Hi Marg Just an observation but the name you use or are normally known as, is your legal name In my experience the majority use the name they were registered with on official documents, census, marriage etc but often use a different name, variation or abbreviation in every day life Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 22/11/2012 19:23, Margaret Cambridge wrote: > Very interesting Hilda. > So as I see it a Saints name is a legal name so would be used on legal > documents such as a marriage document. > I have a Charlotte Poole baptised COI, then baptised again a little over a > month later in the RC church as Maria Charlotte. She is recorded as > Charlotte 2 1/2 years later on her burial so I imagine Charlotte is the name > she used. > > > Marg