Has anyone researched the Essex Surname EANER? I have an ancestor with a second Christian name EANER which was often indicative of a family surname. Area around Colchester Thanks Graham

Graham, Though I do not research EANER I thought I would look about an FreeBMD for you. Maybe you have done this already. If not there are so few EARNER surnames and Earner forenames it is well worth doing some wide searches and get the whole clan. e.g say search 1840 - 1920 for All Types ( B D & M) for all County & Districts. Firstly for only EARNER as surname (You will only get a handful or so). Then try "Earner" as forename with no surname and again you will just get a handful and finally search for "* Earner" as forename(To find as second forename) and here you will get two I think. I can see probably connections between many of extracted people but none from Essex, but few from Middx. and Cambs. As an everyday transcriber for FreeBMD I would also advise rechecking the spelling of your EARNER. I had an example to day of a forename which I saw as either Renhen or Renken. As it was a bit sus I checked about on database and found both words had been used as Surnames and Forenames but VERY rarely, so I had a look at the original scans of two of these others and it was clear they should have been transcribed as "Reuben". So then I relocked at the scan I was working from and saw Reuben was indeed what it was for mine too. And remember the original hand written or typed material has lots of human error already embedded apart from just reading difficulties. Cheers ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Taylors" <gemat@83bramcote.freeserve.co.uk> To: <essex-uk@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 6:20 AM Subject: [Ess] Surname EANER > Has anyone researched the Essex Surname EANER? > > > > I have an ancestor with a second Christian name EANER which was often > indicative of a family surname. Area around Colchester > >