Jonathan was the son of King Saul who was the first king of Israel which was many years before John the Apostle. I'm not doing religion or argueing...just wanted to point that out that the name had been around for a long time. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemary Shields" <rsk70@hotmail.com> To: <MARKHAM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 9:20 PM Subject: Fwd: Re: [MARKHAM] Abbreviations of Given Names > I have seen the Jno hundreds of times used for the name John. > > The name John was not derived from Jonathan. What about St. John one of the > original apostles? That was long before the name Jonathan was ever > imagined. > > Ronnie > > > >From: "John Nagle" <John.W.Nagle@worldnet.att.net> > >Reply-To: MARKHAM-L@rootsweb.com > >To: MARKHAM-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [MARKHAM] Abbreviations of Given Names > >Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:54:29 -0800 > > > >I have often seen John, spelled John, which is of course a derivative of > >Jonathan. > > > >John > > > > > >==== MARKHAM Mailing List ==== > >Visit Rootsweb's Resource page for MARKHAM > >http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/m/a/MARKHAM/ > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > > ==== MARKHAM Mailing List ==== > Markham Associated Webpage: > http://home.earthlink.net/~tawnyg > >

Old Style Abbreviations - Proper Names ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- http://www.firstct.com/fv/x-prop.html It looks like Jno for John and Jonathan. The end I hope. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Marcum" <kmarcum@setel.com> To: <MARKHAM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Re: [MARKHAM] Abbreviations of Given Names > Jonathan was the son of King Saul who was the first king of Israel which was > many years before John the Apostle. I'm not doing religion or > argueing...just wanted to point that out that the name had been around for a > long time. > Karen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rosemary Shields" <rsk70@hotmail.com> > To: <MARKHAM-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 9:20 PM > Subject: Fwd: Re: [MARKHAM] Abbreviations of Given Names > > > > I have seen the Jno hundreds of times used for the name John. > > > > The name John was not derived from Jonathan. What about St. John one of > the > > original apostles? That was long before the name Jonathan was ever > > imagined. > > > > Ronnie > > > > > > >From: "John Nagle" <John.W.Nagle@worldnet.att.net> > > >Reply-To: MARKHAM-L@rootsweb.com > > >To: MARKHAM-L@rootsweb.com > > >Subject: Re: [MARKHAM] Abbreviations of Given Names > > >Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:54:29 -0800 > > > > > >I have often seen John, spelled John, which is of course a derivative of > > >Jonathan. > > > > > >John > > > > > > > > >==== MARKHAM Mailing List ==== > > >Visit Rootsweb's Resource page for MARKHAM > > >http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/m/a/MARKHAM/ > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > _________ > > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : > http://explorer.msn.com > > > > > > ==== MARKHAM Mailing List ==== > > Markham Associated Webpage: > > http://home.earthlink.net/~tawnyg > > > > > > > ==== MARKHAM Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe, send a message to MARKHAM-L-request@rootsweb.com with the one word, unsubscribe, in the BODY of the message. > If you are subscribed to the digest, send your unsubscribe message to MARKHAM-D-request@rootsweb.com