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There's also the option to add a middle name at Confirmation, at least Anglican ones. I was offered (but declined) this in the 60s. I don't know if this was common in earlier times.

Quote from: chris_49 on Wednesday 27 November 24 18:30 GMT (UK)

Quote from: Wexflyer on Wednesday 27 November 24 18:16 GMT (UK)

The famous patriots, Skin the Goat and Fr. Murphy.

I thought Father Murphy of Old Kilcormack was a celibate priest? James Fitzharris did have children thiough.

OK . But that's the Fr John Murphy I meant.


It says in your family tree... which to me means more than direct ancestor.
And I mean the other Fr. Murphy, who led the final charge at the battle of Arklow.

I keep seeing this thread and thought I'd mention that I'm a fifth cousin of actress Charlotte Rampling. She may protest, but she is descended almost entirely in the female line from John Skelcey of Cubbington, brother of my ancestor Thomas Skelcey from whom my mother is descended in the paternal line.

I hesitated about mentioning this, but her short autobiography provides details that confirm her immediate ancestors.

Now proved by DNA actually. I'm proved related to John Skelcey descendants, and although there's no match yet for Charlotte, she is descended from him entirely in the female line.

Welcome to Rootschat LinndiLoo. I'm sorry I've only just seen your post, I must have missed the usual update email from Rootschat.

I'm sorry I have no more information on Minnie. I'm glad you found George Thomas Cox interesting but I gather he is not yor ancestor. Chris

MyHeritage Smart Matches can often be very wild guesses - different names, wrong continent .But the other day I was informed of a relative matched with someone I had heard of - and not a nice person, either.

Edwin George Fox 1892 married my relative Emma Stanley in 1915 - they had no children, he died in 1956 and she remarried. Emma was Carol02's great aunt, but she won't remember Edwin. Yet MyHeritage is suggesting he might be the same person as George Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, landowner and fascist sympathiser, interned in 1940. Scary!

It's true that Wikipedia says that he was born London 1890 but oddly registered in Chesterfield as plain George Henry L Fox, quoting FreeBMD as source. However we now have the GRO births, which tell us that this was George Henry Levi Fox, mother's maiden name Young, whereas Pitt-Rivers' mother was a Thynne.

I looked up Pitt-Rivers on FreeBMD and although there are plenty of marriages and deaths, there are no births at all before the C20th, the first ones George's sons. Did the aristocracy deign to believe they were above the law in regard to registrations? i tried him as Rivers, no luck).

Anyway, never trust a MyH smart match. Chris