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Re: More Andreas records
In Response To: Re: More Andreas records ()

Hi Lyle,

To attempt to answer your questions:

Larebane was an earlier name for the place name Larivane.

You asked: "Do the numbers represent people present?"

Were you referring to the numbers in the Visitation?
It was similar to a census in that it gave the names of the householder and his wife and the number of residents there under the age of 16 (under male or female), but unnamed.
"The names of married persons, of widowers and widows in the parish of Kk Andrew's, with the number of males & females adult, and under sixteen years in each family."

So after naming the husband and wife, the first column has the number of males in the household aged 16 and over. The second column has females 16 and over; the third column has males under the age of 16, and the fourth column has the number of females aged under 16.

"Bignal" seems to be an identification name (or nickname) sometimes used in the parish register, like with "Lord".

The parts that DSD (or Nigel?) added to their transcripts are in italics, so if the wife's forename is there not in italics it comes from the original volume.
It has the marriage as 1722, so it can't be your Philip Teare 1710-1784. I looked it up and it doesn't have "Bignal" in the marriage register (but presumably has it in other family records). It was on 26 Jan.1722/23.

Frances has a list of "Andreas Marriages 1703-1757" on her website which has two Teares "Bignal" including the couple at no.75 (son of no.74).

The Phil Tear & Alice Curghey ("Lord") who married in 1745 should have been in the Andreas visitation (perhaps unnamed in his father's household?) - or perhaps had changed parishes.

Sue