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Offline JimboR

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Re: Christian Name Origin
« Reply #9 on: Friday 21 January 05 23:18 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: Christian Name Origin
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 22 January 05 00:01 GMT (UK) »
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  ???

Jim

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Re: Christian Name Origin
« Reply #11 on: Monday 31 January 05 13:14 GMT (UK) »
Jim,

Phew after all that - he was John  ;D  ;D

Trystan  :)
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Re: Christian Name Origin
« Reply #12 on: Monday 31 January 05 22:50 GMT (UK) »
Yeah, John. ::)

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