On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:00:25 +0000, Jenny M Benson <nemonews@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >On 02/12/2010 13:20, Steve Hayes wrote: >> And get this: on the same index page as Mary Nevard Mortons marriage to >> August Decker, TWO Emmas married a George David Julius Casdorff Emma Morton >> and Emma Rodwell. > >Not two Emmas, one Emma with 2 names. You often see that where the >woman had been married before or possibly where she was born with one >surname but habitually used that of her step-father. We've ordered the marriage certificate, which should reveal which it was. I did mention that the name Castorff seemed familiar, and I've found where I saw it -- Edwin Robert Morton Decker, son of August and Mary Nevard Decker, nee Morton, was baptised at Holy Trinity Churcdh, King William's Town, in 1861, and his godparents were Robert Gross and George and Emma Castorff, which I'm pretty certain were the same George and Emma who appeared on the same page in the marriage register. But again, the marriage certificate should reveal that. But after that George and Emma seem to have disappeared. Wish I'd known the link at the time we were looking at the baptism register in the vestry at King William's town back in 1975. I'd have looked more diligently for Castorffs as well. -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/