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    Just a quick tip - stick an H on the front as a variant when searching for a surname beginning with A if all else has failed. One of my Abbotts married under the name of Habbott and I've just found a possible remarriage for an Allison under Hallison. (Both from Lancashire, don't think its a quirk of that accent but a general Victorian one)

    I suppose it might work the other way round too - Olden instead of Holden? The H at the beginning of my own surname has been dropped a couple of times on items through the post.

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    Good tip. I have been called "Mrs Heavens" several times by children at the school where I work (real surname Evans)!

    I did find my Emmons/Emmins lot down as Hammond in 1841, so if ancestor's name begins with a vowel you could try shoving an H in front.
    ~ with love from Little Nell~
    Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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    • #3
      I was born in Enfield Middx - people round here in Sussex think I mean the Sussex village Henfield:(

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      • #4
        As opposed to folk who come from 'Ackney?!
        ~ with love from Little Nell~
        Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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        • #5
          Yesterday I found one of my Horniman relations mentioned in the newspaper (1819) as Orniman! lol So it works both ways with H followed by a vowel

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          • #6
            Jill

            I think it WAS a Lancashire trait to drop the H...and to add one as well in times of stress.

            I can remember my Lancashire relatives, greeting people in the street with "How HAR you?", to which the polite reply was
            "HI'm very well, thankyou"

            I routinely search for the Oldens. Another Lancashire tip - if the name ends in -en, try -ing. Another Lancashire speech peculiarity.

            OC

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            • #7
              My Alexanders were often Alixanders, but I haven't come across "Halexander" yet! :D
              Elizabeth
              Research Interests:
              England:Purkis, Stilwell, Quintrell, White (Surrey - Guildford), Jeffcoat, Bond, Alexander, Lamb, Newton (Lincolnshire, Stalybridge, London)
              Scotland:Richardson (Banffshire), Wishart (Kincardineshire), Johnston (Kincardineshire)

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              • #8
                My OH's Etherington ancestors often turn up as Hetherington. And my Aughtons are sometimes Haughton. (Both families from Lancashire)
                KiteRunner

                Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
                (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View Post
                  Jill

                  I think it WAS a Lancashire trait to drop the H...and to add one as well in times of stress.

                  I can remember my Lancashire relatives, greeting people in the street with "How HAR you?", to which the polite reply was
                  "HI'm very well, thankyou"

                  I routinely search for the Oldens. Another Lancashire tip - if the name ends in -en, try -ing. Another Lancashire speech peculiarity.

                  OC
                  My headmaster at primary school was Mr Holding, does that make him one of yours?
                  Michael, aged 1/4 of a century

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                  • #10
                    Slightly wide of topic, but...

                    I was always amused by the department store in Clapham:
                    Arding and Hobbs.

                    I used to find it quite difficult to say, as my mouth was quite convinced that there was an H at the start of the first name, whatever my eyes told me. :o

                    Christine
                    Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Michael View Post
                      My headmaster at primary school was Mr Holding, does that make him one of yours?
                      Reminds me of the cricket gaffe: "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey".
                      Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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                      • #12
                        That wasn't a gaffe, I bet he'd been waiting to say it since he saw the team lists!
                        Michael, aged 1/4 of a century

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                        • #13
                          I agree; given those two names that sentence was inevitable. A classic.
                          ~ with love from Little Nell~
                          Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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