Thread: Puzzle - changing names

On my great grandma's birth cert, her mother's maiden name was Rees. I struggled to find the marriage of a Sarah Rees to George Day - but did find one of Sarah Gittins. Then I found a birth of a Sarah Gittins Rees - so guessed this could be the one.



I got the birth and marriage certs for Sarah - on her birth one, her mother is also Sarah Rees, no father. On the marriage one her father is now John Gittins, confectioner.



I am sure that this is all the same Sarah - and have followed her through all the censuses, sometimes as Rees, sometimes Gittins, living with her mother Sarah (also a confectioner who is always recorded as unmarried) in Llanidloes. She seems to have at least 2 sisters - at various times there are grandchildren of Sarah senior living there also - surname Pugh.



Have now received the marriage cert of who I think is Sarah's sister Eliza to Herbert Pugh - but Eliza's maiden name has now become Woodburn and her father is John Woodburn (confectioner). A witness to the marriage is Mary Ann Woodburn - who I think must be the other sister - a Mary Ann Woodburn married John Owen in 1860, and they live with Sarah senior in 1861.



Has anyone actually followed this? Any ideas about what actually happened gratefully received!



Liz

That's more or less the conclusion I had come to but it's good to hear it from someone else!



There seem to be an awful lot of "confectioners" in the Llanidloes area at that time!