Branch-ing out in Laxfield
#52Ancestors Post V: Branching Out Week Five of #52Ancestors brings us the theme ‘branching out’. The subsequent post has landed here because my One-Name Study includes a marriage between a John ’Walne’ and an Elizabeth Branch in Laxfield, Suffolk, in 1821. In this post, I look at the Walne-Branch marriage and ask whether one party […]
1911: Spelling
In 1911, eleven individuals appeared on their schedule as ‘Warnes Walne’, the others I read as ‘Walne’, although the transcription varies wildly. Were all of these people registered as such at birth (in the GRO index)? No, although the vast majority were. Of those born after the introduction of civil registration (all but one record […]
