Hello Jenny This is a shorthand way of writing Christiana. The first part are the Greek letters for Christ and then you have ian to end up with Christian. Most women had an a added to make the name feminine so you could just have a man here called Christian but if you are sure it is a woman then it's Christiana. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Joyce" <Jenny.Joyce@Sun.COM> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 2:21 AM Subject: [OEL] Help with name > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to transcribe a will and am stuck with a name. It is a > daughter, and it appears to be "xpan". I have a scan of the section of > the will if needed (if so, where do I send it to? > > Regards > Jenny > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > OLD-ENGLISH Web Page > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ > >