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JimboR
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Does anyone know the origin of the christian name Xenophon. It appears in each generation of the 19th century Smith line I'm researching. Would the shortened version be Ino??
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Jim
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JimboR
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Thanks Trystan
Very interesting. Two names that have got the family stumped as to why they were used.
The odd thing about the name Ino though is in the 1871 census for Aldeburgh Ino Smith is noted as being a son. Mmmmm.
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Jim
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JimboR
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Mmmm. Definately needs further investigation.
Jim
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Hackstaple
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Ino in Suffolk 1871 - quite a few and all of them are male  they are all clustered around Aldeburgh so one might conclude that the name is of very local origin
Name Age in 1871 Birthplace Relationship Civil Parish County/Island .
Ino Baldry 32 Brook, Norfolk, England Head Aldeburgh Suffolk
Ino Baldry 8 St Margaret Son Aldeburgh Suffolk
Ino Block 4 Aldborough Son Aldeburgh Suffolk
Ino Cully 50 Norwich, Norfolk, England Head Aldeburgh Suffolk
Ino Josephs 29 Knoddishall, Suffolk, England Head Aldeburgh Suffolk
Ino Lenington 4 Aldborough Son Aldeburgh Suffolk
Ino Louis 3 months Aldborough Son Aldeburgh Suffolk
Ino Smith 18 Kelsale Servant Aldeburgh Suffolk
Ino Spaid 27 Yarmouth, Norfolk, England Head Aldeburgh Suffolk
Ino Taylor 63 Wickham Market Lodger Aldeburgh Suffolk
Ino Ward 55 Aldborough, Suffolk, England Lodger Aldeburgh Suffolk
Ino James Ward 20 Saxmundham Servant Aldeburgh Suffolk
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa. Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Hackstaple
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Xenophon in Suffolk - freeBMD lists only 2 of them.
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa. Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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JimboR
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Out of curiosity while searching for births in FamilySearch this evening I typed in Ino Smith, the return was a very long list of John Smiths. I then went to another site typed in the same and again a very long list of John Smiths. So, for some reason Ino is a nickname for John 
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JimboR
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Good grief
It would appear that the census I first found Ino in had been wrongly transcribed it should have been Jno, which, according to this site - http://freereg.rootsweb.com/howto/realnames - is an abbreviation of John. Wouldn't the Enumerator been just as quick to have written John 
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JimboR
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Yeah, John.
Jim
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