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Title: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: bendywendy on Thursday 14 February 13 10:55 GMT (UK)
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
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: aghadowey on Thursday 14 February 13 12:10 GMT (UK)
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
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: bendywendy on Thursday 14 February 13 12:11 GMT (UK)
thanks,
b.
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: aghadowey on Thursday 14 February 13 12:15 GMT (UK)
Using free FindMyPast search there's an Overseas birth registration for Rupert E L Featherstonhaugh in France 1906/1910. Parents should be listed.
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: bendywendy on Thursday 14 February 13 12:44 GMT (UK)
once again many thanks, that looks like the correct one.
b.
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: Viktoria on Thursday 14 February 13 20:23 GMT (UK)
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.
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: bendywendy on Thursday 14 February 13 20:25 GMT (UK)
Hi Vikotoria
As far as I know it is pronounced... feather...ston.. auf

b.
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: Viktoria on Thursday 14 February 13 20:33 GMT (UK)
Thanks, Viktoria.
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: dawnsh on Thursday 14 February 13 21:09 GMT (UK)
It can be pronounced Fanshaw
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: Viktoria on Thursday 14 February 13 23:00 GMT (UK)
Thanks dawnsh, can you imagine the French trying to say Featherstonehaugh?  Viktoria.
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: aghadowey on Thursday 14 February 13 23:03 GMT (UK)
http://slb-ltsu.hull.ac.uk/awe/index.php?title=Cowper

http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Featherstonhaugh
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: hepburn on Thursday 14 February 13 23:12 GMT (UK)
Ive always known it as Fanshaw too
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: bendywendy on Friday 15 February 13 10:14 GMT (UK)
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.
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: nomad1 on Friday 14 June 13 19:34 BST (UK)
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?
Title: Re: Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh - Birth Paris 1909 - Parents ???
Post by: wpaulf on Saturday 22 June 13 14:19 BST (UK)
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.