billows/bellows/bellowes

[rosie99]

The free index on findmypast has a 'Parish Collection' christening at Spetisbury in 1777 for a John Bellows but you will need credits to view it.  Spetisbury isn't that far from Poole 

Rosie

[marionjean]

i had some credits on find my past and i found a john bellows bapt 17/1/1771 and he was son of john and mary
if only i could find that i am going the right way it is so difficult i do not think that anybody else has gone back that far

[rosie99]

Have you tried tracing forwards the John Bellows that you found on FindMyPast

Rosie

[marionjean]

sorry to sound stupid rosie but what is FindMyPast

[..claire..]

Hi

The baptism of John Bellows in Spetbury  maybe the wrong one.

June 28th 1878 Spetbury, burial, John  son of John and Mary Bellows,

States he is an infant~would 18mnth old child be classed as an infant?

claire

[..claire..]

Hi

FindMyPast =  find my past

claire

[..claire..]

Found an interesting baptism

14 MARCH 1792 ,POOLE  Jonadab Bellows son of Jonadab and Hannah Billows aged 17 years.

A tree on An****ry also has this person marrying Ann Lacy.

claire

[marionjean]

if this jonadab bellows married ann lacy his full name would have been given on the marriage banns. when you look at other marriages you find that jonadab biloows is how it is written.
i dispute the tree on ancestry  as it says on the marriage banns that is was a john bellows who married ann lacy you will find they did not name any of their children jonadab and on an inquest for a death witnesses included john bellows and william lacy are named. jonadab would have been written as jonadab on a legal docs

[rosie99]

I am not saying that Jonadab is right. 

A person can call themselves what they like providing it is not for fraudulent purposes.  If it was Jonadab that married Ann Lacy he could call himself John without changing his name legally and could continue to call himself John without legally changing his name. 

There was a post on here the other day about name changes, I'll try and find the link

Rosie