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Offline dicko99

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can anyone decipher this middle name?
« on: Sunday 25 May 25 10:38 BST (UK) »
It's on the back of an old photo I bought yesterday.

The photograph was based on Newsham, near Blyth.

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Re: can anyone decipher this middle name?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 25 May 25 10:45 BST (UK) »
Menear.  This is a common surname in Cornwall.

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Re: can anyone decipher this middle name?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 25 May 25 10:47 BST (UK) »
I agree.
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Cummins, Miskelly(IRELAND + NZ) ,Leggett (SFK + NFK ENGLAND + NZ),Purdy ( NBL ENGLAND + NZ ), Shaw YKS, LANCs + NZ), Holdsworth(LINCS +LANCS + NZ), Moloney, Dean, Fitzpatrick, ( County Down,IRE) Newby(NBL.ENG, Costello(IRE), Ivers, Murray(IRE),Reay(NBL.ENG) Reid (BERW.SCOTLAND)

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« Reply #3 on: Sunday 25 May 25 10:54 BST (UK) »
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The photograph was based on Newsham, near Blyth

Cornwall is a long way from Blyth! 

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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 25 May 25 10:59 BST (UK) »
1901 has a Nellie Minnear born 1893 Newsham**, Northumberland
She married Robert G French 1910 as Eleanor Mennear
Remarried 1916 to William Collins.

EDIT 1911 living at Willow Tnce Newsham Northd

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Cummins, Miskelly(IRELAND + NZ) ,Leggett (SFK + NFK ENGLAND + NZ),Purdy ( NBL ENGLAND + NZ ), Shaw YKS, LANCs + NZ), Holdsworth(LINCS +LANCS + NZ), Moloney, Dean, Fitzpatrick, ( County Down,IRE) Newby(NBL.ENG, Costello(IRE), Ivers, Murray(IRE),Reay(NBL.ENG) Reid (BERW.SCOTLAND)

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« Reply #5 on: Sunday 25 May 25 11:00 BST (UK) »
Various censuses show quite a few Menear' surnames (and variations) in Newsham. Blyth.
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Re: can anyone decipher this middle name?
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 25 May 25 11:05 BST (UK) »
Quote from: trish1120 on Sunday 25 May 25 10:59 BST (UK)
1901 has a Nellie Minnear born 1893 Newsham**, Northumberland
She married Robert G French 1910 as Eleanor Mennear
Remarried 1916 to William Collins.
That looks about right.
Pratt, Smith, Jay, Wyatt - Essex
Dickens, Betteridge - London, Oxfordshire
Perrins, Bourne, Hickman, Fletcher - Aylesbury, Stoke upon Trent

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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 25 May 25 11:06 BST (UK) »
Beautiful photo and woman.
Both times she married older men.
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« Reply #8 on: Sunday 25 May 25 11:26 BST (UK) »
Quote from: trish1120 on Sunday 25 May 25 10:59 BST (UK)
1901 has a Nellie Minnear born 1893 Newsham**, Northumberland
She married Robert G French 1910 as Eleanor Mennear
Remarried 1916 to William Collins.

Note that her parents were both born in Cornwall.

It could be that her father (coal miner - hewer) moved from the Cornish mines to the Northimberland coal mines.

Add - birthplace looks like St Austell  - most famous for  china clay but  also tin and copper
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