Can someone please tell me if it was common for Sarah to be used as a boy's name. I have a note of a baptism in a Somerset parish register  which I am sure I copied correctly and it reads - Sarah (son) Cuff,  son of William and Jane 1793. Janet

Hi Janet, I have seen a number of female names recorded as 'son of' and male names as 'daughter of' in my FreeREG transcribing. Some of them (very few though) have a note to say the clerk made an error and the name should be something else. These are names that have never been usually associated with the other gender, unlike names such as Basil, Christian, Denis etc. I transcribe these entries as they appear, with a Note to confirm this is as the register states, because there is no knowing whether the error is in the name or the gender given. Yvonne Scrivener Canberra ACT Australia -----Original Message----- From: bristol_and_district-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bristol_and_district-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janet Cuff Can someone please tell me if it was common for Sarah to be used as a boy's name. I have a note of a baptism in a Somerset parish register  which I am sure I copied correctly and it reads - Sarah (son) Cuff,  son of William and Jane 1793.