What is this woman's name?

[ElizabethHerts]

http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=779951&iid=348328

I have the burial of two Pople ladies on this page:

http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=779951&iid=348328

right-hand page, burials 1601

What is the name of the first lady?
The one underneath is Elizabeth Pople.

[kiterunner]

Benitte, but I'm just wondering how you know it is a woman?

[Lindsay]

It looks like Bessithe or Bessinthe to me, but I don't think that's right!

[kiterunner]

I see that FamilySearch has some baptisms for a Bennette (various spellings) Pople and they say female, but it would be worth checking on the image to make sure, as FamilySearch transcribers can sometimes be prone to assuming gender etc.

[ElizabethHerts]

Benitte, but I'm just wondering how you know it is a woman?

I don't know, Kate! :d It just seemed to me that it was!

[ElizabethHerts]

Name: Bennette Pople
Gender: Female
Baptism/Christening Date: 30 May 1567
Baptism/Christening Place: SCOTTON,LINCOLN,ENGLAND
Father's Name: Richard Pople
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03133-1

Richard Pople is my earliest known ancestor of this line, so it looks as though Bennette or Benitte was a family name. I wonder if there were Bennetts who married into the family?

I got six wills from Lincolnshire Archives today, one of which was for John Popple and his will was written in 1699. All the Popples were all from Scotton. Richard Popple was John Popple's great-grandfather.

[Asa]

Bennett used to be a middlingly common first name - I think it comes from Benedict? - I only know of it as a male name.

[ElizabethHerts]

I have found the christening:

http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=779951&iid=348242

on the right-hand page.

Anno dom 1567
Benitte Pople the daughter of Richard Pople was christened the 30th of May in the yere above said

Lower down there is another girl with the same name - Benitte Browne.

[Asa]

That's interesting - nice name too :-)

[Margaret in Burton]

I've Googled "Benitte".

All that seems to come up is with it as a surname.

[ElizabethHerts]

Yes, Asa. It has grown on me.

I have also seen a few girls with the name Betteris in my travels - a corruption of Beatrix, I think.

[ElizabethHerts]

I've Googled "Benitte".

All that seems to come up is with it as a surname.

That could well be how it started, Marg.

I have Lincolnshire ancestors from Scotton, a father and son, both called Newbourn Wood. It was mum's/gran's maiden name.