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From: Graeme Wall <>
Subject: Re: Speke Birth 1862
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 08:56:53 +0100
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In message <>
Charani <> wrote:

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>
> Again from my experience, I've had children registered and baptised with
> given names one way round and the marriage and/or death certificates
> showing the names the other way round. C.Rihan may be correct is
> suggesting that your man started off as Henry William (for whatever
> reason), was known as William and had become William Henry by the time he
> married and was thereafter known as that.

Just come across an example of that, I've been trying to trace a Dorcas Emma
Adkin, nee Kenrick, for ages, especially her marriage, without much luck,
only to discover that on her marriage certificate she is Emma Dorcas! To her
descendants she was always the former.

--
Graeme Wall

My genealogy website:
<http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/index.html>;

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