From: "Tony Proctor" <tony@proctor.net> > Which region Margaret? > > Baverstock is a surname in the Hyson Green area, and I can easily imagine > this being mistranscribed as Barenstock. > > Tony Proctor > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Margaret thompson" <maggie09.thompson@ntlworld.com> > To: "nottsgen" <nottsgen@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 1:12 PM > Subject: Re: [NTT] help please > > > > I'm struggling to find a barenstock surname or something like it.can > > anyone > > help please I've tried many variations but nothing comes up.thank you.m.> > I suspect Tony is right! The 1881 census has just one entry for an EDWIN BARENSTOCK, a lodger and carpenter at Croydon, born Bournemouth, Hampshire 1860. The actual writing is very difficult to make out, but in 1891 he has become Edwin BAVERSTOCK and FreeBMD has his birth in the June quarter of 1860 at Christchurch RD as Edwin Frederick Baverstock. Was this by any chance the man you seek? Surname Atlas (based on the 1881 data) has 690 Baverstocks, the largest number being in Hampshire. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE