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Glen TK
22-05-13, 20:27
Can anyone work out the name after William in this '61 image please? Only options on freebmd for a birth about that time are a Robert or Bradley and it doesn't look close to either of those to me, click the image and a bigger version will open in a new tab


http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8555/8791334426_edf5ba466b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/8791334426/)
crop 1861 England Census for George Chambers 1829 Barlings (http://www.flickr.com/photos/50125734@N06/8791334426/) by Glen TK2 (http://www.flickr.com/people/50125734@N06/), on Flickr
Margaret in Burton
22-05-13, 20:30
Elliot?
Glen TK
22-05-13, 20:36
Mmm

There is an Alexander birth in 1857 and I've found a bapt with right parents, St Marks, Lincoln (image shows St Marks, Lincoln as pob) but it does look like Elliot to me too.
JBee
22-05-13, 21:04
That's what I thought straight away.

Could it be a middle name?
Margaret in Burton
22-05-13, 21:22
That's what I thought straight away.

Could it be a middle name?

Probable. So many people including my dad were/are known by their middle name.
Glen TK
22-05-13, 21:25
I can't find an Alexander baptism or an entry in 1871 (nor a death either), as for middle names it could be but I'm not sure who mum was, if it is from her side I;m stumped right now, it's not a name that figures on the paternal side that I'm aware of.

It's a line I've only been looking at a week or so, links to my grt grandfather and yet more tree entries that share his name across the branches of this lot, harrumph!!!!
Glen TK
22-05-13, 21:31
First letter doesn't resemble the other "E" entries on the page, looks more like a distorted G than anything but "George" appears on that page several times it bears no resemblance to any of them.
Phoenix
22-05-13, 21:55
Agree the E isn't identical to the others, but it looks like Ellick - ie Alec - Alexander to me.
kiterunner
22-05-13, 22:06
Looks like Ellick to me too.
Glen TK
22-05-13, 22:33
Down as a son but most likely bmd results apart from the Alexander is Alice, now that is a name of an aunt.

Births Mar 1857 (>99%)
Chambers Alice Elizabeth Lincoln 7a 434
Chambers Bradley Lincoln 7a 439
Chambers Georgie Maria Lincoln 7a 454
Births Sep 1857 (>99%)
Chambers George Lincoln 7a 397
Chambers Mary Jane Mc Donald Lincoln 7a 421
Births Dec 1857 (>99%)
Chambers Alexander Lincoln 7a 433
Chambers Beatrice Jane Lincoln 7a 44[35]
Births Mar 1858 (>99%)
Chambers Hannah Lincoln 7a 457
Births Jun 1858 (>99%)
Chambers Harriett Lincoln 7a 431
Births Sep 1858 (>99%)
Chambers Thomas Lincoln 7a 426
Phoenix
22-05-13, 22:56
An Alexander Chambers dies aged 9 in 1866, Worksop RD.
Glen TK
22-05-13, 23:54
1871 I think the family are Sheffield, 1881 back in Lincoln, grandfather is in Worksop in '71 too, head of house with three grandchildren, oldest of them is a coalminer born Sheffield.

1866 fits for the right age so it looks very likely, now to work out which grandchild fits who in that '71.
Glen TK
23-05-13, 00:05
Dang

Births Dec 1864 (>99%)
CHAMBERS Edward Worksop 7b 24

1871 in Worksop with grandparents
1881 Lincoln, St Martins Row with the Coldrons
1891 ??
1901 looks to be in Strood, Kent
Edward Chambers 36
Lizzie Chambers 35 (born Herts)
Kathleen Chambers 7 (born Strood)
Edward T Chambers 4 (born Strood)

Marriages Dec 1892 (>99%)
ASHTON Lizzie Hitchin 3a 797
CHAMBERS Edward Hitchin 3a 797
Dawson Christopher Hitchin 3a 797
JARVIS Elizabeth Hitchin 3a 797