« Reply #2 on: Thursday 02 September 10 00:20 BST (UK) »
I re-iterate this message 'Do not give up'.
Several years ago I was persuing a family line and could not figure out where a certain chap called ...... Bright had gone. I searched and searched but to no avail. He came from Newcastle and then just disappeared. I thought he might have died but the BMD didn't help. As his Great Grandfather was from London I looked again at the London records for that time.
Guess what, I found him under the spelling Broyitt in a marriage in London.
Imagin the scenario. 'What is your name' 'Bright' (with a Geordie accent becomes 'Broyitt'). The Parish clerks were not always so clever as to interpret accents and many misspellings must have occurred when the person in question either married, had children, or died, away from their roots. Especially when the informants themselves, may not have been literate.
Just a thought to bear in mind.
Pennine
Bell, Brodsworth, Felkirk, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire<br />Bright, Eyre, Jessop, Wilkinson, Sheffield, Yorkshire<br />Fielding, Lound Retford, Lincolnshire and Sheffield, Yorkshire<br />Law, Felkirk, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire<br />Lister, Flockton, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire<br />Mitchell, Langsett, Nr. Penistone Yorkshire.<br />Walton, Cudworth, Barnsley Yorkshire.<br />Stanger, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire.<br />Gratwick, London and Kent<br />Fahy, Limerick, Southern Ireland
