Frampton, Dorset - Parish registers

Daft Bat said:
Initial thought was Cornelius...
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... and I think you might be right! Can't initially place a likely Cornelius Hill, but he may be of the groom's party from Frome in Somerset. I can't imagine what else the name is likely to be ... I have put Cornelius[?] in the transcript -- the [?] not to indicate my lack of faith in you Jan, but in myself! ...

Thanks
 
Of course this may be the wrong Ms Hill I don't know how far Blandford is from Frampton, am only accustomed to Frampton on Severn across the paddocks, tho' she may have travelled over for the happy occasion.
 
Ma-dotcom said:
I see 'Crenelia' perhaps a version of Cornelia?

just checked FreeBMD a
Deaths Dec 1867
Hill Cornelia 57 Blandford 5a -157

May be she?
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Cornelia Hill
Burial: 13 Dec 1867, Tarrant-Hinton, Dorset
Age: 57

Tarrant-Hinton comes under the Blandford registration district.

Cornelia Hill was born in Tarrant-Hinton in 1809, the daughter of William and Mary Hill.

Christening dates vary 26th December 1809, 1st August 1810 and 2nd August 1810.

In the 1861 census she was a 51 year old border in Stourpaine, Blandford Registration District.

If Cornelia is the witness then she would have been 25/6 at the time.
 
Hello
I have another troublesome witness, I've prepared a snippet but can't seem to load my image :( I'll try again later but if anyone has access to Dorset Parish records on Ancestry and wants to try :--


Marriage 16 Jan 1845 in Frampton
between Robert Marsh RENDALL and Amelia Davis CHICK

I cannot at the moment sensibly interpret the signature of the second witness

Thank you
 
What a stinker - I cannot sort out anything for the first name (is the first letter A ? and could it end 'ine'?) and ?orth?? for the second - so I am of no help whatsoever, sorry. I will keep pondering.
 
I am thinking the first name may be Amelia/Amelie? or am I being misled by the bride being called Amelia ... :confused:, I even thought it might be Adeline. It does look to me that the first letter is an A.
The surname looks to me like Fortnis/Fortnes, but that doesn't appear to be a real name, so I was toying with the idea of Fortune -- but it doesn't really look like that.
Besides none of these possibilities seem to lead anywhere :(
 
I too thought Amelia at first glance, I have tried Emeline (on the 1841 census, but nothng that jumps out at me, or looks remotely like the surname). I have found Robert on the 1841 HO107 285 7/16 27 - he was 29 and there is a Miriam Bennett with him and his mother (?), Amelia was just 15 on the 1841 HO107 286 7/7 9 (her mum is also Amelia) and there is Francis Stone and Sarah Hansford listed with the Chicks, so no help there either.
 
Hmmm, well I have stared at this enough for one afternoon. She/he isn't apparent in any other Frampton records I've so far looked at, and I am beginning to feel slightly peeved, so I will do something else for a while

... I have tried Amelia, Aneline/Anelina and even Aquila as the first name, even Caroline in a moment of desparation ...

Have taken all comments and opinions on board but at the moment I cannot move beyond "A???line FORT???" in my transcription effort, as that is what I see :confused:, although I would love to be able to see/be persuaded to see something that is actually a name ;)
 
Me too!
Hurrah! 8(:-)

I did look to see if John Chick (the other witness) married an Amelia, but hadn't got as far as thinking that Robert might have married her!

And Fookes is a proper Dorset name too, it should have occurred to me, especially as I had briefly considered that what I was thinking a "t" was a "k" o_O. it was one of those cases where the answer is on the brink of your consciousness but won't come out, I was hoping if I left alone a while that it would jump out at me when I came back. But Huncamunca beat me to it with proper detective work. Well Done, Huncamuna
 
(Re: witness 1 in the image below) I read this 1867 witness.jpgas Thos. O.W. Saunders, which I will go along with in my transcription, with reservations. Cannot immediately find any person with this name, which I suppose doesn't really matter, but would rather be surer --- any ideas?
 
Have a look at the 1911 census at RG 14/5832, SD2 ED1 schedule no. 244 (in Bournemouth). The head of the household, 79 year old Thomas Christopher William Saunders, has signed the schedule. The signature is very like that of your witness, except that what looks like an 'O' in the witness's signature is more obviously a 'C'.
 
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