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Title: Surname interests
Post by: JeanLillian on Friday 14 January 05 21:47 GMT (UK)

Steeple Langford names
Dowdell, Down, Weston, Diaper Petty
 Shergold, Blake, Foyle
 

Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: lawra on Saturday 08 July 06 22:59 BST (UK)

hi

do any of your 'holloway's' spelt as hollowaye
i've discovered that mine changed the spelling by dropping the 'e' around 1609.

Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: JeanLillian on Saturday 15 July 06 08:17 BST (UK)

Hi , No Holloway as spelt,  ut i have now discovered  have gone the wrong way and the Wyle Dowdells holloways etc are not mine
 Regards Jean

Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: Reginald E. on Sunday 20 December 09 13:24 GMT (UK)

I have a Mary Naomi Pearce who married a Frank Shergold in 1859. Mary's father was born in Steple Langford. Soes this connect with your research?

Reg.

Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: JeanLillian on Sunday 20 December 09 15:11 GMT (UK)

Hi
no connection to my Shergolds that i know of.
Good luck and Happy Xmas

Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: toby webb on Sunday 20 December 09 23:11 GMT (UK)

From personal experience I do urge you not to ignore variations in the spelling  of one's family name. If a name was to be added to a parish register by a priest, he wrote down what he heard. In any case many of his flock, being illiterate, were in no position to tell him how the name was spelt One s or 2 ss. I have seen both used for the same individual.  A strong West country accent could also render an F as a V. I have seen this too.
Toby.

Title: Re: Surname interests
Post by: JeanLillian on Monday 21 December 09 07:48 GMT (UK)

 Hi Toby
i always take spellings into consideration, when searching,
Happy Xmas
Jean