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Offline Leanne.

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It would be good if
« on: Friday 30 August 13 11:11 BST (UK) »
everyone had to use their birth name on all legal documents. Makes it hard when people use their middle names or names they were know as.
Recently I have discovered someone who used her partners last name on a census, they weren't married but were living together as husband and wife.
Researching Whitby from England & Australia, Taylor from Scotland & Australia, Norman/Normand from France & Australia. Other last names in my tree Raeburn, Appleby, Ingram, Lynch, Hayes, Baker, Ketley, Newman, Dobson, Holdsworth, Summerill, Summerell.

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Re: It would be good if
« Reply #1 on: Friday 30 August 13 17:05 BST (UK) »
I think it would be easier if everyone's certificates of anything had a full genealogy attached!  As for names - in my experience they get spelt a variety of ways, middle names are dropped - or invented!  The worst ones are where family members are known by a nickname which has nothing to do with their real name.  My grandmother, Annie Eliza, was called "Peachy" and one of her brothers, whose marriage I'm still looking for, called his wife "Doll" but her real name was Florence!
Chowns in Buckinghamshire
Broad, Eplett & Pope in St Ervan/St Columb Major, Cornwall
Browning & Moore in Cambridge, St Andrew the Less
Emms, Mealing & Purvey in Cotswolds, Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham in Norfolk
Higho in London
Matthews & Nash in Whichford, Warwickshire
Smoothy, Willsher in Coggeshall & Chelmsford, Essex

Offline pinefamily

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Re: It would be good if
« Reply #2 on: Friday 30 August 13 22:54 BST (UK) »
Our ancestors wrote on the back of their photo's, and not just "Mother", or "Father", or first name only.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

Offline Mark1973

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Re: It would be good if
« Reply #3 on: Monday 02 September 13 13:33 BST (UK) »
I think they knew it would make it too easy for us  ;D
Lavender - Ruislip Middlesex / Mitcham Surrey
Ad(d)away - Burnham Buckinghamshire / Mitcham Surrey
Abrehart/Abrahart - Edmonton Middlesex / Mitcham Surrey / Victoria Australia
Lindsell - Braintree Essex / Morpeth Durham / Islington london
Donohoe/Donohue & Roche - Graiguecullen, Queens/Carlow Ireland

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Re: It would be good if
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 03 September 13 02:02 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Mark1973 on Monday 02 September 13 13:33 BST (UK)
I think they knew it would make it too easy for us  ;D
Yeah .... right on ...... we would not have rootschat and life would be sooooo boring. :( :(
Joe
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Offline Stuart273

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Re: It would be good if
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 03 September 13 17:16 BST (UK) »
Every member of the family had an unusual, easily identifiable first name, such as Denmilne. Made tracing him so much easier  ;D
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Scotland - Henderson, Rutherford, Tofts, Green, Philp/Philip, Cook
England/Wales - Helps, Jones, Wright, Petheram (Axbridge and surrounding areas, Somerset)
Canada: Rutherford, Green
New Zealand: Rutherford

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Re: It would be good if
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 03 September 13 17:20 BST (UK) »
...there was a lot more information online.

Offline Stuart273

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Re: It would be good if
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 03 September 13 17:31 BST (UK) »
scotlandspeople.com made images available right up to 2012.

There was an englandspeople.com, a walespeople.com and an irelandspeople.com which all operated the same way as scotlandspeople
General:
Scotland - Henderson, Rutherford, Tofts, Green, Philp/Philip, Cook
England/Wales - Helps, Jones, Wright, Petheram (Axbridge and surrounding areas, Somerset)
Canada: Rutherford, Green
New Zealand: Rutherford

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Re: It would be good if
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 03 September 13 17:53 BST (UK) »
The Irish enumerators gave the county of birth instead of just "Ireland"  :-\
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