Intrigued As to Why Family Name Changed From Braley ; Former Derbeian Ken Tipping, Now Living in the United States, has Been Researching His Family History and Come Up with a Conundrum He Cannot Solve. He Wonders If Any Readers Can Help.

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WHILE looking into the Tipping family history, I discovered that our name mysteriously changed in the mid-1800s and was actually originally Braley and not Tipping.

My paternal great-greatgreat-grandfather was James Braley, who was born in Devon in around 1790.

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Intrigued As to Why Family Name Changed From Braley ; Former Derbeian Ken Tipping, Now Living in the United States, has Been Researching His Family History and Come Up with a Conundrum He Cannot Solve. He Wonders If Any Readers Can Help.

In 1811, James, a travelling workman, married Grace King and, in 1812, they had a son, also James.

We know nothing about the family until James, a si...

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