Many, many thanks to Roy, Roy, Valerie, Debbie and Yvonne for responding so quickly, helpfully and fully. So I have Ambrose, and have learned about alternative spellings! Watson is intriguing. My guess is that will Roy will solve it! Again, thanks to all. Much appreciated. Garry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 5:59 PM Subject: [SPAM] Re: [ENG-YKS-BRADFORD] Watmuff - found it! > From: "Janet C" <[email protected]> > >> Hi again >> >> It's on YorkshireBMD site:- http://www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk >> >> 1854 - WHATMOUGH Ambrose Shipley Bradford SHIP/12/14 >> >> You can follow the link at the end of the entry on the site to order >> the certificate direct from the local registrar.> > > I can now confirm that the entry is also in the GRO Indexes in the June > quarter of 1854. Silly me - when I looked earlier and couldn't find it I > didn't > look for the name with an "H" after the "W" ! > > Clearly, either the family or different officials spelt it in several > different > ways, i.e Watmough, Whatmough and Watmuff, while in the 1837online > version of the 1861 census he has been mistranscribed as AMBROS > WALMOUGH. > > I am still intrigued, though, by the two births I found of a Watson > Watmuff. Clearly the first one who was born and died in 1854 could not > have been a brother of Ambrose but there was definitely a nine-year-old > Watson Watmuff living with the family in the 1881 census. Coincidence > or could the first Watson who died in infancy have been a cousin? > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >