Hello Barbara I don't think many people had more than one forename at that time. I think you should first of all search for any possible deaths for Isabel(la) sometime after the birth of her last known child, whether this might have been as a result of a later child birth or just old age. If she died young then there is a good possibility that you need to look for a second marriage for Thomas but if she died in old age then you need to explore why you are finding a name difference. It may just be a clerical error somewhere which could be very difficult to deal with. You should check the Baptism Register for each child and not rely on the IGI because the original register, especially after 1812, may give additional information like the Abode and Occupation of the father so you can try to establish whether you are dealing with the same father. When you find the father's death it would be a good idea to search for a Will. Whilst only a smallish proportion of the population left Wills, if you find one and it is a good one, it could well clear up strange situations like this. Mike Shropshire, UK ______________________________________________________ Barbara Petura wrote: > Hello, > I am familiar -- from my German genealogy -- with women who had two or more given names and used them alternately in different records. My favorite example is Anna Margretha Groth who married John Nicholas Luehr. She was called Anna in some records, Margretha in others, but I finally confirmed these references were all to the same woman, my 2nd great-grandmother. > > My question is whether that same situation occurred with women in Shropshire in the 18th and 19th centuries. I have a specific puzzle that I am trying to solve. > > Thomas Ebrey married Isabella Gilchrist, daughter of John Gilchrist and Mary Challinar, on 31 Dec 1795 in Prees as shown on an IGI record and my own look at Shropshire microfilm. A number of their children have IGI records for baptisms showing Thomas Ebrey and Isabel or Isabella as parents. > > But an apparent son John Gilchrist Ebrey -- seemingly named for his maternal grandfather -- has an IGI record showing his parents as Thomas Ebrey and Eliz. John is known to be the brother of Robert Ebrey, whose parents are shown as Thomas Ebrey and Isabelle, based on John's daughter Jane appearing in the 1861 census as niece to Robert Ebrey, for whom she was keeping house. > > There is no IGI record for a marriage of a Thomas Ebrey and Elizabeth in Prees at the right time. Could the Eliz. and Elizabeth entries be errors or alternate given names? > > Any and all thoughts are welcome. Thank you. > > Barbara > Researching Booth, Challinar, Ebrey, > Lawton, Palin / Paling, Roden surnames > > > > > > > REMEMBER - The question you are asking may have already been answered. > Threaded Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/Archives > > Searchable Archives at - > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >