Hi Barbara, Yup... add the H and one is despised for 'talking posh'! grin Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Adair" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [BAN] The whys and wherefores! > Muriel has discovered anew what many of us have come across. I had > trouble finding the forebears of my EAVER grandmother until I found > in a Census record that they came from Hungerford, Berks. Upon > investigating the records there I found that the name was really > HEAVER. As is still quite usual the initial H got dropped and as > they were also illiterate they did not correct any writer of the name > spoken as EAVER. That missing "H" is still very much around in the > London area in this day and age! > Barbara > > > > On 29-Sep-07, at 6:57 AM, pollyp wrote: > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > The online Northamptonshire marriage strays index has just been updated. > Now nearly 7,000 marriages are included. View them at > http://www.northants1841.fsnet.co.uk/northants%20strays.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >