Dosheth

[Kit]

Has anyone heard of this as a girl's name?

Eastwood (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2256/32355_249693-00879/9926769?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2 fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdbid%3d2256%26gsfn%3delizabeth%26g sln%3deastwood%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln_x%3d1%26msbdy%3 d1772%26msbdy_x%3d1%26hc%3d50%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1 %26uidh%3d5ai%26redir%3dfalse&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults)

It's on the right hand page, second entry for christenings in February. It has been transcribed as Elizabeth but it doesn't look like it to me.

Surname is Eastwood, father Richard.

[kiterunner]

She is the only Dosheth who comes up on an ancestry search, but it certainly does look like that on the image.

[Janet]

Under the BT's on FMP it looks pretty much the same, and again
she is the only Dosh?th to come up with that first name on all of FMP.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-INnfeAFFH-Q/XWVVbe-vyuI/AAAAAAAAHR8/VWyNFlU-Uy0ZdJbF4YxDxDd2H7VogBslQCLcBGAs/s800/Dosheth.tiff

Record set Yorkshire, Bishop's Transcripts Of Baptisms
First name(s) Dosheth
Last name Eastwood
Baptism year 1772
Birth year -
County Yorkshire (West Riding)
Country England
Baptism place Bradford
Mother's first name(s) -
Father's first name(s) Richard
Baptism date 02 Feb 1772
Event type Baptisms, marriages & burials
Source year range 1602-1845
Archive Borthwick Institute for Archives
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Parish Baptisms
Collections from England, Great Britain

[Phoenix]

Ooh, that's good! It's always helpful when the BTs are in another hand.

Whoever recorded the baptisms allowed Nancy and Mally, Sally etc so presumably was happy with any name, no matter how obscure.

I wonder how she was married/buried?

[Olde Crone]

Is it my imagination, or is there a whitish blob over the letters o and s? If there is, I don't know how that helps, but...

OC

[Janet]

I see what you see, OC, but it's only on FMP's BT which is a damaged mess overall, while Ancestry's parish register is pristine.

[Olde Crone]

Ah right, thankyou Janet.


I shall spend the rest of the evening muttering Dosheth to myself in various regional accents both real and imaginary, to try to work out what they meant!

OC

[Janet]

Mutter softly lest anyone hear you. Lol.

[Olde Crone]

Lol!

Doing a sort of Mummerset accent, I can come up with Dorcas.

OC

[Kit]

I wonder how she was married/buried?

So do I. ;(;(

Ah right, thankyou Janet.


I shall spend the rest of the evening muttering Dosheth to myself in various regional accents both real and imaginary, to try to work out what they meant!

OC

Mutter softly lest anyone hear you. Lol.

No, talk louder. I can't hear if you mutter softly.

Lol!

Doing a sort of Mummerset accent, I can come up with Dorcas.

OC

It's a start. Thank you. Not sure I have a Dorcas in my tree. New, real, names are always good.

Ancestry transcribed her as Elizabeth and I spent way too long enlarging and shrinking the page and turning my head from side to side to try and work it out. Apparently ending in 'eth' means Elizabeth. :rolleyes::eek:

I googled Dosheth and it comes up with a biblical reference in an old bible but it is OCR and there are ink blots on the page so I don't know what it is meant to actually read.

[Janet]

I saw that too, Toni. The one I saw turned out to be Bosheth.

On the other hand, going back to look at that I made a typo and in the process discovered many variations on first names along the lines of
Doreth
Dosith
Dasethe
Doseth
Dowseth
Dosseth
Dosathe
Doaseth
Doiseth
Dorsitt
Dossett
Doiset
Dosset
Daseth
Dosethe,
including quite a number of Dosith/Doseth in and around Quebec.

[Merry]

There's a Dorcas Eastwood marrying Timothy Green at Bradford Cathedral in 1789, but nothing to say she is a minor....

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/2256/32355_249705-00491/15091298?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.u k%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdbid%3d2256%26gsfn%3ddo*s*%26gsln% 3deastwood%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln_x%3d1%26cp%3d0%26gs kw%3dyorkshire%26gskw_x%3d1%26pcat%3d%26qh%3dSW1fY alKGaFiwCm%252fJbaVLQ%253d%253d%26hc%3d50%26new%3d 1%26rank%3d1%26uidh%3d672%26redir%3dfalse&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

They have children bap at Bradford Cathedral:

William 1791 (no mother recorded)

Sally (?) 1795

Ellen 1807 (no mother recorded)

There's also a burial for a Sarah Green dau of Timothy in 1789, but no bap as far as I could see.

Timothy seems to have died in 1824 aged 54 (bur Bradford Cathedral), so possibly born around 1770 - potentially a minor at the marriage too.

Dorcas was buried 29 Aug 1821 at Bradford Cathedral aged 50 (entry says she is the wife of Timothy), so that's a good fit with the 1772 baptism.

[Phoenix]

A lot of trees seem to have tagged her to a birth in Huddersfield, which seems a fair way away.

[Mary from Italy]

I've checked my ancient copy of Cruden's Concordance (an index to the Bible, including an index of proper names), and there's no Dosheth in it.

[Kit]

Thanks everyone. Sorry I've been missing. I've had a busy week with the kids. I'll have a better look tomorrow.