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Title: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: Kennington on Wednesday 19 January 05 13:04 GMT (UK)
Can anyone tell me what the abbreviation
Jno stands for in censuses I have read ??

Thanks Mary
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: suey on Wednesday 19 January 05 13:10 GMT (UK)

Hi Mary - it's John........
                                 
                   :-\ unless he's one of mine of course, I have a John James, transcribed in 1901 as Gas Gas but he was only ever called Jack!
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: casalguidi on Wednesday 19 January 05 13:11 GMT (UK)
Jonothan?

Casalguidi
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: Steve Ley on Wednesday 19 January 05 16:21 GMT (UK)
Yes, It is Jonothan.


Steve.
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: twink on Wednesday 19 January 05 16:23 GMT (UK)
I thought it was John, not Jonathan....  might be wrong but I think I read something along those lines somewhere.
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: Steve Ley on Wednesday 19 January 05 16:37 GMT (UK)
I thought i would double check and i may be wrong  ::)

Check this link

http://freereg.rootsweb.com/howto/realnames.htm


Steve.
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: Nick Carver on Wednesday 19 January 05 19:08 GMT (UK)
Definitely John. Just one of the very common abbreviations that were not intuitive - see Alfres, short for Alfred though quite why is beyond me. The other common ones are Jas, Jos, Wm, Geo. I'm not aware of the same thing being quite so common amongst the female side of the population - Elizabeth is about the only name I've ever seen.
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: Welsh Jen on Wednesday 19 January 05 22:51 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Kennington on Wednesday 19 January 05 13:04 GMT (UK)
Can anyone tell me what the abbreviation
Jno stands for in censuses I have read ??

Thanks Mary

I maybe wrong but I always thought it stood for Junior

but John is correct just viewed this: http://www.nationalarchivist.com/index01/nameAbbr.cfm
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: Nick Carver on Thursday 20 January 05 08:10 GMT (UK)
If Junior is used to denote the child of someone with the same name, it tends to be abbreviated jn or jun or jr but always in lower case.
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: Vicci Gates on Wednesday 25 March 20 19:41 GMT (UK)
Came across this.
http://www.genealogyintime.com/dictionaries/list-of-first-name-abbreviations.html
Hope it helps people. 😁
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: philipsearching on Wednesday 25 March 20 21:17 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Nick Carver on Wednesday 19 January 05 19:08 GMT (UK)
Definitely John. Just one of the very common abbreviations that were not intuitive - see Alfres, short for Alfred though quite why is beyond me. The other common ones are Jas, Jos, Wm, Geo. I'm not aware of the same thing being quite so common amongst the female side of the population - Elizabeth is about the only name I've ever seen.

And Margt
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: Treetotal on Wednesday 25 March 20 22:34 GMT (UK)
I also believed it to be Jonathan.
Carol
Title: Re: What does name Jno mean ?
Post by: Ruskie on Wednesday 25 March 20 22:59 GMT (UK)
This is something that pops up periodically, and opinion is often divided between a John and Jonathan.
I imagine that the OP has sorted it out since she asked the question 15 years ago.  ;D