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  • Surname variant, Middledidge/Middleditch/Middleage

    Just wondered if you think the three variants could apply to one family or be a transcription variant?

    The records come from Norfolk PR's but assorted sites.

    eg
    Freereg has Middledidge but only in one parish (Stansfield) and one instance of the Middleage name (North Elmham).

    Doun.org (Norfolk transcriptions site) has the same single instance of the "Middleage" entry as above and four records in the Middleditch variant (Shipdham parish).

    All the parishes are within the same area and classed as Mitford and Launditch district.

    The NOAH website has two records for "Middleage".


    I seem to have two lines that might may have married into these names at Beetely and North Elmham.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/

    Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
    My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
    My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid

  • #2
    They certainly look as if they could all be variants of the same name, Glen.
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    • #3
      It's a bit weird and wonderful to explain as the possible link goes through a re-marraige and two or maybe three generations.

      I'm just trying another route to discovering something about the Elmer family at North Elmham, i know there are three or four marriages and several baptisms in North Elmham from around 1800 to the 1820's in the Elmer surname, baptism records have shown an outline of three families but as yet, i haven't been able to prove any of the Elmer grooms are related to each other as i can't find any baptisms for them but i suspect they are related.

      To then suddenly find this other surname in one variant or another thrown in the mix is just.....well plain weird at the minute.
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/

      Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
      My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
      My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid

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      • #4
        Looking at freereg again there are quite a few Middleage entries, most of the burials seem to be at Stanfield which just might suggest the name transcription changed.

        Names, dates and places certainly point to them being candidates to match existing names in my tree but as always happen, i don't come down from this line although it is one that marries into my direct line via a first or second marriage:(

        Rather interesting to note is that most of the entries indicate folks who died aged 80+, not quite "middleage".
        http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/

        Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
        My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
        My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid

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        • #5
          Hi Glen,
          I think they could easily be related. It is very like my Hillditch, Hildage, Hildege family mis transcriptions.

          "Rather interesting to note is that most of the entries indicate folks who died aged 80+, not quite "middleage"."
          ;) Helen x

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          • #6
            Now i wonder, should i start a complicated thread something along the lines of "last middleditch attempt....." :D
            http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/

            Joseph Goulson 1701-1780
            My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind
            My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid

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