Family history research has also led us to hunt out many versions of the
same sound but different spellings, if you have someone who cannot read or
write they have no idea how its spelled and also taking accents into account
it must be quite hard. Our name gets written with an i, or an a rather
than u in it so these things can happen easily.
I have a bobbin my sister decorated for me several years ago with info about
my parents, the one for my dad has musical notes on, as he had a band, the
one for my Mum has 6 initials on it, one for each of her 6 children. I
wonder if there will be a Jeri in the future wondering what it might mean,
<grin>.
Just to point out that Hide isn't really a mis-spelling of Hyde, it's a
phonetic spelling.
When it is possible that neither the bobbin maker or lacemaker would have
reached 21st century requirements for literacy (and let's face it, that
level
isn't very high) then Hide is perfectly acceptable.
Even in the Parish records, where would assume the parish clerk would most
likely be fairly well educated, the spellings change according to what the
name was heard as. If the person registering the event couldn't read,
they
weren't in a position to say. I have this all the time as my surname is
Tinch - quite unusual. It gets written as Linch, Pinch or Finch. NO,
Teeee for
Tango.
Jacquie in Licolnshire
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