what an unfortunate name !!!!

[Guest]

From Ancestry

Oatcaise Bonkin

on a marriage for 1846 , what a name

[Bee]

That must be a mistranscription - surely?!!

Bee.

[Guest]

I didnt look any further so dont know !! but suppose it could be

[Heather Positive Thinker]

I was looking for someone the other day - she wanted a Catchpole in a small Norfolk village - pmsl there was a Natchpole Catchpole listed on the census - honest there was.

[Rachel Scand]

I didnt look any further so dont know !! but suppose it could be

I looked at the image ... it's a typed one and is correct !

[Northern Light]

Oatcaise Bonkin, poor child with a name like that!

[Little Nell]

and yet someone was prepared to marry him!

As he only appears in marriage index he must be a mistake - but can't think what for1
off to check 1851 census!

[Little Nell]

Can't see him. This is where it would be good if you could see the original handwritten indexes instead of the typed ones.

[Little Nell]

Oh dear. Whilst looking for Oatcaise I found a Fanny Bonkin! Sounds like something from a Carry On film!

[Rachel Scand]

Tee hee ... Betty Bonker !!! :D

[Mary from Italy]

Can't see him. This is where it would be good if you could see the original handwritten indexes instead of the typed ones.

You can view the handwritten image, and it still looks like Oatcaise Bonkin.

[brenmac]

cant stop laughing what mother would call her child that lol brenda xxx

[Little Nell]

Mary

How?

[Mary from Italy]

When you click on the spectacles in FreeBMD it takes you to 3 scans. The first one's wrong (it's a different name), the second is the handwritten version, and the third is presumably the typewritten one (I didn't look at it).

[Little Nell]

So either this chap is called Oatcaise and all other records of him are wrong. Or the index was wrongly made up originally, which I think is more likely. A google search has just one hit - this thread!

[Uncle John]

The GRO will not have the slightest inclination to correct the index. If anyone does discover the correct name, the only way to guide others is to leave a Postem on FreeBMD, because they insist on transcribing what the GRO index says, even if it's wrong.

[Little Nell]

I don't suppose the GRO will correct the index. I just wondered if the original handwritten one had been misinterpreted at the time it was typed up, and that I might be able to see what it actually was.

It looks clearly like Oatcaise but as this marriage is the only instance in which this name appears its probably wrong.

I just can't work out if it was a hearing or a writing error. What could Oatcaise look or sound like?

Horace?

[Little Nell]

and not at all sure about Bonkin either!

[Rachel Scand]

Did anyone manage to find him using the names of the possible wives ?

I had a brief look on 1851 & 1861 but nothing was apparent


Marianne
Anne
Sarah
Eliza

some of the Bonks were interesting :D

I was doing BON*** as a surname and trying a similar search with just first names .... (first 3 letters and nothing else)

[Guest]

I have been trying to see which one he married from those 4 to see if I can find them on the 1851 or 1861 census but cannot find him with either of those 4 ?????