Hi Janice I think that John Pettit and John Poulter are almost definitely one and the same. I've got two instances of interchangeable surnames in my Cambridgeshire family too. In one case, I have Joseph PARKER also known as Joseph THOROGOOD - his mother was married to a PARKER but living with a THOROGOOD when he was born. The other is a William HOBBS aka William HOWE - his parents William HOBBS and Alice HOWE married the year after he was born. The families of both these men interchanged their surnames over the years appearing as first one and then the other in various censuses. They both lived in Balsham. I suspect their backgrounds were so well known in a small place that various registrars and enumerators differed over which surnames to use for them. Have you found a baptism for John PETTITT als. POULTER yet? Best wishes Ruth On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:29:16 -0000, Janice Aitkens <janice.aitkens1@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone > It my Pettit (Pettitt)/ Poulter mystery, Here is what I have & would love to have some thoughts as to what you all think. > > 1844 Julia Jane Stigwood marries a John Pettit (signed Pettett) he a labourer have marriage cert. it does not state X for mark of mother > > 1851 Census Gives the family as Pettett with parents & children > > 1851 5th March I have a birth for a William Poulter (a twin so the record office said) Julia Jane Poulter formerly Stigwood X mark as informant Mother Father's occup Carter > > 1857 Hannah Pettit father John Pettit Coal Carter mother Julia Jane Pettit formerly Stigwood > > 1861 Census gives the family as Pettit father's occupation Labourer it shows both William & Hannah there plus older children & younger ones. > > 1871 Census it shows family as Poulter John's occupation Butcher, Julia is there as is William age 17 Butcher, Hannah 12 plus younger children. > > 1875 Hannah marries & gives her as Hannah Poulter father John Butcher (have cert) > > 1881 Census family Poulter John a Butcher, Julia is there & a Thomas age 25 Ag Lab & a Samuel age 14 Hannah is a widow with two children > > 1884 Hannah remarries in Bloomsbury London gives John Poulter butcher as father (have cert) > > 1889 There is a Death of a John Poulter (am waiting on cert) > > 1891 Census Julia widow Dealer & butcher there is a son James ag lab age 46 (he only ever shows on 1851 census) Samuel age 28 Butcher > > 1891 Census shows a Thomas Pettett age 36 Ag Lab with wife & family > > 1899 Samuel Marriage cert give him as Samuel Pettit Poulter Butcher father John Pettit Poulter > > 1901 Census shows a Thomas P Poulter ag lab with family does match names with the 1891 census > > 1901 Census Samuel age 34 butcher wife Julia 30 & Julia widow age 77 Mother is there > > 1903 Death of a Julia Poulter am waiting on Death Cert. > > So far I have not found a death for a John Pettit or various spellings & no marriage to a John Poulter. > > Would I now be right for what ever reason saying that John Pettit & John Poulter are one of the same & can anyone say why the names change from the different years at first I thought that Julia had remarried but when I was inputting Hannah's birth today & clicked to sort the children I saw that William is a Poulter for sure as I have his birth certificate, I had been looking for Hannah's for years under Poulter because of William's but only just found Hannah (which was very difficult to read on the GRO Index) & received the cert today which confirms not only surname but mother's name both the same. > > So any help as how to put this family down as well to what is going on, thanks if you managed to read down to here > Regards Janice > > ==== ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE Mailing List ==== > . > >

Hi again Janice Having had a look around, I suspect this is your John in 1841: Upend Hamlet, Kirtling (HO 107/65/4/6B) John Pettitt, 20, Ag Lab, Y Elizebeth Pettitt, 40/45, N Elizebeth Pettitt, 13, Y Elizer Pettitt, 10, Y (sharing house with Elizebeth Fisher, 80/82, N The Cambridgeshire Baptism Index on www.cfhs.org.uk gives probable baptisms for the two girls: 1828 Elizabeth Pettitt, d. of John & Elizabeth, Kirtling 1832 Eliza Pettitt, d. of John & Elizabeth, Kirtling My hypothesis would be that there is a marriage of a John Pettitt and Elizabeth Poulter in Cambridgeshire or nearby Suffolk sometime between 1820 and 1828 and that Elizabeth Poulter had an illegitimate son, John, before her marriage. But obviously this is only guesswork! Perhaps someone on the list could check the Cambridgeshire Marriage Index for an appropriate match in that timeframe. Regards Ruth ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ruth <historyscape@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:59:46 +0000 Subject: Re: [ENG-CAMB] What a Mystery To: eng-cambridgeshire-l@rootsweb.com Hi Janice I think that John Pettit and John Poulter are almost definitely one and the same. I've got two instances of interchangeable surnames in my Cambridgeshire family too. In