Your take on the bride's surname please.

[Sis]

Not quite sure what the bride's surname is. The first is a clip from their banns and the second from their marriage entry.

 

[Daft Bat]

Looks like either ENDEN or EUDEN to me...

 

[Archie's Mum]

Enden

 

[Daft Bat]

Enden

If you pop the surname ENDEN into FreeBMD under births, lots pop up - mainly in Kent. Was it a Kent marriage? If so, that could be a good indicator that it was a well known surname in the county.

 

[Sis]

Thank you ladies. There are a lot of Enden in Kent, but also a lot of Euden and in roughly the same area.

 

[Bay Horse]

Thank you ladies. There are a lot of Enden in Kent, but also a lot of Euden and in roughly the same area.

Isn't that just typical!

Going by the 'n' in Stephen, I would say Enden.

 

[Sis]

Thank you BH. Trouble is I found more info that has complicated things. May be back later to ask advice.

 

[Steve Bumstead]

Looking at the vicar's "u"s and "n"s it could really be either. If you're trying to place Sarah, your best bet is going to be tracing a family with a Stephen and Elizabeth about the right time. Witnesses were normally siblings or parents, although fathers are far more common than mothers

 

[arthurk]

My first thought was ENDEN, but if you look at the way the surname itself has been written, in virtually every case the 2nd and 5th letters are slightly different.

In the 2nd letters, the angle at the top of the right-hand stem goes to more of a point than in the 'n' at the end, so I'm now leaning towards EUDEN. However, this probably needs to be a provisional opinion pending Sis's further revelations.

 

[AnnB]

I must admit that I'm leaning towards EUDEN as well.

 

[janetbooth]

I think I would lean towards EUDEN comparing the letters in the surname with the "u" in Church and the "n" in Banns right underneath. It is marginal, but on balance I would plump for EUDEN.

Janet

 

[Sis]

Thank you everyone. I will post later what I have now found. Dinner becones!

 

[Chimp]

Henry was from the parish of Herne. The Banns were called in both Herne and Westbere where Sarah was from.

In Herne Sarah's surname is entered as Uden

If you were to hear the names Enden and Euden and spelled them phonetically Euden would sound like Uden.

So I recon it should be Euden too.

 

[Sis]

Thank you Chimp. Couldn't get my head around it, but 'twas easy wasn't it!

 

[Chimp]

Sarah Uden
Baptism date: 15 Mar 1801
Residence: Canterbury, Kent, England
Father: Edward Uden
Mother: Thomasin (nee Clark)

They also had a daughter Elizabeth in 1805 baptised in Westbere (3.5 miles from Canterbury)

 

[Chimp]

There is also a birth of a Stephen to an Edward and Thomazine Yewden (sic) on 27th November 1796 in Hoath, Kent (3.2 miles from Westbere)

 

[Bay Horse]

Well done, Chimp.

 

[Sis]

Yes, well done Chimp. I was all Udened out!! TD to the rescue again, thank you all.

 

[Chimp]

Thank you for giving me something I could have a go at. You lot have been posting some real posers lately . I had no chance with those

 

[Sis]

Thank you for giving me something I could have a go at. You lot have been posting some real posers lately . I had no chance with those

I'm the same! I'm pretty sure it's because I don't look at the right way to go about finding anything. I'm not very good at thinking outside the square! Sometimes I sit here trying to work out how to post about something I need help with and I end up working out the answer and don't have to post! Work that one out!