I came across this today on the FamilySearch.org web site. It clarifies the situation (mentioned in an earlier blog post) of my ancestor Crispin Mennell who took his mother's maiden name with him to the United States when he emigrated from England to Albany, New York in 1817 (Source: History of Lorain County, Ohio 1807-1879, Williams Brothers, p. 260):
Crispin Mennell: "We have A copy of the original baptismal entry of Crispin Mennil, which was recorded on the 3rd of April 1786 at Kirbymoorside. The transcription of the document is as follows: "3rd April 1786 — Crispin Mennil, bastard child of Christopher Auder [joiner] and Ann [daughter of Crispin Mennil of Welburn near Castle Howard]. Born 2nd April." North Yorkshire County Record Office; Northallerton, North Yorkshire, UK
Crispin Mennell's Christening Record
Prior to coming across this document, it was always assumed that Crispin's father's sirname was Ander with an "n" (which is of German or Scandinavian extraction), but certainly the possibility exists that it is actually a "u," thus, Auder. Auder is certainly the more English of the two spellings, as the Auder's were a prominent family of Norman ancestry (there are Auders in both France and modern-day England. Ander is less common in Great Britain today. There is an Auder listed in Kathy Lynn Emerson's Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England (1984). See: Jane Auder (Turner)
Mennell Family Web Site:
For more on the Mennell genealogy visit cousin Mona Caldwell's excellent Family Tree Maker page:
Mennell Family Web Site
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