Just as matter of interest, back in the 1950's my mother managed to locate some members of her family in Southampton County, VA where her branch of the Jameses had lived since before that county was formed from Isle of Wight County about in the 1740's. She found an old man in his eighties (remember this was in the 1950's)who said that when he was a child, the name James was pronounced something like "Jims" there in that part of VA. This matter of variant ways of spelling the name is interesting to me. Boice Burns