On 10/06/2014 10:12 AM, Robert MACQUEEN wrote: > Hello > I have found the image for Westminster burials records on Findmypast and wonder who compiled these? were they written at the time of burial. > I am asking as my GGGGranfathers brother James MACQUEEN is shown as John MACQUEEN in the record. > I had previously found a transcription on Ancestry and assumed it was a transcription mistake but now I see that it is incorrect in the written record. > Could it be a transcription mistake then - 1830 - or could he have been known as John? > Thank you Bob > . > ************************************** Thanks for the confirmation provided by the memorial stone - I assume the dates tally with the register. I suspect that in any rough notes, Jno. would be used for John, Jas. for James, and it is easy then to see how the two names may be confused in writing up later, especially if someone else is transcribing the rough note into the register. Regards, John Henley

On 10/06/2014 10:12 AM, Robert MACQUEEN wrote: > > Hello > > I have found the image for Westminster burials records on Findmypast and wonder who compiled these? were they written at the time of burial. > > I am asking as my GGGGranfathers brother James MACQUEEN is shown as John MACQUEEN in the record. > > I had previously found a transcription on Ancestry and assumed it was a transcription mistake The usual thing was for the parish clerk to keep a rough notebook with details of events, which he then copied up at the end of the week (towns) or ut month/quarter (villages). If he scribbled down J McQueen, when he came to do the fair copy, his memory might have been faulty. Or he didn't all that much care as long as he got something down). EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society