« Reply #45 on: Friday 23 June 23 18:23 BST (UK) »
I quite liked the Kevin Clifton one. I keep hoping we get Steve McFadden and David jason do WDYTYA one day.
Also in more recent times as well, there will be a number of families in a cluster of villages who have the same surnames, and this may mean they were cousins or more distant ones and they wed into families of the same surname or families with another surname that is known in the area that is not as common as Smith or Brown. For instance a village with a number of families with the surname Keeble/Bridges/Newson and Fruer in Suffolk will have members of the families marrying into each others extended family. So you may find 2 people of the surname Keeble marry 2 people of the surname Newson, and they may have been siblings marrying siblings, or more distant relations, or even coincidence. My ancestor William Mayhew wed Eliz Bridges, and his cousin wed a Edward Bridges but that does not necessarily mean Edward and Eliz were siblings, they may have been cousins/2nd cousins or it was just coincidence.
Researching:
LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain
