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29-06-14, 15:30
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A warning about other relatives' names in indexes
I was looking for Hannah Bishop. Last sighting 1871, in Cobham, Surrey. Looking for her husband I found he'd died in 1875 so thought Hannah might have remarried.
I found a marriage 1876 (right time) at St. Mary Magdalene, Richmond (got me excited as Hannah's aunt & cousins lived there). But I was a bit dubious as Hannah was living in Cobham, Surrey and the index gave father's name as William Bishop. I decided to check the image anyway - and was thrilled to find father was William Chowns! Hannah's sister and brother Susan and William were witnesses. Chowns is an unusual name and I also knew that Susan had also married at St. Mary Magdalene. But if I'd just gone on the index I would have assumed it was the wrong Hannah!
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Love from Nell researching Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire Last edited by Nell; 29-06-14 at 15:44. 
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