Help with Name Please

[MollyMay]

Looking at the marriage of Sarah West to Thomas Musson 13/12/1804 (imag on Anc) at St Mary the Virgin Twickenham, I cannot make out the Christian name of the second witness.

Richard Weston is easy enough (and included for reference, but the second one defeats me - Not even sure if the surname is Miles (my first thought).

 

[AnnB]

My first thought is Ataliah but anyone with that name seems to be a bit thin on the ground

 

[MollyMay]

My first thought is Ataliah but anyone with that name seems to be a bit thin on the ground

That was what I read it as, but cannot find anyone called that

 

[Sis]

I saw Atalia too. There's Athalia on Wikipedia. That's all I could find.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athaliah

 

[AnnB]

Looking on FreeBMD there are a lot of entries for Athalia/Athaliah. There’s the death of an Athalia Miles in 1902, registered in Aylesbury and there’s a marriage between an Athalia White and a John Miles in 1848, also in Aylesbury, but that’s a bit of a way from Twickenham.

 

[Bay Horse]

How is it pronounced? (is the 'h' silent as in 'Thalia'?)

 

[Daft Bat]

How is it pronounced? (is the 'h' silent as in 'Thalia'?)

That's how I would say it.

 

[MollyMay]

Athalia it is then - thanks everyone.

I dont think the marriage in 1848 can be her, as Sarah West married in 1804, had a child in Twickenham in 1805 and then up sticks with Thomas, and spent the rest of her life in Stamford Lincolnshire, having another 7 children there. Martha the child born in Twickenham is buried age 22 in Stamford, so I know I have the right lot