Name of groom, please - Page 2 - Genealogists' Forum

ElizabethHerts · #11 26-08-12, 10:35

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Originally Posted by Merry

At first glance it looks like Ayre, but on closer examination it could be a lot of things!

Anyway, I'm not speaking to you whilst you are tracing ancestors in the 16thC, as I'm too jealous!!

I have been so lucky with these Lincolnshire records, Merry - a year ago my earliest Lincolnshire ancestor was born c. 1750, but now I can go back on all the lines (including wives and their ancestors) well back into the 1600s and sometimes earlier. They obligingly seem to have left quite a few wills.

It compensates for my Mum's main branch in Portsea which I can't get back earlier than the 1790s.

Asa · #12 26-08-12, 11:08

The second letter is an i and the last an e - looking at it as a whole I keep thinking Rigge or Ridge but looking at FS baptisms in Scotton 1560-1580 father's name William, the only likely looking one (to me) is William Fishe

ElizabethHerts · #13 26-08-12, 11:11

Thanks, Asa. I thought it was a capital R too.

I think I'll have to go through the registers to find a burial for a Margery and see what comes up.

Merry · #14 26-08-12, 11:14

I suppose mothers don't get a mention in the bap register?

ElizabethHerts · #15 26-08-12, 11:37

I haven't looked further than page 2 this early on, Merry. In my experience it seemed to be on the whim of the Vicar. I have early baptisms with both parents' names and later in the same register, with a change of vicar, just the father's name.

Phoenix · #16 26-08-12, 11:51

Before I read any others Fishe

ElizabethHerts · #17 26-08-12, 11:54

Phoenix, that's what Family Search has.

Is an F often like that? That is what confused me. It looks like a capital A without the crossbar, but then it has a loop at the top.

Phoenix · #18 26-08-12, 11:56

It definitely ends ishe and that looks a typical ff for capital F. (This is the woman who thought "stay" was "heir" but I'm much better at Tudor than Victorian handwriting)

Phoenix · #19 26-08-12, 11:59

Look at Frances and Furnasse at the top of the page.

ElizabethHerts · #20 26-08-12, 12:31

Thanks, Phoenix! That has really explained it well and I'm quite happy with that now.

Now all I have to do is to master the numbers in the dates that appear in this register.