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From: "John Brown" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Re: 1901
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 13:27:49 +0100
References: <fAqhGPAqT6d9Ewmx@varneys.demon.co.uk>


"Eve McLaughlin" <> wrote :


<snip>
>Yess, some of these entries I altered di give the second name as
>surname, if the 'do' was small - or even if it wasn't. This means
there >will be plenty of unaltered ones.

One of mine, found mostly by luck, munged the middle and surnames of the
husband to create a new and unique name for a couple - Malcolm Stewart
Thorburn and Margaret Whitley Thorburn emerged as Malcolm and Margaret
MIORTEIME. Admittedly the particular script is hard to read, but I
reckon this is the most brilliantly disguised transcription yet !

John B
Leicestershire.


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