Thank you all for the responses. Re Isabella (var) and Elizabeth, I have found in my travels through records that many names are variants of others bu that does not deter parents from naming several of their own children each of these variants. The worst in my experience is the Jane/Jean/Janet/Jessie which can turn up for different members of the one family, or for the one member at various times in her life. I have one very difficult one where we cannot identify whether a branch is descended from one of two children, one of whom died as a child, but from other certificates we cannot identify which one died. All ages on BDMs are discrepant. Anne Maye.