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Did someone have 'onions lewis'

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Rambling

Rambling Report 7 Nov 2013 14:11

in their research box or am I going crackers and just happen to have seen it elsewhere?

If so

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2013/11/06/shrewsbury-grandmothers-quest-to-find-out-who-she-is/

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PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 7 Nov 2013 14:23

Do you want cheese with them crackers?

lol x

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"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 7 Nov 2013 14:26

Marriages Dec 1891 (>99%)
Lewis Richard Onions Wolstanton 6b 154
Tunstall Edna Wolstanton 6b 154

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"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

Rambling

Rambling Report 7 Nov 2013 14:29

I think I might have that cheese please PH :-) maybe I just saw the name somewhere else and it stuck in my mind :-S

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PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 7 Nov 2013 14:31

Looking at the "O"s in the 1911 census, there appeas to be a few more Onions!!

Household transcription
1911 census

Person: LEWIS, Edna
Address: 33 Upper Green Newcastle Staffordshire

LEWIS, Richard O Head Married M 39 1872 Coal Miner Hewer Shropshire Shrewsbury VIEW
LEWIS, Edna Wife Married F 37 1874 N Staffordshire Tunstall VIEW
LEWIS, Ann Daughter Single F 18 1893 Machinist Sewing Clothing Manuf N Staffordshire Tunstall VIEW
LEWIS, Lillian M O Daughter Single F 16 1895 Machinist Sewing Clothing Manuf N Staffordshire Tunstall VIEW
LEWIS, Richard O Son M 14 1897 Colliery Horse Driver Under Ground N Staffordshire Tunstall VIEW
LEWIS, Thomas Son M 12 1899 School N Staffordshire Hanley VIEW
LEWIS, Florence G Daughter F 8 1903 School Lancashire Ashton U Lyme VIEW
LEWIS, May Daughter F 5 1906 School N Staffordshire Tunstall VIEW
LEWIS, James O Son M 3 1908 N Staffordshire Silverdale VIEW
RG number: RG14
Piece: 16415
Reference: RG14PN16415 RG78PN1017 RD359 SD2 ED14 SN142
Registration District: Newcastle under Lyme
Sub District: Newcastle under Lyme
Enumeration District: 14
Parish: Newcastle under Lyme
Address: 33 Upper Green Newcastle Staffordshire
County: Staffordshire


Could be worse i spose............their surname could have been Pickle!!!

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"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 7 Nov 2013 14:38

Many people with the surname Onions now spell it O'nions.

Rather like Bucket and Bouquet!!!

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We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 7 Nov 2013 16:15

I used to know somebody with the surname onions and he didn't pronounce it as the vegetable but O ni(as in night) ons as in ('on')


sorry Rose not much help in your quest though. :-)

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Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

Kuros

Kuros Report 7 Nov 2013 16:23

You been on the tablets again, Rose?

Annie

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 7 Nov 2013 17:16

When my relative first told me my grandmother's maiden name I thought he said O 'nions but it's Hiorns.

Imagine having to spell your surname out most of the time, must get very annoying.

Lizx

Chris the gardening

Chris the gardening Report 7 Nov 2013 21:01

I have a Lewis Onions in my family but they came from Walsall in Staffordshire

ChAoTicintheNewYear

ChAoTicintheNewYear Report 7 Nov 2013 21:20

Err...Rose, do you really want an answer to that :-P ;-)

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Kids with special needs are not weird or odd. They only want what everyone else wants...to be accepted.

Rambling

Rambling Report 7 Nov 2013 21:30

Probably best not Cat ;-) :-D

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LaGooner

LaGooner Report 7 Nov 2013 22:29

We have quite a few of the Onions here in my village (Bedfordshire)

TessAkaBridgetTheFidget

TessAkaBridgetTheFidget Report 8 Nov 2013 03:03

A distant relation married a Minnie Onions in Derbyshire, in the 1800's

In spite of it being a rather unusual surname, there are also Onions in my in-law tree. (Oldbury area)

As far as I know these families are not connected.

Edit. Haven't found an Onions Lewis on either side of the family.

Researching:
Woodhouse and Trilloe from Herefordshire; Lockyear and Date from Somerset, Thomas and Edwards from Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire, also Argyll, Tipperary, Limerick, Cork