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Offline karenlesog

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Tollerfield spelling!!
« on: Saturday 06 March 10 15:36 GMT (UK) »
If anyone has got stuck and spent numerous hours trying to find the name ‘Tollerfield’ on a census like I have been, then you might find this useful.

I have found that sometimes the name has been listed as Sollerfield, Totterfield, and even Sotterfield.

Hope this helps someone and saves him or her hours of searching.

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Re: Tollerfield spelling!!
« Reply #1 on: Friday 15 October 10 22:23 BST (UK) »
Hi Karen,


How's your research going ? Have you managed to get further back than John and Elizabeth in 1791 yet ?

I have a hypothesis that John's parents were John (b. 1762) and Elizabeth (b.1762) SEAMER/SEYMER, but am still looking to confirm this. IF it is true, then I think they may have had another son - James (b.1804) who went on to marry Jane GOVER.

Any further info on this would be very interesting.

Sadly I still haven't linked this line to my own ... although I'm please that the Yorks line to which your family belong is now firmly routed in Dorset; which puts us in the same vicinity !


Best wishes,

Paul
Tollerfield/Torraville/Torravel/Tollifield/Tallerfield/ etc ... any name that could in fact be a transcription of TOLLERFIELD

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Re: Tollerfield spelling!!
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 17 October 10 20:17 BST (UK) »
The delights of having transcribers who can't differentiate a copperplate S; T&L.More seriously though I found the connection between my Somerset ancestors and my immediate family in Lincolnshire as a result of the Somerset militia being stationed there in the 1790s. Were Dorset units stationed in Yorkshire in the same period?
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Re: Tollerfield spelling!!
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 23 October 10 14:01 BST (UK) »
Just to complicate things.  The Norman surname D'Uberville was corrupted to Durbyfield; I had always assumed that Hardy made that one up, but there were Durbyfields in Wool, Dorset.  Could Tollerfield have once been Tollerville?

After typing this I saw the footnote to your message and se that you are well aware of this, sorry!!
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