Brilliant. Thank you so much, Steve. I have gathered some other 'evidence' to support the notion that the kid baptised in Keymer on 9 April 1749 was John not James (see below). I was going to use these arguments in my tree if I could not resolve the problem. But if you can check the actual record it would be brilliant. i) there is another James born to the family 11 years later, with no record of 'Jas' being buried in the meantime ii) the sfhg transcriber seems to have made another error in transcribing another baptism in this family (Martha/Martin) iii) the name John is often abbreviated to Jno, which could easily be mistaken for Jas if the writing was bad iv) there is a marriage for a John Norman in Keymer twenty years after 1749 but no appropriate baptism for a John Norman in Keymer earlier. None of these factors is sufficient in itself, of course, but taken together they might mean something, especially as the LDS transcriber obviously thought it was meant to be John (Jno) not Jas. Cheers and thank you, Cordelia On 26 February 2015 at 07:26, Steve Selby <grayscroft@gmail.com> wrote: > I am going to The Keep on Friday, so I will look the entry up for you at > East Sussex Record Office. > > Steve Selby > > -----Original Message----- From: Cordelia Hull via > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 8:14 PM > To: Joe Austen > Cc: SFHG SxFamHXGrp > Subject: Re: [SFHG] Was he John or Jas? > > > Yes, I do know that, Joe. That is actually the problem - the frontis site > transcribed whatever is in the actual parish record as JAS (i.e James) > whereas the LDS site transcribed whatever is in the actual parish record as > JOHN. > > What I want to know is . . . . . What name is in the ACTUAL parish record. > :-) > > I am hoping sks will take a look for me next time they are doing their own > research at a Record Office. Can you oblige, or do you live outside Sussex > too? > > Of course, even the original parish record might not be correct - parish > clerks often got it wrong. :-( > > Cheers, Cordelia > > On 25 February 2015 at 23:16, Joe Austen <stenjoe@outlook.com> wrote: > > you are probably aware of this, but in case you don't Jas is an >> abbreviation of James >> >> > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:34:25 +1100 >> > To: sfhg-l@rootsweb.com >> > Subject: [SFHG] Was he John or Jas? >> > From: sfhg@rootsweb.com >> >> > >> > 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 >> >> > ------------------------------- > 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 >