by Katykat » Tue Apr 09, 2019 3:20 pm
I know family name sometimes change possibly due to people being illiterate and not realising their surname has been misspelt ( in my husbands family a story circulates that they missed out on a large inheritance because somewhere along the line their name changed from Standley to Stanley) I have a conundrum here. Following a hint on Familysearch, it tells me that William Booker b 1734 was the last child of William BookHAM. All his siblings were called BOOKHAM except him. Given that this information has been compiled by a person rather than Familysearch itself, I’m thinking that it might be a mistake and that my William Booker may not be the child of William BOOKHAM. I’ve been led on a wild goose chase like this before when I followed a similar hint with a different relative ( although the same family) and was incandescent when the links led right back to William the Conquerer. Only to find that one name was slightly different and this wasn’t my tree after all. So my question is, how feasible is it that one child would have a slightly different surname than his siblings and parents?
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