Again not Lincs but worth telling.   I was doing some research for a friend in Tauranga NZ about one of her ancestors who went from "beyond the Pale" to the USA.  His headstone forename was Alex, do you think I could convince her that his given name was actually Elio!!  It was the same with all the family, not only was the surname anglicised but so were all the forenames. Mike

Some names don't travel well.  I had an employee once whose uncle was the first of the family to come to the United States from China.  The family surname got recorded as "Foo", which was the uncle's first name. My step-dad's father came to America from Hungary as a young man, and his first name got Anglicized from Miklos to Nicholos.  I'm told the Anglicized version should have been Michael.  My step dad, named after his father, went by Nicholos all his life.  It wasn't until I got his birth certificate from Cook county, Illinois, that we discovered that his birth name was really Miklos.  That's when he realized why the family had called him "Mickie" all his life and not "Nickie". And I have a cousin who was called by his middle name all his young life because he had the same forename as his father and his family wanted to keep their names separate.  As an adult, he has used his real forename, but he told me it took him years to get used to it.     Lou