Re: Farnish family
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Farnish family
Nick Martin 8/20/01
I am researching the Franish family for my wife as her mother was a Farnish.
When you extract the rubbish and duplicates from the IGI list, it leaves 160 individuals spelt FARNISH. 108 are in Yorkshire starting 1681. 47 are in Suffolk starting from 1760, and 5 in London starting from 1833.
The first one was Thomas chr in Knaresborough in 1681. Has anyone looked at the relevant Manorial records.
My wife's mother came from the London branch but the earliest individual doesn't seem to fit with a Suffolk birthplace or a Yorkshire birthplace, so I am stuck for the moment.
Any ideas about the spelling of the name and its origin?
Regards
Ted