Heebright?

[kiterunner]

Mary, thanks for the suggestion but it isn't written in scrawly writing, and as I said, the occupations don't have "a" before them.

Thanks for that, Jacky. Sounds likely, though I still wonder why his children were baptised in the church.

[Merry]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

I still wonder why his children were baptised in the church.

If his wife wasn't Jewish then his children wouldn't be classed as Jews either, I suppose.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Mary, thanks for the suggestion but it isn't written in scrawly writing, and as I said, the occupations don't have "a" before them.

Thanks for that, Jacky. Sounds likely, though I still wonder why his children were baptised in the church.

Registers can be nice & neat because the original details were scrawled on loose scraps of paper & then copied up later. It is just possible that a temporary curate had appalling handwriting (or had misheard what was said)

I speak as someone with the surname Strutt in the family who I don't think were Jewish.

[kiterunner]

Elkesley was a tiny village and the registers look to have been written up by the parish clerk, Phoenix.

[Phoenix]

Just throwing the idea in as a forlorn hope, really. Though you can't tell who was actually officiating before 1812.

Most of my ancestors come from parishes so small that you would think there was no excuse to muddle the entries, and the rector neatly signed that it was a true record at the annual archdeacon's visitation, but some very strange things still slipped through.