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Unusual names - Huh!

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 13:40
by kwr
I, like Tina, thought an unusual name was a godsend but......

I have a marriage between Catherine Parry and Frederik Christian ?....Hanoeus/Humens/Hamaens/Hunsaus/Hunaeus/Hundus. These are some of the variations on his name I find over the period 1861-1881. He was born in Denmark incidentally.

Because of their first daughter Mary who was born in Charleston I had no difficulty finding the family up to and including 1881. The daughter I can still find in 1891 and 1901 when she is married and has children - so no trouble there.

However her father and mother! are either still alive today OR migrated (something my wife suggests I should check) OR have had the benefit of another imaginative? illiterate? enumerator who has baffled me completely.

I swear I have tried every conceivable derivation/variation/wild card method of establishing if they lived after 1881 and I've failed.

So....I am prepared to admit to an IQ of as much as one and a half and ask other members if they have suggestions as to what I should do next apart from throwing myself out of the window.
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1861 Census:- RG09/2655/44/16
1871 Census:- RG10/3834/101/4
1881 Census:- RG11/3691/66/52
I post these to help save other people time.......

Ken

Re: Unusual names - Huh!

Posted: 01 Apr 2011 16:00
by MaryA
kwr wrote:However her father and mother! are either still alive today
My money is on that option :lol:

Unusual names-Huh

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 08:39
by kwr
Thanks Mary - on balance I've decided not to defenestrate either.

Ken

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 19:49
by simone
Hi

1901 census
RG13; Piece: 3464; Folio: 23; Page: 37
at 26 Litherland Road
Lydia Miller 40 b Liverpol
David Miller 11 b Bootle
Kate Hunaercs 75 mother in law b liverpool
Fred Hunaercs 76 retired shipwright, Denmark, father in law

Simone

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 20:07
by simone
1891 bit messy this one

the family are all together in same house , but parents do not show on transcription search with Lydia..

separate search gives Catherine on her own, and Fred is listed on transcription with family next door, the Calp/Calf family

RG12; Piece: 2974; Folio 138; Page 39
65 Strand Road
Lydia Miller 30
David Miller 15/12
Charlotte Wollet 11

RG12; Piece: 2974; Folio 138; Page 39
Catherine Hundemer 64 widow? b Denmark


RG12; Piece: 2974; Folio 138; Page 39
F H Hundemer 64 b Wenmark


:? :roll:

Simone x

Posted: 02 Apr 2011 23:01
by Hilary
Here are their deaths

Catherine Hunaens also given as Hunaeus
June Quarter 1903
West Derby
Volume 8b page 247

Age 75

Frederick C Hunaens
March Q 1906
West Derby
Volume 8b page 239

Age given as 79

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 11:17
by Tina
Simmo and E.O
Great finds, well done
Sent error into Anc## about Wenmark birthplace.

Tina

Unusual names-Huh

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 11:41
by kwr
Simone -
only just logged on but goodness me was it worth it! I suspect that if you were on an hourly rate I'd owe you thousands. The number of variations on a name must be something of a record methinks. The 1891 return you are I think very charitable about. I feel like going back in time and making the enumerator give back the money he was paid.

Hilary - again it's humble pie time - you got them and I couldn't. So thank you both very VERY much. You realise if (or rather when) I'm in trouble again I'll be back to you? You shouldn't encourage me by succeeding.

Ken - much relieved and no longer furious with my own ancestors

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 11:52
by simone
Cheers Tina,

Ken.. we like a challenge on here :lol: :lol:

Simone x :D

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 16:11
by MaryA
Well done girls - take a bow!