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    I have just come across two brothers registered as Doepree and Sharabarnard
    1850-1860. The family were originally from Suffolk. Does anyone know where those names come from
    PAT

  • #2
    Found them where? They look like possible mistranscriptions to me. Have you found them on censuses?
    ~ with love from Little Nell~
    Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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    • #3
      Surname?
      ~ with love from Little Nell~
      Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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      • #4
        shara is a biblical name and maybe they added the barnard bit?

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        • #5
          Doepree is
          1871 Dupre
          1881 Doprie
          1891 Dopree
          1901 Dopris
          Registered Doepree 1854 Hartismere Suffolk
          Dopree 1877 Marriage Manchester

          Sharabarnard birth 1860 Rugby death 1862 Rugby

          surname Nelthorpe/Nellthorpe

          they had another brother Edward Nehemiah and a sister Hepzibah
          PAT

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          • #6
            Nehemiah and Hepzibah are Biblical names so Sharabarnard might be too. Dupree sounds like a surname used as a first name.
            ~ with love from Little Nell~
            Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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            • #7
              Sharabarnard is the death index
              Sharabarbard in the birth index

              but that doesn't get us further forwards really.
              ~ with love from Little Nell~
              Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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              • #8
                I have the family on census from 1851 to 1901 plus marriges etc. I was just wondering about the names
                PAT

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by tessie31082 View Post
                  shara is a biblical name and maybe they added the barnard bit?
                  I was thinking along the same lines.
                  On the 1861 census the name appears to be Shara B, although the "Shara" part is very unclear.
                  RG9; Piece: 2213; Folio: 83; Page: 19
                  Sarah

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                  • #10
                    Dopree Nelthorpe is also mentioned here: RootsWeb: ENG-MANCHESTER-L [ENG-MAN] Fw: Names from Gorton map of 1905 pt 3

                    and Doprie/Dupree here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.co...-04/0954852114
                    Sarah

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                    • #11
                      Could be that one of their distant ancestors was a Frenchman called Duprès - that name was commonly anglicised to Dupree.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by tessie31082 View Post
                        shara is a biblical name
                        Are you sure? I've just had a look at the Concordance to the St. James Bible, and the nearest names I can see are Sharai and Sharar.

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                        • #13
                          it is apparently hebrew

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                          • #14
                            Oh yes, it's probably the Hebrew spelling or pronunciation of Sarah.

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                            • #15
                              This name is getting perilously close to Sarah Bernhardt, lol.

                              OC

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                              • #16
                                But if you've found this child on the census its presumably a boy or you wouldn't have said "brothers" in your posting.
                                ~ with love from Little Nell~
                                Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy

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                                • #17
                                  I think it unlikely in the extreme that an ag lab in deepest Warwickshire would be Jewish.

                                  The names are Old Testament, but nonconformist rather than Jewish. Interesting that I read it as Thomas and so did Ancestry!

                                  But I do agree the name starts with S. I think the enumerator was defeated by a local accent, or an inability to spell the name...he seems to have struggled with Hepzibah, too.

                                  OC

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                                  • #18
                                    Possibly the parents had no idea how to spell the names either.
                                    Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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