Genealogy Chat

I think the name Saron has biblical connections it is a fairly common girls name and village name in Wales

I've googled Curshon & found it as a place name (as well as a surname), though I doubt that's where this family got the inspiration from. his burial record says Curshon too, although he died shortly after his baptism, so it was probably the same vicar making both entries. Its definitely not been used as a surname in these lines as far as I know (not parents/grandparents)

Aaron can be used for a girl as well. I work in a secondary school and we have a girl pupil called Aaron.

Thank you for your input everyone, looks like a combination of flowery handwriting and local Black Country accents. I rather like Betheris now I'm a bit more used to it! I'll go with Gershon & Beatrice as ''modern'' equivalents; keeping an open mind on Aaron till I've seen the original for myself. Incidentally, both parents were literate, perhaps it was the vicar who wasn't particularly well-read!

Just in case the names occurred somewhere really obscure, I ran them through the search on my copy of the King James Bible on my Palm. None of them occurs, in the spellings shown, anywhere in the KJB (unless it's in one of the Apocryphal books which aren't in the set in the Palm). I reckon a script-interpretation problem is more likely. Christine

I ran Curshon through a name checker and it says most Curshon's come from Sweden so maybe your ancestors were vikings after all.

LOL Annie - this lot are my mum's line, the Vikings are on my dad's side!

Hello I have just googled them all and found that BETHERIS is actually a surname PARON is a town in FRANCE and Uttar Pradesh India and Rajasthan India and CURSHON is also a surname. I hope these help. Betheris could also be a mis-spelling of BERIS , a Welsh name. Yours Miriam Abbott