Took opportunity to look at some parish registers in Norwich today.
The marriage register was too damaged, but I found banns for my gt x 3 grandparents, John Dunt and Kezia Seals in 1794. IGI has her as Kezia Seals, but the banns recorded her as Chizia!
Didn't find Kezia's baptism, but there are was a baptism for a John Searll parents John & Mary born about 4 years afer Kezia (have her rough birth year from burial records). John Scarl son of John & Mary is buried later the same year.
So working on the premise that John & Mary Searl/Scarl could be Seals, I found a marriage in the same parish on IGI for John Scurrell (Scarl) and Mary Sales.
Limpenhoe parish registers on Norfolk Baptism Project (starts 1813, so a bit later than this lot) has several entries for Scarl, Searl and Sales.
Do you think these are all variants of the same name or at least 3 different surnames?
The marriage register was too damaged, but I found banns for my gt x 3 grandparents, John Dunt and Kezia Seals in 1794. IGI has her as Kezia Seals, but the banns recorded her as Chizia!
Didn't find Kezia's baptism, but there are was a baptism for a John Searll parents John & Mary born about 4 years afer Kezia (have her rough birth year from burial records). John Scarl son of John & Mary is buried later the same year.
So working on the premise that John & Mary Searl/Scarl could be Seals, I found a marriage in the same parish on IGI for John Scurrell (Scarl) and Mary Sales.
Limpenhoe parish registers on Norfolk Baptism Project (starts 1813, so a bit later than this lot) has several entries for Scarl, Searl and Sales.
Do you think these are all variants of the same name or at least 3 different surnames?
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