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Surname Variations and Corruptions
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Carole | Report | 29 Aug 2009 21:58 |
Is there a list anywhere of accepted surname variations? |
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Carole | Report | 29 Aug 2009 22:39 |
Thanks Somerset Girl |
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Teresa | Report | 29 Aug 2009 22:49 |
Carol, I have learnt that spelling of names and dates vary. The year of births etc can be different by a few years on one doc to another, so you just have to sift through using varients of names and dates. Hope this helps. |
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Teresa | Report | 29 Aug 2009 22:51 |
try this: www.freebmd.rootsweb.com |
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Kate | Report | 29 Aug 2009 23:21 |
I sometimes find it helps to sort of play around with the word - saying it clearly, mumbling it, putting the stress on different syllables etc. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 29 Aug 2009 23:37 |
As a lot of people were illiterate they couldn't check what was being written down by someone else, so spellings changed according to who was doing the recording. Accents played a big part in how things were written down too. |
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Carole | Report | 29 Aug 2009 23:42 |
Thanks Terri |
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Carole | Report | 29 Aug 2009 23:53 |
Fabulous to find two more answers have arrived whilst I was trying to explain my dilemma to Terri. |
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Carole | Report | 30 Aug 2009 00:11 |
Thank you all for your help to date. |
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Kathryn | Report | 30 Aug 2009 09:58 |
Just by saying it in some strong accents I don't think it's that much of a leap to hear it as Moscrov with a soft v. Try a bad scottish accent (mine is really bad!). So it's probably not much more of a jump to a harder last syllable, and voila - Moscrop. And with poor handwriting | can see how they could resemble each other on written documents. But I absolutely understand your dislike of the uncertainty, things like that really niggle at me. I guess the only way round is to have a note to the effect that the line from there back is missing a definitive proof, but giving all your (very strong, by the sounds of it) reasons for believing so. |
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Carole | Report | 30 Aug 2009 11:27 |
Thank you Kate |
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Annina | Report | 30 Aug 2009 12:44 |
Hi Carole, just reading through your thread,and it occured to me that if you say Musgrave with a stinking head cold, it might sound like Muscrop. |