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Sue from Southend
05-04-21, 14:46
Justinian Morse married Mary Curtis, 1613 in Marlborough. I believe the record states where they are both from but I can't make out the names. Can anyone else? It's the first record in 1613.
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61187/images/45582_263021009496_1195-00089?backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&queryId=1a2e3f8baa250cf48449ea0b96513d02&pId=2037073
Thanks
kiterunner
05-04-21, 15:00
The closest I can find for the first one on Genuki in Wiltshire is Haydon.
kiterunner
05-04-21, 15:12
I found a transcription which says Heydon and Castleton - link below (it is a PDF). I can believe the Castle bit but the end doesn't look like "ton".
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwitv6O5sefvAhUqZhUIHd3kChc4ChAWMAZ6BAgGE AM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.colavizza.com%2Fdocuments%2FD 2196-5_MorseAnthonyLine.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1TFqPNsYArpQLaWzgAdb7_
kiterunner
05-04-21, 15:14
Oh, wait, it could be one of those people who sometimes couldn't be bothered to write the letter "n" and put in a mark to show they had missed it out. But there seems to be another letter between the e and the t, so could be Castleaton? Since there is a place called Castle Eaton near Swindon, I guess that is it.
Sue from Southend
05-04-21, 15:24
Thanks for that Kite. The link explains where a few DNA links have their info from and also over 16000 other family trees!
I thought that the first one read Grydon, Haydon makes more sense.
Still can't find a link to my Justinian Morse/Moss but there must be one with such an unusual name.
Sue from Southend
05-04-21, 15:27
Oh, wait, it could be one of those people who sometimes couldn't be bothered to write the letter "n" and put in a mark to show they had missed it out. But there seems to be another letter between the e and the t, so could be Castleaton? Since there is a place called Castle Eaton near Swindon, I guess that is it.
There is branch of the Morse family in Castle Eaton!
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