I have a number of Janets in my family line. However the same one can be recorded as Janet in one document and then Jane in another. I always go to the originals not the transcripts. I simply regard them as the same name. Perhaps it was a case of "plain Jane" or "fancy Janet" ? Neil Perth, Aus On 25 Mar 2010 at 18:21, S R Walker wrote: > > Various agencies transcribe the entry as "Janet," and some of you agree that > this is the name, but I have personally examined a photocopy of the parish > record, which is ambiguous at best, but I am thinking the name is actually > Jane. > *I a^m cl24ng my k*ey9b0$rd
And Jean and Jennet. Judy On 26 Mar 2010, at 01:05, nnorth@iinet.net.au wrote: > I have a number of Janets in my family line. However the same one can > be recorded as Janet in one document and then Jane in another. I > always go to the originals not the transcripts. I simply regard them > as the same name. Perhaps it was a case of "plain Jane" or "fancy > Janet" ? > Neil > Perth, Aus > > On 25 Mar 2010 at 18:21, S R Walker wrote: > >> >> Various agencies transcribe the entry as "Janet," and some of you >> agree that >> this is the name, but I have personally examined a photocopy of >> the parish >> record, which is ambiguous at best, but I am thinking the name is >> actually >> Jane. >> > > *I a^m cl24ng my k*ey9b0$rd > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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
Hi I think it is a mistake by the session clerk or the minister ...whoever was filling in the register. I think he wrote Janet and then remembered it was Jane and changed it. Registers were filled some time after the ceremony .... notes were kept on pieces of paper and then transferred into the register.The crunch is the Jane and Janet both in the 1841 census and therefore alive at the same time. Families in the south of Scotland did not normally have two children with the same name alive at the same time. (that does not apply in the highlands and island) Irene