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Richard Smyth at Road Run

Fw: Peacocks

Legg inn av Richard Smyth at Road Run » 08 aug 2006 22:26:03

I wonder if there are any safe generalizations that would apply to all of
England or all of Ireland on "ea" and "ay" in any period. I have recently
been looking at two families in the parish records for Rostherne in
Cheshire. One family appears to be, sometimes, Heywood, in the earliest
records, and also both Heaward and Hayward. But a very good case can be
made that the Mary Haiward of High Legh in the 1851 census is the Mary
Howard of High Legh who was married in 1853. ("Howard" also appear in the
earlier records, but whether it is a variant of "Heaward' then I cannot
say.) The other family is Coe, where, according to Reaney in his Dictionary
of British Surnames, in Lancashire and Chester the name "Kay" [which meant
`key' or `key-bearer', Reaney asserts] "became ME [Reaney's italics: co(o)]
now Coe".

The problem of regional variations seems to be laid over a deeper problem
infecting the sound/spelling relationship: The individual that created the
record often did not come from the region, or sometime even the country, of
the bearers of the name. Again, the Rostherne burial records and cemetery
records show what are, from the dates, quite clearly two recordings of the
same events. One set of records shows the death of Henry Aspey and of his
wife, Sarah; the other set shows on precisely the same dates the death of
Henry Aspin and of his wife, Sarah.

Regards,

Richard Smyth
smyth@nc.rr.com

John Brandon

Re: Fw: Peacocks

Legg inn av John Brandon » 09 aug 2006 15:17:43

same events. One set of records shows the death of Henry Aspey and of his
wife, Sarah; the other set shows on precisely the same dates the death of
Henry Aspin and of his wife, Sarah.

I would guess that the above is just a handwriting issue.

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