As you can probably well imagine this altering of names has occurred
very frequently with immigrants whose names seemed quite
unintelligible to the immigration authorities. A good friend told us
the other day that his father and his 2 uncles (father's brothers)
all arrived in
On 16 Aug 2008, the Red Goblin wrote:
variation
usually occurs through verbal propagation - the hearer writing it down
as they think right and not necessarily correctly.
I've found several instances, mainly in
more rural communities, of census enumerators (apparently
insufficiently
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Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 9:18 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: re-Tune title spelling
Interesting - name spelling consistency seems to have been a remarkably
variable thing anyway until relatively recently. When did it generally
get standardised, I wonder?
I know nothing
