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Europe / Italian Immigrants - Brentani
« on: Friday 08 May 09 13:09 BST (UK)  »
I would be grateful if anyone could offer information on the Brentani family, specifically Dominico Brentani, who came to Britain, I believe, in the 1820's and settled in Sheffield, Yorkshire. Dominico was born c.1813 and by the 1841 census was a Pork Butcher in Sheffield, married (in 1833) to a Sheffield girl called Eliza Boardman. He died in 1860.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« on: Wednesday 21 March 07 09:25 GMT (UK)  »
If I might reverse the idea of this thread slightly - I've noticed that a very common name of today 'Michael' was rarely used in Victorian times. Is it a 'modern' name? Enter 'Michael' without a surname in most search facilities and you get very few returns. Does anyone agree, or am I just looking in the wrong places?

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The Lighter Side / Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« on: Tuesday 20 March 07 18:16 GMT (UK)  »
The most unusual name in my wife's maternal line is Cruce Barracliffe Launders - variously transcribed/recorded on birth/census documents as Kruce, Cruice B., etc., but I read it as Cruise. There doesn't appear to be any Barracliffes in the family line so it isn't a 'handed down' surname.
He died aged 18 of Phthisis (TB or Consumption).

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