Hello Jean, Many thanks for your message and I appreciate your help. I really am full of chagrin for I really should have known the answer but now I am that much the wiser. I never took Latin at school and did not need it as a mechanical engineer. Nevertheless I should have recognised it as such. However, as it says in the book of Proverbs, which I remember from my college days quoted on the flyleaf of a textbook on calculus "Give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser." Thanks again. Regards, John Green. 9502 in Ontario Canada. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Seaton" <wkseaton@shaw.ca> To: "'John Green'" <jandagreen@sympatico.ca> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 3:43 PM Subject: RE: [SFHG] Transcriptions > > > > > > > Actually, the two here are the same, since Gulielmus is just "William" in > Latin, and many 17th century clergymen made their entries in Latin. > > Jean Seaton > > -----Original Message----- > From: sfhg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:sfhg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf > Of John Green > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 5:23 PM > To: SFHG LIST > Subject: [SFHG] Transcriptions > > Hello Everyone, > Strangely, following the recent discussion regarding the transcription > of records I have, only in the last few days of my research, encountered > different transcriptions for the same event and would appreciate comments > on > the following. > This concerns the marriage of one of my 5th Great Grandfathers. The entry > as > transcribed in the SMI reads: > > Date: 25 May 1691 > Forename: William > Surname: Page > Spouse Forename Elizabeth > Spouse Surname Mocket > Parish/County Arlington, East Sussex > > The IGI extraction Batch No. M037701, Source call No. 0416351 reads as > follows: > > GULIELMUS PAGE Male > Marriages: > Spouse: Elizabetha Mocket > Marriage: 25 May 1691 Arlington, Sussex, England > > They were presumably transcribed from exactly the same record. That being > the case why are they different.? They cannot both be right.! If anyone > has > access to the actual parish register I would be interested to know what it > actually reads. > Some words of wisdom please for I know that many of you have vastly more > experience than do I, a beginner by comparison. > This raises another question where does the name > Gulielmus originate from, is it Spanish or Italian for the name William > and > are there any records giving information when such families came into > Sussex.? > Kind regards, John Green, 9502 in Ontario, Canada. > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > >