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 >
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