From: NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk   
      
   Does anyone know if the surname Partingale is one of those delightfully   
   idiosyncratic names that are designed to trap the unwary?  (Like   
   Mainwaring, Cholmondeley, Happisburgh, etc.)   
      
   I came across mention in a Will of someone named as Maria Partingale.  I   
   have found her in a Census as Partingale, but it has been "corrected" by   
   a user to  Portnell.  I have also found the Marriage Register entry   
   where her husband and the vicar have written his surname as Portnell.   
      
   It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that Partingale is correctly   
   pronounced Portnell.   
      
   --   
   Jenny M Benson   
   Wrexham, UK   
      
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