info needed on Longhallam

new to all this but i am looking for any reference to the name Longhallam.
My gt.gt. grandfather Leo Charles Henry Powell was adopted & his name
previously was Leo Charles Henry Longhallam. Found him in the 1891 & 1901
census where he still has the name Longhallam & was born in Warwickshire,
Birmingham. He must have changed his name between 1901 & when he got married
in 1908. Any help with Longhallam name would be appreciated.

Eve McLaughlin...

I am not sure whether this is relevant or not, but I thought I
recognised something about the name. I wonder if it could have been
slightly misread at any stage? The fact that he is the one and only
instance of the use of this name, as reported, does make one wonder.

I have now checked my folk memory. What I had noted was the baptism, in
Chesham, Bucks, Independent chapel, in 1831 of Henry b Sep 1831, at West
St, Manchester, son of Henry Hallam, grocer, of St John's Place,
Manchester and Sarah Maria, his wife, nee Lowe. 'Henry Hallam did not
join with his wife in the Baptism of the children'.
In 1836 Jane Lowe Hallam, (written as LoweHallam) of the same parents,
was born at West St, Manchester on 13 June 1836 and baptised in Chesham
on 14 August 1836.

Manchester even now is a good three hours fast driving down the
motorwayto Chesham, and what drew Mrs Hallam to bring her babies that
far for baptism is anyone's guess.
I just wondered if Leo Chas Henry was really Lowe Hallam, or if the use
of surname middle names ran in this particular family.

(If anyone has lost a baptism of children of John Stanway Jackson from
Cheshire/Manchester, I can offer that too.)

Charles Ellson...

What should be his year of birth ? Have you looked for a birth index
entry ?

Hugh Watkins...

only 1891 under that spelling

Name: Leo C H Longhallam
Birth: abt 1877 - Birmingham , Warwickshire, England
Residence: 1891 - city, Staffordshire, England

Births Jun 1879
Dunn Leo Charles Aston 6d 412
Births Jun 1880

cheers
paul@morgan240971.fsnet.co.uk

Mike...

There is only the one reference to the name 'Longhallam' in some 200 million
resources and
that is for your Leo.

However I would suggest that his name was probably given to him either from
one or both
of his biological parents, a Long and a Hallam and the surname Hallam is
most predominant in
the midlands area, the University College London also profiles the name
Hallam in the Midlands.

Hallam is also a place in Sheffield, which may have been the place Leo was
from or abandoned
and a child under such circumstances had to be given a name, and it was
quite common for this
name to be after a place of birth or other as suggested.