A little bit more on PULSIPHER. It's not an unknown name in the United States, but apparently it is rarer in England and perhaps more often occurs with the spelling PULCIFER or PULSIFER. Apparently most of the US PULSIPHERs descend from a Benedict PULSIPHER of unknown origin in England, in the middle of the 17th century (i.e., a little after the Great Migration). A cursory search on English censuses indicates to me that it may be more of a Midlands name than a West Country one. David On Jan 25, 2014, at 7:24 AM, David L. Langenberg wrote: > Perhaps PULSIPHER? > > David > > On Jan 25, 2014, at 12:15 AM, B. Edmonds wrote: > >> As far as I can see there is no such name [at least not on famsearch] of >> this name, so what could it be? >> >> Nicholas s/o Nicholas PULISBER chr 3 Apr 1631 Stokenham >> >> Any takers at a guess at what it is meant to be? No other close baptisms, so >> must be a stray in the parish of Stokenham >> >> Bev >> >> ------------------------------------------ >> The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon >> ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) >> and >> the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) >> List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Thanks David, I did not get that first e-mail from you or the List, so it must still be flying around out there. As you suggest it must be a version of PULSIPHER which now makes sense to me. Thanks Bev re Perhaps PULSIPHER? -------------------------------------------------- From: "David L. Langenberg" <gallienus@mac.com> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 1:24 AM To: <devon@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [DEV] Nicholas PULISBER c 1600 > A little bit more on PULSIPHER. It's not an unknown name in the United > States, but apparently it is rarer in England and perhaps more often > occurs with the spelling PULCIFER or PULSIFER. Apparently most of the US > PULSIPHERs descend from a Benedict PULSIPHER of unknown origin in England, > in the middle of the 17th century (i.e., a little after the Great > Migration). A cursory search on English censuses indicates to me that it > may be more of a Midlands name than a West Country one. > > David > > On Jan 25, 2014, at 7:24 AM, David L. Langenberg wrote: > >> Perhaps PULSIPHER? >> >> David >> >> On Jan 25, 2014, at 12:15 AM, B. Edmonds wrote: >> >>> As far as I can see there is no such name [at least not on famsearch] of >>> this name, so what could it be? >>> >>> Nicholas s/o Nicholas PULISBER chr 3 Apr 1631 Stokenham >>> >>> Any takers at a guess at what it is meant to be? No other close >>> baptisms, so >>> must be a stray in the parish of Stokenham >>> >>> Bev >>> >>> ------------------------------------------ >>> The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon >>> ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) >>> and >>> the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) >>> List archive for Devon can be found at >>> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2247 / Virus Database: 3681/6530 - Release Date: 01/24/14 >