Every time I get a break - like finding these names or when Charles Heywood opened a bank account in NY in 1853 and had to give his parents' names [William Heywood and Elizabeth Kenworthy] - the lead dries up. His oldest son was named William and second daughter Elizabeth, for what that is worth. However, I've been doing genealogy since 1975 so am not about to give up now! The first letter of the name appears to have vertical strokes, no curves, so it must be either the M or H. It seems to have between 9-11 letters. I wonder if Thomas was an elderly man and thus the indistinct writing? I tried *thwaite plus Thomas in the burials prior to 1841 and there was no obvious candidate. And after all, unless you were in business, how many times did the average person - even one who was literate - write anything? The bride, Harriet Sutcliffe appears to be the d/o John and Ann/Nanny from Elland. She was bap 1814. Charles, bca 1811, is so far unidentified. The couple were in Liverpool by 1841 waiting to board ship for America and they sailed with her parents, John and Ann, [& all called Sutley] shortly after the census was taken. Thank you for looking and I am keeping all possibilities in mind until I find them - Liane

Liane, Baptism at St. Mary's Elland, Harriet SUTCLIFFE, 25 Dec 1814, dau. of John (Farmer) and Nanny, both of Greetland, Gordon. On 16 August 2011 12:33, lfenimore <lfenimore@columbus.rr.com> wrote: > Every time I get a break - like finding these names or when Charles Heywood > opened a bank account in NY in 1853 and had to give his parents' names > [William Heywood and Elizabeth Kenworthy] - the lead dries up.  His oldest > son was named William and second daughter Elizabeth, for what that is worth. > > However, I've been doing genealogy since 1975 so am not about to give up > now! > > The first letter of the name appears to have vertical strokes, no curves, so > it must be either the M or H.  It seems to have between 9-11 letters. I > wonder if Thomas was an elderly man and thus the indistinct writing?  I > tried *thwaite plus Thomas in the burials prior to 1841 and there was no > obvious candidate. > > And after all, unless you were in business, how many times did the average > person - even one who was literate - write anything? > > The bride, Harriet Sutcliffe appears to be the d/o John and Ann/Nanny from > Elland.  She was bap 1814.  Charles, bca 1811, is so far unidentified. > > The couple were in Liverpool by 1841 waiting to board ship for America and > they sailed with her parents, John and Ann, [& all called Sutley] shortly > after the census was taken. > > Thank you for looking and I am keeping all possibilities in mind until I > find them - > > Liane > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ > > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >