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I need help with the name of the ship that William Weatherhead was on, it looks like Personola? but I can't find a ship under that name, any help or tips would be much appreciated, thank you!

I live in the wider Tyneside area but haven't heard of any 'Cottage Homes' there but these links  might be relevant:

https://ainsworthspark.com/projects/mariners-homes-tynemouth/

https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/trinity-house-almshouses-tynemouth-5260

Also

https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Tynemouth/  and scroll down to 'Scattered Homes'

(add - the 'Scattered Homes' seem likely if your relatives were young girls)



Gadget

From what I can see they started calling them "scattered homes" after 1893, so this would have been earlier. I was thinking of asking the archive in that area if they have any records.

Gadget, Cottage Homes were a spin off from the workhouses. They were meant to get children off the streets and away from the bad influences of some people in the workhouse. The idea was to give the children some education and train them for future employment. As with the workhouses, some cottages homes were better than others.

Thank you for the info, you are right. Their mother died in the workhouse in 1871 and I can't find them afterwards in any census records, marriage/death records. So I was wondering if that's where they might have gone?

Thank you so much for this info! Have you ever come across a name, that has middle names not associated (that I could find) with the family? For example, I have a 4x great aunt, that was christened by the name of Barbara Christopher Fardy Ferguson Weatherhead. The "Christopher Fardy Ferguson" part of the name confuses me as those names are not in the family tree, could this be a friend of the family or someone he worked with. Barbara's father was a sailor/mariner in the 18th century.

I found that if there was a fourth son it was named after the father's oldest brother, similarly fourth daughter named after it's mother's oldest sister.

A family I researched had eighteen children and I recognised many of the youngest children's names as being:-

(1) the father's employer and
(2) many of the mother's girl friends, who were daughters of influential locals..
(3) If a widower married again his new wife would name a daughter after the first wife if she had died prior to a daughter carrying her name.

Hi there,

I was wondering if there are any Scottish naming patterns? Like naming the first born son based after the father's father..i.e. John Smith, son of James Smith and Jane Smith, James Smith's father's name was John Smith. Hope I explained that right..Thank you for your time.

Tamara