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Dixidan | Report | 7 Jul 2008 23:38 |
Why would a couple who have children give them a different surname to their surname? |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 7 Jul 2008 23:40 |
Are you looking at a census entry? |
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Dixidan | Report | 7 Jul 2008 23:42 |
Yes it's from a census but woman's name from first marriage was barnsley |
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Sue in Somerset | Report | 7 Jul 2008 23:51 |
Just a wild guess but could those children have been the offspring of a first wife of Benjamin? If he'd married their mother and she died then he might have been looking after them when he married again. |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 7 Jul 2008 23:52 |
Two different household schedule have been listed as one family |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 7 Jul 2008 23:55 |
Marriages Jun 1858 (>99%) |
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Sue in Somerset | Report | 7 Jul 2008 23:56 |
Can't see any evidence of my idea though! |
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Sue in Somerset | Report | 7 Jul 2008 23:57 |
aha |
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Kate | Report | 7 Jul 2008 23:59 |
Just thinking out loud . . . |
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Kate | Report | 8 Jul 2008 00:02 |
And as Claire said, Rosanna (also noted down as Rosannah) Barnsley appears in the births index: |
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Kate | Report | 8 Jul 2008 00:09 |
Interesting - Rosanna is younger than she "should" be in 1861. (Assuming it is the same lot.) |
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Dixidan | Report | 8 Jul 2008 10:36 |
Thanks everyone for your assistance |