[ANSTHRLD] Name Documentation Questions

Ray Smith rayasmith at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 15 20:23:03 PDT 2001


We have a grey area?  I thought that all names (except
for the "mundane real name" exception) had to be
documented to no later than 1600.  Am I mistaken?
What is the rule/guideline on this?

Andrè

--- doug bell <magnus77840 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> May 2001 LoAR Elsbeth said it best.
> An Tir acceptances  Aster Peyton. Name.
> "Submitted as Astor Peyton, the given name was
> documented as a header
> spelling in Reaney and Wilson’s A Dictionary of
> English Surnames. While we
> do register header spellings from this source as
> standard modern forms, the
> header spelling of a surname, as in this case, is
> not necessarily acceptable
> as a given name. We have therefore
> substituted a spelling used as a given name and
> dated by Reaney and Wilson
> to 1642, within our grey area."
>


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