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Research in Other Countries => Europe => Topic started by: bendywendy on Thursday 14 February 13 10:55 GMT (UK)
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Hi everyone
Can anyone help with finding a Birth for Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - said to be in Paris 1909 and his parents names please.
This man was an English jazz saxophonist.
Can anyone help with finding this info please.
Kind regards
bendywendy
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Not confirmed yet but this might be his parents-
http://featherstone.org/getperson.php?personID=I20654&tree=Featherstone
Rupert Lee Featherstonhaugh died 1929-
http://www.featherstone-society.com/Wills/part%20trans/numbers/393-411_472_748.htm
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thanks,
b.
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Using free FindMyPast search there's an Overseas birth registration for Rupert E L Featherstonhaugh in France 1906/1910. Parents should be listed.
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once again many thanks, that looks like the correct one.
b.
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I heard him play in Manchester in the early 1950`s.
I had really gone to hear a M/C band called "The Saints", who often played at The Bodega on Cross street. They were amateurs but very good.
If my memory is correct( and it isn`t always these days) another band whose drummer was Gene Krupa was also on the same bill.
Can`t help with your enquiry but the name --Featherstonehaugh-- brought back memories.
We were not sure how it ought to be pronounced, just as it seems or as Cholmondeley is Chumly ,would it be something like Fearson?Viktoria.
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Hi Vikotoria
As far as I know it is pronounced... feather...ston.. auf
b.
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Thanks, Viktoria.
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It can be pronounced Fanshaw
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Thanks dawnsh, can you imagine the French trying to say Featherstonehaugh? Viktoria.
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http://slb-ltsu.hull.ac.uk/awe/index.php?title=Cowper
http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Featherstonhaugh
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Ive always known it as Fanshaw too
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Hi
According to the Featherstone Society it is pronounced Featherstone Haw.
I would add that accents from many decades ago would have had an impact upon the pronunciation, so the French could well have struggled with saying this name ;)
b.
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The Featherstone society website has some info regarding Buddy Featherstonhaugh and his ancestry. What is your interest in him? I am distantly related and may be able to tell you more about his family history. Did you know he was also a formula 1 racing driver?
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It has never been known as Fanshaw (apart from some cartoons in newspapers, Fanshaw is a surname it it's own right, and is no relation the Featherstonhaugh, or featherstonhoff, as sometimes written, as pronounced. If there is such a thing as the correct pronunciation it is known in the North East, the source of the surname, as Featherston haw, there are several place names ending in haugh, in the Tyne valley.