one case, I have Joseph PARKER also known as Joseph THOROGOOD - his mother was married to a PARKER but living with a THOROGOOD when he was born. The other is a William HOBBS aka William HOWE - his parents William HOBBS and Alice HOWE married the year after he was born. The families of both these men interchanged their surnames over the years appearing as first one and then the other in various censuses. They both lived in Balsham. I suspect their backgrounds were so well known in a small place that various registrars and enumerators differed over which surnames to use for them. Have you found a baptism for John PETTITT als. POULTER yet? Best wishes Ruth On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:29:16 -0000, Janice Aitkens <janice.aitkens1@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone > It my Pettit (Pettitt)/ Poulter mystery, Here is what I have & would love to have some thoughts as to what you all think. > > 1844 Julia Jane Stigwood marries a John Pettit (signed Pettett) he a labourer have marriage cert. it does not state X for mark of mother > > 1851 Census Gives the family as Pettett with parents & children > > 1851 5th March I have a birth for a William Poulter (a twin so the record office said) Julia Jane Poulter formerly Stigwood X mark as informant Mother Father's occup Carter > > 1857 Hannah Pettit father John Pettit Coal Carter mother Julia Jane Pettit formerly Stigwood > > 1861 Census gives the family as Pettit father's occupation Labourer it shows both William & Hannah there plus older children & younger ones. > > 1871 Census it shows family as Poulter John's occupation Butcher, Julia is there as is William age 17 Butcher, Hannah 12 plus younger children. > > 1875 Hannah marries & gives her as Hannah Poulter father John Butcher (have cert) > > 1881 Census family Poulter John a Butcher, Julia is there & a Thomas age 25 Ag Lab & a Samuel age 14 Hannah is a widow with two children > > 1884 Hannah remarries in Bloomsbury London gives John Poulter butcher as father (have cert) > > 1889 There is a Death of a John Poulter (am waiting on cert) > > 1891 Census Julia widow Dealer & butcher there is a son James ag lab age 46 (he only ever shows on 1851 census) Samuel age 28 Butcher > > 1891 Census shows a Thomas Pettett age 36 Ag Lab with wife & family > > 1899 Samuel Marriage cert give him as Samuel Pettit Poulter Butcher father John Pettit Poulter > > 1901 Census shows a Thomas P Poulter ag lab with family does match names with the 1891 census > > 1901 Census Samuel age 34 butcher wife Julia 30 & Julia widow age 77 Mother is there > > 1903 Death of a Julia Poulter am waiting on Death Cert. > > So far I have not found a death for a John Pettit or various spellings & no marriage to a John Poulter. > > Would I now be right for what ever reason saying that John Pettit & John Poulter are one of the same & can anyone say why the names change from the different years at first I thought that Julia had remarried but when I was inputting Hannah's birth today & clicked to sort the children I saw that William is a Poulter for sure as I have his birth certificate, I had been looking for Hannah's for years under Poulter because of William's but only just found Hannah (which was very difficult to read on the GRO Index) & received the cert today which confirms not only surname but mother's name both the same. > > So any help as how to put this family down as well to what is going on, thanks if you managed to read down to here > Regards Janice > > ==== ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE Mailing List ==== > . > >

OK - my hypothesis would appear to be wrong! *Hangs head in shame* But I think it applies one generation further back... The British Vital Records Index (and the IGI) has a marriage on 25 March 1819 somewhere in Suffolk (unhelpfully they've grouped together all Suffolk Bishops Transcripts without specifying the parish) between John PETTITT and Elizabeth FISHER. Given the Fisher connection in the 1841 census entry I would have thought this was worth investigating further. Checking for baptisms, this one fits the bill: Kirtling: John PETTITT, bap.20 April 1821, son of John PETTITT and Elizabeth Other children of John and Elizabeth Pettitt baptised in Kirtling are: Susannah, bap.12 Dec 1824 Elizabeth, bap.15 Jun 1828 Eliza, bap.1 Jan 1832 Samuel, bap. 24 Oct 1833 Looking back another generation, here's a possible baptism for John senior: John Pettitt, son of Susan Pettitt, bap. 19 Dec 1797 And then there is a marriage between Samuel POULTER and Susannah PETTIT on 3 Jan 1802 in Kirtling! This couple has one child baptised in Kirtling - James bap. 3 Oct 1802. So it looks like your John may well have taken on his step (or possibly natural) grandfather's surname at stages during his life. Hope this helps (it's certainly helped distract me from the housework!) Ruth On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:36:34 +0000, Ruth <historyscape@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi again Janice > > Having had a