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A regiment (possibly dragoons) recruited in the Sherborne area in late 1775 and was stationed at York the following year. Which was it please?

There are two records on this baptismal list which have given me grief for years;
i.e.June 13 1777Baptised John Luffman* base son of Betty Metyard

    July 6 John son of Betty Meechard (base born)

  * The surname Lufman though readily legible had been scored through, the archivist told me that this was a device used when the clergyman though they knew the father's identity.

 My direct question is In view of the non standardisation of soelling at this time are Betty Metyard and Betty Meechard the same person? If so, why either baptise the boy twice, or give two sons the same forename?
This has been a problem to me for over twenty years, and I would like to resolve it if at all possible.

Up to around 3 years ago I was in touch on this panel with K Limby in Sydney Australia who was a grandson of great grandson of my great Aunt Elizabeth Benstead nee Ayres of Cambridge. Her parents were James Ayres (1844-1924) and ily Cornwell (1850-1941).
I list contact with K suddenly around 3 years ago. Does anyone know what happened please?

I am not sure if this is the right thread for this posting. It concerns two men from the Boston area.
I was told by my late mother in law who though from Doncaster had strong Boston connections about a deserter whose family lived in cottage on London Road north (towards Boston) of Tytton Lane West, and who laid low for many years and only came out in dark hours.
The other was a man named Alfie Martin who lived on Wyberton West Road, in the block on the South Forty Foot Bank between the junction of Park Road and what became the Lovelace shellfish factory.
Alfie who I once saw when going to work around 4am for a special job, lived with his mother who was a contemporary and friend of my grandmother, born 1870-1880. She died sometime in the 1950s.
The story as I have it was that Alfie was a WW1 veteran who was completely traumatised to the extent that when he came home he could never work, and had a very limited life style, and only appeared in the Wyberton West Road area in the early hours. He was well known to all the local railway shift workers, but beyond that seems to have had little contact. I would like to know what became of him, and any further imformation on the alleged deserter from Tytton Lane.