Links with the aristocracy - the perils of genealogy

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Links with the aristocracy - the perils of genealogy

Postby SRD » Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:52 am

Checking out the probate documents of Frank Hingley (1860 - 1941), one of my distant uncles, I was elated to see that one of the executors, his daughter Edith, was the wife of Baron Mole. Really! The daughter of a warehouseman had married into the aristocracy!! I had to find that story!!!
Desperate googling ensued but I could find no mention in Debretts, or anywhere else for that matter, of a Barony in the name of Mole, imagination ran riot, was he some kind of conman? was there a scandal? Slowly reason took hold, I found Edith's marriage, to a Lawrence B Mole, and, sure enough, further research showed the B to stand for Baron! :lol: and much deflation of SRD :oops:
Leaving aside why anyone would want to christen their child Baron, or why that child might want to call himself Baron, I though this was an object lesson in the perils of over excitement in the study of genealogy.
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Re: Links with the aristocracy - the perils of genealogy

Postby Jimmy » Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:11 am

I know someone born about 1950 who has the first name Baron.
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Re: Links with the aristocracy - the perils of genealogy

Postby Lulu » Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:53 am

My first Husband was friends with someone called Baron, he would have been born in the 1940s. Lived up Quinton way.
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Re: Links with the aristocracy - the perils of genealogy

Postby peterd » Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:05 pm

there is a long list of people that have titles for christian names, like general
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Re: Links with the aristocracy - the perils of genealogy

Postby gardener » Sun Aug 27, 2017 12:54 pm

A Rose family went in for this in a grand way

https://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/t ... ver=412485
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Re: Links with the aristocracy - the perils of genealogy

Postby SRD » Mon Aug 28, 2017 7:04 am

gardener wrote:A Rose family went in for this in a grand way

https://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/t ... ver=412485
:lol:
They weren't in the Sally Ann were they?
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Re: Links with the aristocracy - the perils of genealogy

Postby Margarett » Sat Sep 16, 2017 3:00 pm

I remember doing a bit of research on the Rose family quite a few years ago now. I was one of the original transcribers of the 1881 census, pre- digital days and came across them then. Very interesting family, with names like Captain, Major and General!
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