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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Dorset => Topic started by: karenlesog on Saturday 06 March 10 15:36 GMT (UK)
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If anyone has got stuck and spent numerous hours trying to find the name ‘Tollerfield’ on a census like I have been, then you might find this useful.
I have found that sometimes the name has been listed as Sollerfield, Totterfield, and even Sotterfield.
Hope this helps someone and saves him or her hours of searching.
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Hi Karen,
How's your research going ? Have you managed to get further back than John and Elizabeth in 1791 yet ?
I have a hypothesis that John's parents were John (b. 1762) and Elizabeth (b.1762) SEAMER/SEYMER, but am still looking to confirm this. IF it is true, then I think they may have had another son - James (b.1804) who went on to marry Jane GOVER.
Any further info on this would be very interesting.
Sadly I still haven't linked this line to my own ... although I'm please that the Yorks line to which your family belong is now firmly routed in Dorset; which puts us in the same vicinity !
Best wishes,
Paul
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The delights of having transcribers who can't differentiate a copperplate S; T&L.More seriously though I found the connection between my Somerset ancestors and my immediate family in Lincolnshire as a result of the Somerset militia being stationed there in the 1790s. Were Dorset units stationed in Yorkshire in the same period?
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Just to complicate things. The Norman surname D'Uberville was corrupted to Durbyfield; I had always assumed that Hardy made that one up, but there were Durbyfields in Wool, Dorset. Could Tollerfield have once been Tollerville?
After typing this I saw the footnote to your message and se that you are well aware of this, sorry!!