decipher name

[ptjw7]

Hi All,
I have this marriage for John Buckman and ?.
Several trees on antree give the female name as Mary Ann Birdflitton but I can find no other person with a name like that on any site.
My view is that it is probable a double barrel name such as Bird Hilton but could be anything, any ideas.

peter

 

[emeltee]

Hi,

Both FreeReg and the printed book of Edmonton marriages has the name as Birdfletton.

Emeltee

 

[ptjw7]

Thanks emeltee but if you do a search on any genealogy site then no person comes up with the name Birdfletton so I am suspicious that it is not a real name, if you see what I mean!

peter

 

[emeltee]

Yes I do see what you mean. I can't find a birth for her or any other Birdfletton. However even Anc and fmp give Birdfletton. Have you tried using Soundex to see what other variants come up?

Emeltee

 

[DaveHam9]

The transcription of the Middlesex marriage registers gives the name as Birdfletton but it looks to be written as heard because it does not seem to exist as such.

I've tried Bird* but found nothing.

 

[jay]

Could the last name be Hutton? The " I " has not been dotted so it could be a " u ".

Just a thought.

Jay

 

[Lirio100]

Perhaps Hetton or Helton?

 

[ptjw7]

Thanks everyone for trying but no joy.
I think I will send for one of childrens birth cert and see if the mothers name is on it!


I will have to pick carefully as one of the children was born after the father died?
Peter

 

[emeltee]

Do let us know what name appears on the birth certificate, please.

Emeltee

 

[ptjw7]

Have sent for certificate, so we will see what is on there.

Peter

 

[ptjw7]

Hi All, got the cert today and it looks like the name is Birdflitton.

So still to find another with the same name.

Very puzzling!.

Peter

 

[emeltee]

What a shame that the cert didn't answer all the questions! I was wondering if her name was originally May Ann Bird Flitton and I have found a Mary Ann Flitton on familysearch the daughter of James Flitton and Elizabeth Bird. The only snag is that she was baptised 2/1/1808 in Bassingbourn, Cambridge. Do you have any details about her at all, other than her marriage to John Buckman. Does she appear on any Censuses?

Emeltee

 

[ptjw7]

Thanks for that but she was only on the 1841 census, died 1849 and it reckons she was local to Edmonton, London but I suppose she could have come from anywhere.
I have also been thinking that she could be a Flitton with mother a Bird, as you have suggested, but I cannot think of anyway to prove it!

Peter