2 May 2021

Today we want to confirm Kitty Whitehead’s given name. Was it Catherine or Caroline?

1841 – In census as KITTY Whitehead
1851 - In census as CATHERINE Whitehead
1857 – Banns read as CATHERINE Whitehead
1858 – Married George Tew as CAROLINE Whitehead
1861 – In census as KITTY Tew
1871 – Census as KITTY Tew
1879 – Baptism of daughter Annie Louisa as KITTY Tew
1881 – In census as KATE Tew
1891 – In census as KATE Tew
1901 – In census as KATE Tew
1911 – In census as KATE Tew
1917 – Death registration as KATE Tew

The marriage certificate is the only place where her name is not Catherine or a shortened form of it. The original does read as Caroline but none of the people involved could write their own names so it is possibly a transcription error on the part of the registrar. We would need to find the original parish register entry to check. They married at the parish church in Shalstone. The registers are available at Buckingham Record Office.