Sivyer and Goodsell Christian Names

For those doing family research having the same name used multiple times across different generations can be cause a few headaches. The cross checking of birth and death dates plus parent names is required as well. Names such Frederick, Frederick James, Elizabeth, Harriet, Spencer, Henry, Joseph, Stephen, Catherine, James, and Frederick John and many more appear in combinations and as individual names.

Also the use of Sivyer as a middle christian name or the mothers family maiden name is also used as in Eva Ethel Coram Sivyer. 

Then we have the multiple christian names as in James Spencer Alexander and Archie Ernest William Carvasso Sivyer born to Spencer Sivyer. Which Spencer Sivyer you may ask? Well that is where the reader has to do the research. Spencer Sivyer b:1833 who married Elizabeth Hogg Bathgate.

Moving back in the generations of Sivyer christian names (1600 - 1750) it is more a single name and more of the simplistic common name. In the men names such as John, Stephen, George, James, William David, Samuel, Henry and Thomas. For the women there are names such as Elizabeth, Harriet, Sarah Ann, Sophia, Ellen, Jane, Caroline, Mary Ann, Hannah, Martha and Rebecca.

One of the more unusual is the name Sivyer used a first christian name in the person SIvyer Rootes. Now this is unusual and it has been very difficult to connect where the marriage took place of a Sivyer and a Roote but the family name Playford is connected. The common factor in all of these names moving back into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is that they came from the Sussex area and were Wesleyan Methodist. When emigration occurred they were all around the Camden and Picton areas. 

Cootamundra Herald (NSW : 1877 - 1954), Tuesday 29 May 1951, page 2

DEATH OF FORMER POLICE SUPT.

The death occurred at Lewisham Private Hospital of Sivyer John Rootes, ex-superintendent of police, of 87 Fox street, Wagga, at the age of 92 years. He was born on October 27, 1858 at Cobbitty, near Camden. At the age of 20, Mr. Rootes joined

the N.S.W. Police Force. He was first stationed at Adelong, arriving there two days after the Kelly gang shot the police. For the following four months he was engaged in pursuit of the Kelly gang. From Adelong he was sent to Jugiong, and from there to Urana. While in charge of that district, he distinguished himself in the handling of the Brookong Riot. After 13 years' service in charge of the Tumut district he was promoted to inspector at Wilcannia. He remained there for two years and was then

placed in charge of the Gundagai sub-district. , In May, 1914, Mr. Rootes was promoted to Deniliquin as superintendent in charge of the South Western district. Four years later he retired. He was presented, with the King's Medal for meritorious service. On his retirement, he settled in Wagga. Always interested in land and stock, he bought a small property and engaged in dealing and cattle raising. He is survived by two sisters Jane (Mrs. Moore, of Enfield,) and Amy (Wagga). The funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon. The cortege will leave St. John's Church of England, after a service to start at 2 o'clock, for the Wagga cemetery.