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First Names & Abbreviations |
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Old documents contain lots of names which are shortened, or ones which are no longer in use.
(This is not a definitive total list.)
| In the register |
Modern form |
Notes |
| Ames |
Ames |
(an old name no longer in use) |
| Avice |
Avice |
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| Avis |
Avice |
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| Chas. |
Charles |
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| Elenor |
Eleanor |
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| Elisabeth |
Elizabeth |
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| Eliz |
Elizabeth |
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| Eliza. |
Elizabeth |
note punctuation |
| Eliza: |
Elizabeth |
note punctuation |
| Eliza |
Eliza |
note lack of punctuation (literally Eliza) |
| Ellenor |
Eleanor |
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| Ellinor |
Eleanor |
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| Fanny |
Fanny |
as written |
| Geo. |
George |
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| Gul. |
William |
short for Latin Gulielmus |
| Guliel |
William |
short for Latin Gulielmus |
| Han. |
Hannah |
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| Hanna |
Hannah |
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| Hannah |
Hannah |
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| Hen. |
Henry |
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| Hy. |
Henry |
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| Ioh |
John |
I = J, so Ioh. = Joh. |
| Jac. |
James |
Latin Jacobus |
| Jacob |
Jacob |
as written |
| Jacobus |
James |
Latin Jacobus |
| Jas. |
James |
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| Jas(s) |
James |
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| Jer. |
Jeremiah |
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| Joh. |
John |
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| Jo. |
John |
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| Jone |
Joan |
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| Jon. |
Jonathan |
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| Jon(a) |
Jonathan |
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| Jos. |
Joseph |
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| Josh. |
Joshua |
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| Jos(h) |
Josiah |
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| Marg. |
Margaret |
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| Mich |
Michael |
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| Mic(is) |
Michael |
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| Nich. |
Nicholas |
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| Nic(s) |
Nicholas |
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| Ric. |
Richard |
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| Rich. |
Richard |
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| Sar. |
Sarah |
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| Theo. |
Theodore |
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| Tho. |
Thomas |
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| Thos. |
Thomas |
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| Zach. |
Zacharius |
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