Witness name help pls Completed tks

[majm]

I am not looking at given names on the 1890 Sydney Sands Directory, just some possible surnames
Bilton, Binkins, Binskin, Birkbeck, Birket, Birkett, Bisiker, Black, Blacker, Blacket, Blackett, Bladen, Bladon,  Blain, Blair, Blake, Blakeley ***, Blakers, Blakey, Blanks, Blenkin, Blinkhane, Blinkhore, Block, Bluthdon, Blush, Blyth, Blythe,

Should I try the “R” surnames next ?


There’s a Thomas M Blakeley at 18 Crown Road, Sydney

Cheers,  JM

[Lady Di]

Phew - that's a long list. Thanks for those. 

Unfortunately none of those seem to be a match though 

Anyone else see a name there that looks about right?

As Prue mentioned, it seems to be a short name like Black but the more I look at it I can't see anything that makes sense.

Di

[heedrapper]

If you look at the h in ‘Thos’ the top of the letter is looped. Same applies to the 2nd letter of the surname which looks like an ‘l’. The 3rd and the last letter are not looped at the top, which to me would rule out f, h, k and l. Having said that I’m still as confused as when I started.

[Lady Di]

 

Yes, I'm just as confused!

I think he just had terrible handwriting - probably couldn't even spell his own name so just made a scrawl pretending he knew what he was writing 

[majm]

Were the family seriously wealthy or have French Connections perhaps ?

There's BIARD as in George d'Aunet BIARD, Consul General for France, at the Bond Street Chambers, with his private residence at Ferry St Hunter's Hill.... (in Samds 1890)

But then I would not expect a high society wedding at St Barnabas in 1890 .... (only because my own tree has rellies born in George St West, and also in Raglan St Darlington in that decade and they were van proprietors) ....

Cheers, JM

[Billyblue]

I see BENIN or BENIK.  I favour the former.



Dawn M

[Lady Di]

Ohhh not, def not wealthy.

They were just simple country folk from out Forbes way originally (or at least his family was). I have no idea quite why they ended up at St B's for their marriage (unless they eloped!!)

Certainly can't see or believe a connection with the French gentleman.

Interesting proposition all the same  

I see BENIN or BENIK. I favour the former.



Dawn M

Now those are both new names I wouldn't have thought of - I'd been looking at BL....

Wonder if either surname is on the electoral roll etc.

Thanks Dawn - certainly makes me look at the name in a different light which is just what I needed

Cheers

Di

[sandra70]

Hi
Another possibility
Thos B White - or perhaps not.... ?

[Richard Knott]

A Thomas Francis Bethell was born in NSW in 1855. Could it have been spelled Bethill?

Richard