In a message dated 1/17/03 6:30:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, heatherfig@rogers.com writes: > did you mean 'deed poll' Yes I did mean Deed Poll, sorry I had forgotten that. You have probably heard me ask this before....my grandmother was born Jane Neill but when she married her name was given as Jennie Brockbank also listed that way on my mothers birth certificate (born in Egremont) she was raised by her Aunt Jane & her Uncle John Herbert Brockbank. My brother said she was adopted, but she never told me that (and she told me a lot). The name she used in the here in the US was Jennie Neill Shaw. Her parents came to the US in 1904 leaving her with the couple mentioned above. I just wonder if she was adopted formally, or just used that name. She said they called her Jennie so not to confuse the 2 Janes (her & the aunt). Thanks Jan researching: SHAW, BOADLE, DIXON, NEILL, CONKEY, TOPPING, STEELE, GLENDINNING, MOSSOP, COPELAND - cumbria BROCKBANK, HERBERT, PARKER - cumbria SHEDD, SPEARS, STICKNEY, JEWETT, BURCH, BLOOD, HALL - usa

Saturday, January 18, 2003, 2:54:57 AM, you wrote: Cac> She said they called her Jennie so not to confuse the 2 Janes Cac> (her & the aunt). Jan, Could it have started out as her being called Janie - to distinguish her from Jane - and this evolved to Jennie over time? -- Cheers, Anne mailto:docwras@yahoo.co.uk The Docwra Family Research Project http://resource.at/docwra