joe2phil@drizzle.com wrote: >[...]Abbreviation "Jno." \ at least 1000 hits you will see , Spend some time >reading the subject matter , As I said it is John [...] Having been indulging in a little post-Christmas paper sorting, I happen at this very moment to hold in my hands a photograph of an 18C church bell, which has the names of the donors. The two visible are JNo: SHAW and JNo: VARDEN where the o of JNo is superscript. Both these men are said to have been John, and the second certainly was John in baptismal entry, will etc.