look around, I suspect this is your John in 1841: > Upend Hamlet, Kirtling (HO 107/65/4/6B) > John Pettitt, 20, Ag Lab, Y > Elizebeth Pettitt, 40/45, N > Elizebeth Pettitt, 13, Y > Elizer Pettitt, 10, Y > (sharing house with Elizebeth Fisher, 80/82, N > > The Cambridgeshire Baptism Index on www.cfhs.org.uk gives probable > baptisms for the two girls: > 1828 Elizabeth Pettitt, d. of John & Elizabeth, Kirtling > 1832 Eliza Pettitt, d. of John & Elizabeth, Kirtling > > My hypothesis would be that there is a marriage of a John Pettitt and > Elizabeth Poulter in Cambridgeshire or nearby Suffolk sometime between > 1820 and 1828 and that Elizabeth Poulter had an illegitimate son, > John, before her marriage. But obviously this is only guesswork! > Perhaps someone on the list could check the Cambridgeshire Marriage > Index for an appropriate match in that timeframe. > > Regards > Ruth > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ruth <historyscape@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:59:46 +0000 > Subject: Re: [ENG-CAMB] What a Mystery > To: eng-cambridgeshire-l@rootsweb.com > > Hi Janice > > I think that John Pettit and John Poulter are almost definitely one > and the same. I've got two instances of interchangeable surnames in > my Cambridgeshire family too. In one case, I have Joseph PARKER also > known as Joseph THOROGOOD - his mother was married to a PARKER but > living with a THOROGOOD when he was born. The other is a William > HOBBS aka William HOWE - his parents William HOBBS and Alice HOWE > married the year after he was born. The families of both these men > interchanged their surnames over the years appearing as first one and > then the other in various censuses. They both lived in Balsham. I > suspect their backgrounds were so well known in a small place that > various registrars and enumerators differed over which surnames to use > for them. > > Have you found a baptism for John PETTITT als. POULTER yet? > > Best wishes > Ruth > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:29:16 -0000, Janice Aitkens > <janice.aitkens1@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > Hello Everyone > > It my Pettit (Pettitt)/ Poulter mystery, Here is what I have & would love to have some thoughts as to what you all think. > > > > 1844 Julia Jane Stigwood marries a John Pettit (signed Pettett) he a labourer have marriage cert. it does not state X for mark of mother > > > > 1851 Census Gives the family as Pettett with parents & children > > > > 1851 5th March I have a birth for a William Poulter (a twin so the record office said) Julia Jane Poulter formerly Stigwood X mark as informant Mother Father's occup Carter > > > > 1857 Hannah Pettit father John Pettit Coal Carter mother Julia Jane Pettit formerly Stigwood > > > > 1861 Census gives the family as Pettit father's occupation Labourer it shows both William & Hannah there plus older children & younger ones. > > > > 1871 Census it shows family as Poulter John's occupation Butcher, Julia is there as is William age 17 Butcher, Hannah 12 plus younger children. > > > > 1875 Hannah marries & gives her as Hannah Poulter father John Butcher (have cert) > > > > 1881 Census family Poulter John a Butcher, Julia is there & a Thomas age 25 Ag Lab & a Samuel age 14 Hannah is a widow with two children > > > > 1884 Hannah remarries in Bloomsbury London gives John Poulter butcher as father (have cert) > > > > 1889 There is a Death of a John Poulter (am waiting on cert) > > > > 1891 Census Julia widow Dealer & butcher there is a son James ag lab age 46 (he only ever shows on 1851 census) Samuel age 28 Butcher > > > > 1891 Census shows a Thomas Pettett age 36 Ag Lab with wife & family > > > > 1899 Samuel Marriage cert give him as Samuel Pettit Poulter Butcher father John Pettit Poulter > > > > 1901 Census shows a Thomas P Poulter ag lab with family does match names with the 1891 census > > > > 1901 Census Samuel age 34 butcher wife Julia 30 & Julia widow age 77 Mother is there > > > > 1903 Death of a Julia Poulter am waiting on Death Cert. > > > > So far I have not found a death for a John Pettit or various spellings & no marriage to a John Poulter. > > > > Would I now be right for what ever reason saying that John Pettit & John Poulter are one of the same & can anyone say why the names change from the different years at first I thought that Julia had remarried but when I was inputting Hannah's birth today & clicked to sort the children I saw that William is a Poulter for sure as I have his birth certificate, I had been looking for Hannah's for years under Poulter because of William's but only just found Hannah (which was very difficult to read on the GRO Index) & received the cert today which confirms not only surname but mother's name both the same. > > > > So any help as how to put this family down as well to what is going on, thanks if you managed to read down to here > > Regards Janice > > > > ==== ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE Mailing List ==== > > . > > > > >

