Genealogy Chat

1861 census - George Davenport is the chap I am interested in..... and I think the mother is helping me out here by already giving me her maiden name as she looks to me to be LUCY SMITH DAVENPORT. Can you confirm this for me? I have the record if someone would be kind enough to cast their eyes over it!

Will go on now and check for you Ali x

thanks sweetheart!! xx

Definitely - Lucy Smith Davenport. Dea x

thanks Dea!! :O) Appreciate that as I can't find the marriage it might explain a few things!! xx

I'm too late cos I'm slow but yes thats the name Ali x

Diana I have found this marriage does it help ? thought the year was about right. Germaine x Marriages Dec 1850 Davenport William James Kensington 3 288 Johnson Lucy Smith Kensington 3 288

I just looked for the marriage and couldn't find it either - Do you want to give a few more details and I will have another search? Dea x

Germaine..... i love you!! :O) Me thinks that's them and now realising she had a rather bizarre middle name!! :O) xx

Your welcome Do you think it could be her mothers maiden name? Germaine x

Hi Diana Just a thought - but Smith might be Lucy's mother's maiden name rather than her own. Obviously, she could have kept her own maiden name upon marriage and used it as a middle name, but I do have quite a few who have been baptised with their mother's maiden name for a middle name. Mandy x

You often find that middle names like this often come from the surname of a mother, grandmother, or g. grandmother etc... Somewhere back in time you will find a connection to a 'Smith' Deax

Could be I suppose - will need to keep looking!! xx

Diana I have found them in 1851 boy that took some finding. Germaine x Record Name Estimated Birth Year Birthplace Relationship Civil Parish County/Island Record Lucy Dorcuport abt 1831 Shepperton, Middlesex, England Wife St George Hanover Square Middlesex Record Wm J Dorcuport abt 1829 Shepperton, Middlesex, England Head St George Hanover Square Middlesex This on IGI think it is her. LUCY SMITH JOHNSON Female -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Event(s): Birth: Christening: 15 MAR 1831 Saint Martin In The Fields, Westminster, London, England Death: Burial: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parents: Father: WILLIAM JOHNSON Family Mother: ANN

There's a christening for Lucy on the IGI. Heather

God you lot are brilliant!! xx

Oh aren't we just LOL Germaine x

Just to confuse things slightly: I have a lady who married into my family with the middle name smith, no idea where from though, Also I have the children of one of my so many great aunties, who took her surname as a middle name, and guess whay, that was Davenport!

How funny!! Davenport is a famous name in history (not my lot) so maybe she just wanted to hold onto it!! Pink who is seriously thinking of bringing her maiden name in and being double barrelled now for the pure fun of it now I'm divorced!! :O)