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Title: Help with this surname.
Post by: BristolClark on Monday 16 December 19 00:16 GMT (UK)
Hello All,

Just came across this uncertain surname in the parish records of Treborough in Somerset.
It's a marriage between a William Clark of Old Cleeve and an Anne R??tion of Dunster.
I can't for the life of me decipher what Anne's surname is supposed to be. Rueition? Rueltion?

Any clues?

Title: Re: Help with this surname.
Post by: Gadget on Monday 16 December 19 00:20 GMT (UK)
Hi

Not sure but I'd guess that it starts with an old style  Q not an R. The th from the line below is making it look like an R. 

Gadget
Title: Re: Help with this surname.
Post by: Rena on Monday 16 December 19 00:37 GMT (UK)
It looks like Anne Question.

Aha -  look at this Genuki page:
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Dunster/BurDun_1746

21 FEB 1747, Ann, QUESTION,
Title: Re: Help with this surname.
Post by: BristolClark on Monday 16 December 19 00:42 GMT (UK)
Hi

Not sure but I'd guess that it starts with an old style  Q not an R. The th from the line below is making it look like an R. 

Gadget

And it's as simple as that! It didn't even cross my mind to think it a Q rather than an R. It looks like the woman in question is Anne Question, baptised 26th December 1698 in Dunster.

Thank you very much for your help.  :)
Title: Re: Help with this surname.
Post by: BristolClark on Monday 16 December 19 00:43 GMT (UK)
It looks like Anne Question.

Aha -  look at this Genuki page:
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Dunster/BurDun_1746

21 FEB 1747, Ann, QUESTION,

And thank you to you for your input. Most probably a relative of sorts, albeit a generation down.
Title: Re: Help with this surname.
Post by: a-l on Monday 16 December 19 11:30 GMT (UK)
My first glance was Question but it didn't seem right  ;D
Title: Re: Help with this surname.
Post by: BristolClark on Monday 16 December 19 16:46 GMT (UK)
My first glance was Question but it didn't seem right  ;D

At least you could decipher it.  ;D
I've genuinely never heard of that surname before. You learn something new everyday.
Title: Re: Help with this surname.
Post by: a-l on Monday 16 December 19 20:57 GMT (UK)
My first glance was Question but it didn't seem right  ;D

At least you could decipher it.  ;D
I've genuinely never heard of that surname before. You learn something new everyday.
 

Neither have I that's why I thought it must be wrong  ;D
Title: Re: Help with this surname.
Post by: craggagh on Monday 16 December 19 22:18 GMT (UK)
Hello -

FindMyPast has Ann Question marrying William Clarke on 25th October 1718 in Treborough Parish, Somerset.

craggagh.