Who was SAL Freakes

[Horatiosdau]

I have found a male Christening record in 1772 on IGI for a SAL Freakes of Worplesdon . Can anyone tell me if Sal is an abbreviation or whether that was his name?

[v.wells]

Salvitore? I sounds odd for an English name - perhaps Italian? There are dictionaries of old English names. Have you tried googling "old English first names"?

[Peter Goodey]

I would advise you to look at the original and decide for yourself what you think it says (you ought to do that in any case for the IGI or any other index).

I have seen something that looks like Sal being used for Samuel (badly written Saml?)

[Horatiosdau]

Hi

Thanks for the reply. Samuel would make sense as many in the family seem to have biblical type names. Looks like I will have to make a trip to Surrey Records office in the near future as the entire family is very complicated.

[aussiemaree]

My husband has Freakes/Freak/Frakes from Norwich with biblical names

aussiemaree

[janbooth]

Could perhaps be a shortened form of Salathiel?

Janet