Cordelia, you really need to see the originals & hope the writer was on the ball. I've seen many abbreviated - Jos, Jno, Jas? often just put in as James or John when in fact it may have been Joseph or Josiah , Joshua.Don't believe all that is transcribed, sometimes it is a hard task. Wendy On Wednesday, 25 February 2015, 16:11, Cordelia Hull via <sfhg@rootsweb.com> wrote: I am trying to discover the given name of a child baptised at Keymer on 9 April 1749.  His parents were William and Ann Norman. LDS records (familysearch.org) say he was called John, and he is listed as such on Ancestry.com (which takes its data from the LDS site anyway). But on the frontis database (baptisms for St Damian and St Cosmos, Keymer) he is listed as Jas, not John. I'm looking for a possible baptism of the John Norman who married Mary Hayward in Keymer on 29 Apr 1769, but I don't want to consider this 1749 baptism if it belongs to a James not a John. I live in Oz so cannot go to Record Office to check. Can anyone help please? Cordelia 14526 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message