837 onwards, the two names are not shown on the original image. The two alternative names also appear on some birth and marriage records. Someone must have transcribed the originals onto the sites, but I can find no explanation of where these dual names have originated from. In the Ancestry records, the family members seem to switch between the surnames, sometimes calling themselves Clifford and sometimes Bartlemore!. I am sure it is the same family-very puzzling!.

Hello Ann, have you contacted the Wiltshire Family History Society to see if they can cast any light on this?

http://www.wiltshirefhs.co.uk/