Can anyone help with the first name of this witness please? "Somebody" WALKER. Thanks in advance.
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29-07-2018, 6:29 PM #1
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29-07-2018, 6:50 PM #2
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And also, 1886, the first names of these two MAYFIELDS - I thought the bottom one might be Jennie or Jeanie but a search of the 1881 & 1891 census returns has so far, drawn a blank......
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29-07-2018, 8:38 PM #3
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Mitch, are these online? Even though the signatures are the bit you're querying I always think it's easier to look at the whole page.
PamVulcan XH558 - “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
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29-07-2018, 9:40 PM #4
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Pam the first is a marriage at Crich, Derbyshire on the 12th July 1794 between John WHEATCROFT & Frances WALKER and is on Ancestry website.
The second is Nottinghamshire 1886 and isn't online:
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29-07-2018, 10:57 PM #5
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For the two Mayfield names, what about Humphry and James or Jamie? The first one might otherwise be Jeffrey but there don't seem to be enough "f"s. pwholt
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29-07-2018, 11:00 PM #6
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For the second marriage, how about Humphry Mayfield?
I'm pretty certain that other spellings of Humphry are available.
p.s. Just noticed that some bounder posted while I was typing. I DID NOT COPY!!!!!
A further thought (because FreeBMD has no BMD for a Hump* Mayfield between 18541 and 1891, is the middle bit that 'p' shape that you get when you write two 's' together? But then I can't think of a name that begins H and has two 's' in it.
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30-07-2018, 6:59 AM #7
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Thanks both - something for me to investigate further.
On my original 1st posting do you think it could be Bathia WALKER or even Bartholomew shortened? I looked down the Crich transcript of WALKERs beginning with B but drew a blank as only Benjamin and Betty occur in the parish..... https://www.crichparish.co.uk/newwebpages/bmdw1.html
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30-07-2018, 7:29 AM #8
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Is it a coincidence that both names appear to have an umlaut - as in Chloe (where the umlaut is over the 'e' - but my computer won't type non-English letters)?
I think - I'm no expert - that it is used when 2 vowels are together, to ensure that they are pronounced separately ...
Mind you, I cannot guess any male (they are male, aren't they?) names to fit the bill.
Although the female Mayfield (Jennie/Jeanie/Joanie?) may really be Jennifer/Jean/Joan ... or it's her middle name ...
Oh the joys of genealogy!
Jane
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30-07-2018, 7:38 AM #9
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30-07-2018, 9:21 AM #10
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Just for reference this is the full 1794 document. The other witnesses are Susanna WILLOTT & Jno WETTON(X).
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