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From: "larc" <>
Subject: Re: [DOR] More Dorset CRANE queries
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:44:10 -0400
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Hi Pam,
FYI...There are MANY Crane's in Newfoundland. You may wish
to check the Newfoundland GenWeb and the Grand Banks Genweb.
Because of the trading and shipping that occured between
Nfld and Britian while they were British subjects, many
migrated to Nfld. Due to the fact that they didn't join
Canadian Confederation until 1949, many of the Canadian laws
didn't pertain to them and they have so much posted online,
it is overwhelming.
Slade & Poole were one of the main merchants and Robert
Newman & Co. was another.
Good luck in your search.
Lori-Ann

----- Original Message -----
From: Golding <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: [DOR] More Dorset CRANE queries


> Good evening,
> During this quiet season, you've managed to give me some
new ideas to follow
> up on my elusive paternal ancestors.
> Could you help me on this one please?
> It was mentioned on list about children being named after
various family
> members in rotation, which can be great clues in tracing
and matching
> children to parents, grandparents etc.
> the marriage of John CRANE (b. 1780 Child Okeford) to Mary
HOOPER (b c.1781)
> is still a mystery as to exact time and place, but must
have been around
> 1800/1801 - and until this mystery is solved, I have a
problem dating and
> placing one of their elder children.
> Through Parish records I have a daughter, Frances
christened 1802 at Child
> Okeford; and through the Somerset & Dorset Family History
Burial Index, I
> have her burial - she died young unmarried.
> Through the marriage registers and the 1841 Census, I have
a second child,
> another daughter born around 1806 - Donna Catherine
Matilda Hooper Crane.
> Of her birth I have no information anywhere in Dorset,
certainly not in
> Child Okeford or a christening at Wimborne Minster, where
her younger
> brother and sisters were christened.
> And her name, surely there must be loads of clues in her
name: Catherine
> was her maternal grandmother"s name (Catherine Hooper),
but 'Donna' and
> 'Matilda'.? There are no unusual names like that in the
paternal line, so it
> must all be in the maternal line. Donna is not very
common - could this
> indicate a foreign relative?
> Am I right in thinking that in this period of history, a
multiple christian
> name was out of the ordinary in Dorset?
>
> Any fresh ideas for me to starting hunting would be much
appreicate as
> always.
> Many thanks
> Pam in Yeovil
>
>
>
>
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