Here comes my two-pennyworth.
This is a well known phenomena in the land of my birth (Wales) where names
were written "as sounded".
Ap Harry (son of Harry) became Parry. Heard (by the English) as a hesitation
(the A sound) and the "p" migrating to form a new word "Parry" (dropping the
"H").
Co
No, it's the little hamlet just down the road, York-With-Outany
;-)
R.
Is that as in Yorke-Withany?
Honor Hill
-Original Message-
From: Richard York [[1]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 3:27 PM
To: NSP group
Subject: [NSP] re-Tune title spelling
Interesting - name s
On 16 Aug 2008, the Red Goblin wrote:
> variation
> usually occurs through verbal propagation - the hearer writing it down
> as they think right and not necessarily correctly.
>I've found several instances, mainly in
> more rural communities, of census enumerators (apparently
> insufficiently
> Interesting - name spelling consistency seems to have been a remarkably
> variable thing anyway until relatively recently. When did it generally
> get standardised, I wonder?
I know nothing of the politics here but if family research has taught me
anything it's to keep an open mind. Just becaus
