On 17/05/2017 10:47 AM, Chris Hampson wrote: > In Walter Chetwynd's History of Pirehill Hundred, the primary text says that both a father and son married women named Maud (with details of their fathers). In parallel with this is the text from a earlier book where these two women are named Matilda (same fathers are named). Clearly the same people, but was it normal for Maud to be Matilda, or vice versa? Matilda is one (of many) Latinised forms of the compound Germanic name Mahthild - Maud is one (of several) English forms of the same name, or rather of the first element of the Germanic name. Peter Stewart