Unusual names - Huh!
Posted: 01 Apr 2011 13:40
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
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