Hello, I am familiar -- from my German genealogy -- with women who had two or more given names and used them alternately in different records. My favorite example is Anna Margretha Groth who married John Nicholas Luehr. She was called Anna in some records, Margretha in others, but I finally confirmed these references were all to the same woman, my 2nd great-grandmother.   My question is whether that same situation occurred with women in Shropshire in the 18th and 19th centuries. I have a specific puzzle that I am trying to solve.   Thomas Ebrey married Isabella Gilchrist, daughter of John Gilchrist and Mary Challinar, on 31 Dec 1795 in Prees as shown on an IGI record and my own look at Shropshire microfilm. A number of their children have IGI records for baptisms showing Thomas Ebrey and Isabel or Isabella as parents.   But an apparent son John Gilchrist Ebrey -- seemingly named for his maternal grandfather -- has an IGI record showing his parents as Thomas Ebrey and Eliz. John is known to be the brother of Robert Ebrey, whose parents are shown as Thomas Ebrey and Isabelle, based on John's daughter Jane appearing in the 1861 census as niece to Robert Ebrey, for whom she was keeping house.   There is no IGI record for a marriage of a Thomas Ebrey and Elizabeth in Prees at the right time. Could the Eliz. and Elizabeth entries be errors or alternate given names?   Any and all thoughts are welcome. Thank you.   Barbara Researching Booth, Challinar, Ebrey, Lawton, Palin / Paling, Roden surnames