Hi Shirley, I've never known of James and John being used interchangeably - though I've certainly known of errors due to the speaker or writer simply letting their mouth or pen get ahead of their brain and accidentally substituting a similar sounding name. (I do it all the time if I'm not being careful!!!) I'd suspect this was simply a case of the clerk making a plain old garden-variety mistake.! John ----- Original Message ----- From: "S. Olfert" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 4:58 AM Subject: [ NB ] Deeds - 2 different given names ?? > Hi List, > > I have a 1795 Deed with 2 different given names recorded on the document - > which, of course, has led to a lot of confusion and speculation.It has > "James Guiggy" in the title of the document but then "John Guiggy" > is written in the record, itself. > I had heard that the James>John were sometimes back then used > interchangeably but I've never seen it before. > Any thoughts?? > > Shirley > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List Announcements can be found at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcharlo/nblistann.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >