« Reply #3 on: Saturday 08 July 17 18:33 BST (UK) »
Very interesting indeed.
But I do wonder with regards to 'Muffert' especially; if it is more likely to be a corruption of another name such as Muckhart or Moffat? Given the time period in which these hospital records appear the more variations of names you see across all forms of documents. These variations become less frequent as time goes on and it could look like a name has disappeared when it hasn't, just spelt differently.
I'll give an example of a name in my tree; 'Sheret'. There are so many variations of this name. Shiret is one of these variations.
On SP in the OPR records there are 21 births/baptisms, 4 deaths and 15 marriages of people with the name spelt as 'Shiret'. Under the statutory records there is 1 birth, 1 death and 4 marriages appear. This indicates that the spelling of the name has altered over time and becomes more 'standardised'. Perhaps this could be what's happened here with the 'Mufferts'?
As for the name Bleber, I'm not entirely sure what that could be a variation of if, indeed it is a variation.
Jill
mtDNA subclade K1b2b. Father's Y-DNA I-S25383
GEDmatch kit; CF7867455
Father's kit; RY1336515
Mother's kit; AF2312865
Kincardineshire
Sheret, Hosie, Valentine, Crow, Beattie, McArthur, Wyllie.
Angus (Forfarshire)
Adam, Valentine, Ewan, Elder, Guild, Kydd, Bradford, Stronner, Gibson, Cloudsley, Evans, Stewart, Stott.
Perthshire
Small, Robertson, Murray, Kennedy, McGregor
Ross & Cromarty
Cameron, Stewart, Grant
Banffshire - Gamrie
Anderson, Massie