On 02/01/2016 12:06, SBrainstev via wrote: > It may not have been the fault if local priest..... just think how > local accents may well have distorted the name in the mouths of the > happy couple! > > I certainly have Messam ancestors, who with a thick west country > accent, are recorded as Meursum, Merzum and even Mason! > > Steve > One of my Gt Grandfathers was named Horace, but on his BC it stated "Orace." Presumably his mother dropped her aitches! -- Jenny M Benson