Our ancestor came to Canada and changed his surname, he left England with his and his wife’s barmaid (They ran a few pubs over there) and started a whole new family in Canada 🇨🇦!
Just popped along out of curiosity, enjoyed your video and renewed my interest in tracing my ancestors. Looking forward to more and I subscribed, thankyou
Interesting. Allegedly I have a relative who came to the US prior to the revolution and changed his name to Jones to honor the person who (and I don't know if this is the correct term) sponsored his journey from the UK. I half suspect that it may have been a family story to attach a famous patriot (or rebel from your point of view) to the family tree!
Hi - yes, that's a good point. I do believe that people did change their names to honour a personal or national hero! Judging by the amount of Nelson lines I've been asked to try and link to the most famous Nelson of all - I think it's highly likely that some of the ancestors just took the name because he was such a national hero.
My husband’s ancestor changed his name from Smith to Cuthbertson. It was just after he got married and started a family. Fortunately, his wife had a distinctive name so was easier to trace. I suspect he signed up for the army and decided to get out when his first child was born.
I have a very strong suspicion my uncle changed his name shortly after coming g to Australia. I have documented all I could find on the 2 people and this shows a very strong reason to believe this. We have no idea why and his family are not interested, so I have to leave it at that
I have something similar happening with one of my ancestors one of my ancestors was born Adonia Lane in Worcester England in 1862 but on various census records and birth records of her children she is variously called Addonia medonia but mostly as Elizabeth. It’s only having looked further into this branch of my tree that I realised they were probably English gypsies and it was common for them to have more than one name her children by Henry Spicer were born everywhere from north wales to Oxford following the seasonal fairs as her husband was variously called a traveller a hawker and a showman on different records. I just can’t find a marriage record for them though neither can I find them in the 1881 census which is around the time they should be getting married it’s so frustrating !
It's very possible that they were not married, even if living together as husband and wife. This happened more often than you might think in the Victorian period! Another thought is that if they travelled extensively, they could have been in Scotland or possible in Ireland in 1881. In theory, the census results for Scotland should come up on Ancestry searches, but you could try the ScotlandsPeople website just in case. Ireland is unlikely as most of the census records were destroyed. Another thought is they may have had periods of homelessness - so they would not have been included on the census.
Our ancestor came to Canada and changed his surname, he left England with his and his wife’s barmaid (They ran a few pubs over there) and started a whole new family in Canada 🇨🇦!
Just popped along out of curiosity, enjoyed your video and renewed my interest in tracing my ancestors. Looking forward to more and I subscribed, thankyou
Thanks Anna! Happy to see you here. Let me know if you have any questions I could address in a future video :)
Interesting. Allegedly I have a relative who came to the US prior to the revolution and changed his name to Jones to honor the person who (and I don't know if this is the correct term) sponsored his journey from the UK. I half suspect that it may have been a family story to attach a famous patriot (or rebel from your point of view) to the family tree!
Hi - yes, that's a good point. I do believe that people did change their names to honour a personal or national hero! Judging by the amount of Nelson lines I've been asked to try and link to the most famous Nelson of all - I think it's highly likely that some of the ancestors just took the name because he was such a national hero.
My husband’s ancestor changed his name from Smith to Cuthbertson. It was just after he got married and started a family. Fortunately, his wife had a distinctive name so was easier to trace. I suspect he signed up for the army and decided to get out when his first child was born.
I have a very strong suspicion my uncle changed his name shortly after coming g to Australia. I have documented all I could find on the 2 people and this shows a very strong reason to believe this. We have no idea why and his family are not interested, so I have to leave it at that
I'm going to give it a go and see what turns up thanks for sharing your knowledge much appreciated 👍
I have something similar happening with one of my ancestors one of my ancestors was born Adonia Lane in Worcester England in 1862 but on various census records and birth records of her children she is variously called Addonia medonia but mostly as Elizabeth. It’s only having looked further into this branch of my tree that I realised they were probably English gypsies and it was common for them to have more than one name her children by Henry Spicer were born everywhere from north wales to Oxford following the seasonal fairs as her husband was variously called a traveller a hawker and a showman on different records.
I just can’t find a marriage record for them though neither can I find them in the 1881 census which is around the time they should be getting married it’s so frustrating !
It's very possible that they were not married, even if living together as husband and wife. This happened more often than you might think in the Victorian period! Another thought is that if they travelled extensively, they could have been in Scotland or possible in Ireland in 1881. In theory, the census results for Scotland should come up on Ancestry searches, but you could try the ScotlandsPeople website just in case. Ireland is unlikely as most of the census records were destroyed. Another thought is they may have had periods of homelessness - so they would not have been included on the census.
Thank you for the reply I never thought to look in Scotland that’s in interesting avenue il look down thank you for the tip :)
As if tracing the family tree wasn’t difficult enough without people changing their names 😢
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