Hi Yvette, >> anyone who can assist in explaining how the name variants came about. >> Bear in mind Yvette that illiteracy was commonplace in the early and mid 19th Centuries. Therefore, names on documents were written down as heard and the people concerned wouldn't know whether the name was spelt rightly or wrongly. I have an Ancestor named ELIZA FLEAR whose name, on her son's birth certificate, was written as FLARE (you can almost hear the accent can't you). As she was herself unable to read or write she simply didn't realise that the Registrar had spelt her name wrongly. Best wishes, Tony. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Yvette MUIR" <ymuir1706@rogers.com> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 3:39 PM To: "Andrew" <morgjeff@alphalink.com.au>; <dumfries-galloway@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Jeffrey/Jaffrey > If went to N.S.W. go to www.bdm.nsw.gov.au Otherwise suggest you ask > for > help on the mailing list for Australia as, for the other states you might > need to buy a CD. However, many on the list are willing to look things up. > > Yvette > > From: "Andrew" <morgjeff@alphalink.com.au> > To: <dumfries-galloway@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 8:39 AM > Subject: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Jeffrey/Jaffrey > > >> Hello, >> I am wanting to make contact with any Jeffrey / Jaffrey relatives >> from Dumfrieshire or anyone who can assist in explaining how the name >> variants came about. This is an abridged version of a longer message >> posted recently. >> >> My gg grandfather John b 1841 in Middlebie as Jeffrey and emigrated to >> Australia in 1862, but have been unable to locate where he died, even >> though I can account for all his wife and children. >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message