Hi Ruth No I have not yet found a bapt for John Pettitt (Pettett/Pettetit) as I always thought he was just my GT GT Nan's 1st husband no point in chasing him as Hannah was a Poulter it is only with a great deal of help of Paula of this list that has show me the census which shows about Hannah as I could never find her birth no wonder it was under Pettit which the birth cert shows I do know I have the right one as the mother's maiden name is Stigwood. I could understand changing from one to another but registering the children differently as well I think I have to see if I can find more on the baptism of the children do you know if they are on line I am looking from 1844 onwards as well as earlier for John Pettitt. They say we lead difficult lives today is nothing compared to them lol thanks for your input it is very much appreciated Regards Janice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth" <historyscape@gmail.com> To: <ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-CAMB] What a Mystery > Hi Janice > > I think that John Pettit and John Poulter are almost definitely one > and the same. I've got two instances of interchangeable surnames in > my Cambridgeshire family too. In one case, I have Joseph PARKER also > known as Joseph THOROGOOD - his mother was married to a PARKER but > living with a THOROGOOD when he was born. The other is a William > HOBBS aka William HOWE - his parents William HOBBS and Alice HOWE > married the year after he was born. The families of both these men > interchanged their surnames over the years appearing as first one and > then the other in various censuses. They both lived in Balsham. I > suspect their backgrounds were so well known in a small place that > various registrars and enumerators differed over which surnames to use > for them. > > Have you found a baptism for John PETTITT als. POULTER yet? > > Best wishes > Ruth > > > > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:29:16 -0000, Janice Aitkens > <janice.aitkens1@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> Hello Everyone >> It my Pettit (Pettitt)/ Poulter mystery, Here is what I have & would love >> to have some thoughts as to what you all think. >> >> 1844 Julia Jane Stigwood marries a John Pettit (signed Pettett) he a >> labourer have marriage cert. it does not state X for mark of mother >> >> 1851 Census Gives the family as Pettett with parents & children >> >> 1851 5th March I have a birth for a William Poulter (a twin so the record >> office said) Julia Jane Poulter formerly Stigwood X mark as informant >> Mother Father's occup Carter >> >> 1857 Hannah Pettit father John Pettit Coal Carter mother Julia Jane >> Pettit formerly Stigwood >> >> 1861 Census gives the family as Pettit father's occupation Labourer it >> shows both William & Hannah there plus older children & younger ones. >> >> 1871 Census it shows family as Poulter John's occupation Butcher, Julia >> is there as is William age 17 Butcher, Hannah 12 plus younger children. >> >> 1875 Hannah marries & gives her as Hannah Poulter father John Butcher >> (have cert) >> >> 1881 Census family Poulter John a Butcher, Julia is there & a Thomas age >> 25 Ag Lab & a Samuel age 14 Hannah is a widow with two children >> >> 1884 Hannah remarries in Bloomsbury London gives John Poulter butcher as >> father (have cert) >> >> 1889 There is a Death of a John Poulter (am waiting on cert) >> >> 1891 Census Julia widow Dealer & butcher there is a son James ag lab age >> 46 (he only ever shows on 1851 census) Samuel age 28 Butcher >> >> 1891 Census shows a Thomas Pettett age 36 Ag Lab with wife & family >> >> 1899 Samuel Marriage cert give him as Samuel Pettit Poulter Butcher >> father John Pettit Poulter >> >> 1901 Census shows a Thomas P Poulter ag lab with family does match names >> with the 1891 census >> >> 1901 Census Samuel age 34 butcher wife Julia 30 & Julia widow age 77 >> Mother is there >> >> 1903 Death of a Julia Poulter am waiting on Death Cert. >> >> So far I have not found a death for a John Pettit or various spellings & >> no marriage to a John Poulter. >> >> Would I now be right for what ever reason saying that John Pettit & John >> Poulter are one of the same & can anyone say why the names change from >> the different years at first I thought that Julia had remarried but when >> I was inputting Hannah's birth today & clicked to sort the children I saw >> that William is a Poulter for sure as I have his birth certificate, I had >> been looking for Hannah's for years under Poulter because of William's >> but only just found Hannah (which was very difficult to read on the GRO >> Index) & received the cert today which confirms not only surname but >> mother's name both the same. >> >> So any help as how to put this family down as well to what is going on, >> thanks if you managed to read down to here >> Regards Janice >> >> ==== ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE Mailing List ==== >> . >> >> > > > ==== ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE Mailing List ==== > . > >