On 10/06/2014 10:12, 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? Burials were usually noted at the time and written up later. They would have been done by the parish clerk or the vicar. I've found John and James used interchangably although they aren't alternatives for each other. It's possible whoever wrote up the burial register wrote John but meant James. Proving that might be a bit more difficult. -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/