How popular is the name Beatrice and its variants? My Helen Innes who was according to census records from the same area as William's family and she named her 2nd daughter Betrice. So is this coincidence or is it a very popular name - this is the only instance of it in any of our family research. Kathryn, Melbourne Australia -----Original Message----- From: Anne Burgess [mailto:anne.burgess@btinternet.com] Sent: Friday, 6 May 2005 11:03 PM To: MORAY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MORAY] My spirits are rising > I am actually trying to find the birth for William Innes b: about 1778 > > > in Inveravon. Ah, I see. You may eventually have to accept that the record of William's birth and/or baptism has simply not survived. There are often gaps in the parish registers, especially before 1800, because either the information was never written down, or because the record was lost or destroyed. > Regrettably, the extract does not show where he is buried. The place of burial is shown only on death certificates from 1855 to 1859. > To try and find William's parents and concentrating on the year 1778 > only > I have been able to find a birth for that year but with parents being > James Innes and Beatrix Mason. Highly unlikely to be the right one, for several reasons (1) wrong parish (2) wrong father's name (3) there is no sign of a Beatrix among your William's descendants. There are at least two William Inneses of the right sort of age in the 1841 census in Mortlach, so you could try eliminating them by using the SP death records. Anne ==== MORAY Mailing List ==== Don't forget that if you delete a message, you can always visit the archives of this list http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MORAY/. The archives are also worth looking at, whether you be a new or established lister. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

Kathryn Rogers wrote: > How popular is the name Beatrice and its variants? Hi Kathryn Rare!! I've had a quick look at the 1841 Census of Aberdeenshire [courtesy of Michelle Jeffery]. Of course, this is only a very small and localised sample, but here is what I've found out. There are over 155000 people and 2165 name variants [both sexes]. I haven't counted but it will be roughly 80000 women. There are 65 people with 20 variants of Beatrice [18 occurrences]. Beatrix [21] is the most frequent spelling. Betridge [3] and similar variants, account for about a quarter. [We have listed many of the variants on the website.] Allowing for some recorded as "Betty", etc, to be in the group, it looks like about 0.1% of women were called Beatrice. It's difficult to be sure but I would guess that it would have been a rare name in N E Scotland in 1841. Another little extract [by Gavin Bell] shows no occurrences of any variant in 1851 in the Parish of Rathven. Best wishes Ray Hennessy www.whatsinaname.net