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From: Rod Neep <>
Subject: Re: first names
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 02:55:06 +0100


In article <>, Educar <> writes
>can any knowledgable soul tell me where these first names come from? what
>country are they likely to be from?
>
>Edvardi
>Johannes
>Gervasii
>Gervase
>Wyllm
>Bridgytt

All of them good old English names ;-)
... how they were written in the older church registers.

Cheers
Rod
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Rod Neep : Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England:
: http://www.neep.demon.co.uk/fhist/
RESEARCHING: NEEP (ONS all periods & places) GOONS 2913
Notts: MILLS (1800), SARDISON (1720), DENMAN (1750), WRIGHT (1780),
JOHNSON (1700), SAVAGE (1900), DYKES (1900), CLAYTON (1850)
Oxon : HOWES (1880); Norfolk: HAW(E)S (1850); Essex: TAYLOR (1855)
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