Having just got a birth certificate to determine which of two similarly surnamed women was the mother of one of my ONS people (THUBRON), I decided to check how many marriage partners in my ONS had matching surnames, and was somewhat surprised. This is a fairly rare name and I like to think I have collected all the THUBRON marriages from the GRO Register, which amounts to about 750 from 1837 to 2005. Out of these 750 marriages there were many multiple occurrences of the same surname. The most common are: Thompson - 10 Brown - 10 Bell - 8 Harrison - 8 Hutchinson - 8 Smith - 6 Mills - 5 Many of them are possibly siblings/cousins marrying into the same family, and the majority of the marriages were in the Northeast of England. But I never considered Bell and Mills to be very common names. Adrian
Adrian I have quite a few, known as KCs. Kissing Cousins. One married twice in the same name; spinster then widow, fortunately out of study. Fowler ONS ________________________________ From: Adrian Abbott via <[email protected]> To: GOONS <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, 28 April 2016, 16:41 Subject: [G] Marriage partner coincidences Having just got a birth certificate to determine which of two similarly surnamed women was the mother of one of my ONS people (THUBRON), I decided to check how many marriage partners in my ONS had matching surnames, and was somewhat surprised. This is a fairly rare name and I like to think I have collected all the THUBRON marriages from the GRO Register, which amounts to about 750 from 1837 to 2005. Out of these 750 marriages there were many multiple occurrences of the same surname. The most common are: Thompson - 10 Brown - 10 Bell - 8 Harrison - 8 Hutchinson - 8 Smith - 6 Mills - 5 Many of them are possibly siblings/cousins marrying into the same family, and the majority of the marriages were in the Northeast of England. But I never considered Bell and Mills to be very common names. Adrian _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- 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