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Heh. Send your mum over to Chat.

(Oh well, it's been deleted. A post moaning about the dreadful Americanism "gotten", which predictably - given begotten and misbegotten and such words - turned out to be early English, retained in North America and abandoned in the UK.)

I was ... once bitten, twice shy. ;)

Edit - found it:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1158366

Diabolical grammer that is,or americanese or canuckese maybe

"I've been bit by that mosquito!"

Mother would have a pink fit,,,it IS"bitten" surely.

Well, the Sep 1858 birth reg is MORDEY.

MORDUE seems to be a fairly common name in Durham.

MORDY / MORDEY even more so.

"Mordue" is the feminine form of the French adjective/past participle meaning "bit", as in "I've been bit by that mosquito!"

(I hesitate to say "bitten" lest that be some awful North American perversion like "gotten" ... which turned out, after some discussion on Chat last week, to be olde Englishe anyhow.)

The pronunciation of "ue" in French is halfway between "oo" and "ee" anyhow, so maybe along the way from the Conquest it went both ways. ;)

Viv writes that one on the calender.
I never even saw your lot janey,I was working off dinah.

Trouble is that the 1861 image is definatley ,MORDY.
Name changed slightly over the years maybe ,or the census taker couldn,t spell the name any better than Karli !!

PM sent to owner of private tree at Ancestry who has Dinah in his tree, and is apparently related to the tree owner here at GR who has Dinah also.

Oh eek, I hit on the wrong one. I was looking at these ones

1861

William Mordue 33 (born Durham)
Jane Morden 34 (born Durham)
Mary Morden 4
Elizabeth Morden 1
John Howston 74

in Tynemouth.

Along with:

Name: Dinah Mordue
Age: 12
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1849
Relation: Niece
Gender: Female
Where born: Longhorsley, Northumberland, England

which I now see, duh, was the wrong Dinah.


So Karli - I'd do what I said by PM, and contact the tree owner here at GR who has Dinah Mordue, 1856, Belmont, in her tree.

And I'd stop spelling it MONDUE (you did it again).

thankyou all for your help very grateful
Karli

1861 England Census
about Dinah Mordy
Name: Dinah Mordy
Age: 2
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859
Relation: Daughter
Father's Name: Thomas
Mother's Name: Jane
Gender: Female
Where born: Belmont, Durham, England

Civil parish: Hallgarth and Pittington
County/Island: Durham
Country: England

Street Address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

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Registration district: Durham
Sub-registration district: St Nicholas
ED, institution, or vessel: 17
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 28
Household Members:
Name Age
Thomas Mordy 40
Jane Mordy 40<<born ,rainton,same as 1871 census
Wilm Mordy 16
Mary Mordy 7
Dinah Mordy 2

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Original
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im so sorry my details are bad ,it makes me so muddled at times .i have nt got 1861 cencus so am hoping someone can help me there . im very grateful for all the searching you ve done you ve been a great help to me
Karli

Are you using Ancestry?

(I suspect not, since you had the name misspelled, unless that was your spelling error, in which case both Vivienne and I will be happy to throttle you for not proofreading your post.)

Someone has corrected the name for Jane and two daughters at Ancestry in 1861, from Morden to Mordue (the husband's name is spelled correctly).

By clicking on the correction in Jane's record at Ancestry, you can contact the person who made the correction, who seems to still be an active member there.

If you don't have an Ancestry subscription, I'll volunteer -- send me your email address by private message, and a few words about your connection with Jane/Dinah, and I'll send a message to that person through the Ancestry system.

i wondered how to reply never looked there ,its big enough to see , my age is telling ha ha ,or my eyes are bad , glad you told me
thankyou Karli

Hi Karli -- glad you figured out the Reply button -- private messages in response to posts in threads make one crazy. ;) (I got one too.)

Yes, Karli, it would have helped enormously if you had given the info you had in the first place!!! I would not have spent time doing all the searching you see in this thread, if you'd started out saying that Dinah's name was LIddle in 1881.

Jane is a widow in 1871 and Dinah is the only child.

Of course, at 54, Jane was old enough there could have been older children who had flown.

I won't try the 1861 census if you're doing it. ;)

is 1871 cencus saying there s only the 2 of them and she s still a widow
if so i will have to go back further to 1861 cencus .to see if there s other children , thankyou all karli

pm from karli

From Karli i have found her on 1881 cencus living with daughter dinah liddle ,hope this can help
karli

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Karli

To reply on here please use the big purple "reply" button at the top of the posting.

1881

Name: Dinah Liddle
Age: 21
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1860
Relation: Wife
Spouse's Name: John
Where born: Belmont, Durham, England

Civil parish: Haswell

John Liddle 25
Dinah Liddle 21
William Liddle 3
> Jane Mordue 65


There you are. I don't want to spoil your fun, Karli, so do you want to take it from there? ;)

Loads of ,,moRdue,,though.

However


Births Sep 1858
Mordey Dinah Durham 10a 249


Belmont is in Durham reg dist.

That could be a mistranscription; I haven't checked.


Marriages Mar 1877
Finside Charlotte Easington 10a 478
LIDDLE John Easington 10a 478
> Mordue Dinah Easington 10a 478
Thompson Andrew Stephenson Easington 10a 478


Now -- what's the question? ;)

1871

Name: Dinah Mordue
Age: 12
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859
Relation: Daughter
Mother's Name: Jane
Gender: Female
Where born: Belmont, Durham, England
Civil parish: Haswell

Jane Mordue 54
Dinah Mordue 12


It seems to be MORDUE pretty clearly on the image, and Mordue actually is a surname.

Haswell ,co durham ,to be precise.

And I dont have a ,,mondue ,,coming up for anything on ,,freebmd ,,either

Can you give some more info, and say where you got it?

It isn't clear whether this info came from a census, e.g.

I don't see any Jane Mondue in 1871 or 1881. It's predictable she'd be mistranscribed, but to start looking one would need an idea of where, for starters.


... and there's me not reading the subject line again. Durham.