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From: "richardson" <>
Subject: Spelling of Name Re: [BS-L] Family Pedigree
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:03:07 -0400
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My great grandmother's name is Lavina Dora Ann, this I know, because of
family members passing the information down, and the other family members
shown in the census, dates, etc. But I have seen her referred to as:
Lavina D., Dora Ann, "Darien", and Dory.

Ellor

> > 1600's. I have encountered some families with various spellings of the
> > name.
> > One family has the spelling Eade, Ede, Eede, and Eads, even Head all in
the
> > same family. Each of the children had a different spelling. My guess is
> > that
> > whoever recorded the birth spelled it the way it sounded

> unproven, is that even literate Britons of the day had horrible
handwriting.
> One would think that this is a bad thing for a scribe, but in truth it
might
> have been what amounted to job security...nobody is going to get rid of a
> scribe if nobody else can read their handwriting>
> Calvin B. Littlefield, IBSSG

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