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Help please to decipher name
« on: Friday 04 June 10 17:30 BST (UK) »
I have obtained a great grandfather's name from the London Hospital archives but we are not sure what it is!  Can anyone help to decipher it please.
The first name is Blacke or Blacks (even Black) but not sure at all of the second name.  I think it begins with D and has an i towards the end. Could be Dennison???
Any help would be much appreciated.

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Re: Help please to decipher name
« Reply #1 on: Friday 04 June 10 17:35 BST (UK) »
Looks like Blacke Dennison to me.

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Re: Help please to decipher name
« Reply #2 on: Friday 04 June 10 17:44 BST (UK) »
Another vote for Dennison
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Help please to decipher name
« Reply #3 on: Friday 04 June 10 17:49 BST (UK) »
Gosh.  Such speedy replies. 
I think it's Dennison too. 
I'm also assuming that Dennison is his first name and Black his second name but as I've not been able to find a Dennison Black and definately no Black Dennison's on ancestry, I wondered if I was deciphering it correctly.
Thank you so much for helping.


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Re: Help please to decipher name
« Reply #4 on: Friday 04 June 10 17:51 BST (UK) »
WHat sort of dates?
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Help please to decipher name
« Reply #5 on: Friday 04 June 10 17:53 BST (UK) »
My father-in-law's biological mother was admitted to the West Ham Sick Hospital in February 1919 and gave birth in May 1919.  She gave this name as the father of her son.

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Re: Help please to decipher name
« Reply #6 on: Friday 04 June 10 18:18 BST (UK) »
Should it be Blake rather than Black(e)?

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Re: Help please to decipher name
« Reply #7 on: Friday 04 June 10 18:22 BST (UK) »
Without sounding too pessimistic - it is possible that the name was a confection....

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Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: Help please to decipher name
« Reply #8 on: Friday 04 June 10 18:25 BST (UK) »
Or it could be a nick name perhaps a blacksmith ???
Middlesex   Burnett  Clark   Potter    Cleary    Avery    Moore Howard Jode Keating
Norfolk    Rudd    Twite    Hudson    Chapman Moore Spink Adams
Suffolk    Horne    Cadge    Sutton    King    Adams
Essex    Cable    Wright                         Cumberland  Forbes
Somerset Clarke (pre 1800)                  Cambridgeshire Muncey Parcell
Devon  Flashman                                   Limerick    Hannigan
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