Links with the aristocracy - the perils of genealogy

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Links with the aristocracy - the perils of genealogy

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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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I know someone born about 1950 who has the first name Baron.
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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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there is a long list of people that have titles for christian names, like general
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A Rose family went in for this in a grand way

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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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Post by Margarett »

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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