A marriage notice from the Yorkshire Gazette of 8 April 1837 was a little out of the ordinary:
"The blooming bride has withstood the blasts of upwards of fifty winters, whilst her lord has not yet escaped from the thraldom of his legal infancy,—being, we understand, above thirty years her junior."
Having an ancestor's surname as a christian name is obviously useful in following family lines and can provide useful pointers.
Having come across Love as a surname (7114 of them in 1881 and well spread across the country) could Love as a forename indicate a family connection, or is it a christian name in its own right? (In 1881 there were 344 instances).
If used as a middle name is that more likely to be a naming after an ancestor?
I have found a number of burials in Essex for "Nurse children" (example: Roydon in the 1600s). I have seen an article on this but it still did not really explain how the children came from London to certain parishes in Essex or why. Can anyone help?
Another reference in a parish was the burials of some "chrysome" children. I have just found this: A child who has died before it's mother was "churched" and the Chrisom cloth (placed on the child at the time of it's baptism becames it's shroud. The entry in the parish register was then for a "Chrisom child" [source: The local historians glossary of words and terms by Joy Bristow]
I don't remember seeing these terms in any Lincolnshire parish register.
