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Posted by SleekDolly (U14126385) on Thursday, 17th November 2011
Please can anyone tell me if Is this John or Junior or something more obscure
It seems to happen quite a lot on FS. Also why would there be no mother's name on a birth/christening - I can understand no father's name but not vice versa.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Sleekdolly
Mt Gt Grandfather and son and his Father were all called Jonathan and often shortened to Jno.
Edna
Thanks for that.
Sleekdolly
The poor mum was only the one who produced the child, so of course she didn't matter !! The baptisms I've been looking at mention the father first, then .....and his wife Mary (or Sarah, or Hannah, or Elizabeth, usually, no surname). Occasionally the vicar forgot to put in the mother's name at all.
If my memory is correct, Jno is short for the Latinised name, Johannes, and also short for Jonathan but never John
See
Jno. John
Never let anyone tell you that this is Jonathan!
Thankyou.
Actually on birth certs. I have noticed that it is often the poor mother who has to make her way to the registrar only a few days after giving birth. Mind you after about 7 children the novelty has worn off for the father !
Sleekdolly
I am getting mixed messages over this one and it is particularly confusing as they has 2 John's born and died, 8 years apart, a Jonathan and then another John who both seemed to survive !
Can't find a Jonathan who married (not essential I know) and on to the 3rd John to see if he could be my GGG Grandfather
Sleekdolly
See
Jno. John
Never let anyone tell you that this is Jonathan! Β
Well someone forgot to tell the enumerators this back in the day as all mine have been called Jno at some stage through the years, but obviously not the person who wrote that.
It made me feel like a liar for a minute there.
Edna
Edna
I shouldn't think all members of the clergy conformed to the same abbreviations at all times - they're still arguing about versions of the Bible today !
You helped me though as I hadn't thought about Jonathan at all
I have now found that the John Chadwick who 3rd time lucky a John who survived married a Hannah Brook in 1785 but can't tell if she was actually the mother of Grace born 1807 in Mirfield, Yorks.
Thanks
Sleekdolly
Ooh, smacked wrist for me, got John and Jonathan the wrong way round, and me a FreeReg transcriber too! It's in the PRs that you get the father's name first and the mother almost an afterthought
With my mob Jno is John
Jnr is junior
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