On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 1:47:36 AM UTC+1, 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? Yes. Matilda is the latinised version of the English Maud.