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Just when everyone gets used to how it works, some spotty “youf” decides they know better and changes it to suit what they think people want!You may be making an unjustified assumption here ...
Respectfully or not, your (presumably underestimated) age-limit is about half my age. But it may also be true that many RootsChatters are above it anyway, so your 'tw' will possibly not be understood by the majorityRespectfully, I'd argue that it would be understood by most people under the age of, lets say, 40.Zaphod: Tw means "trigger warning"A rather dubious warning if it isn't understood ?In other words, 'be warned, sensitive topic'
Zaphod: Tw means "trigger warning"A rather dubious warning if it isn't understood ?
Spelling was very fluid, especially when not everyone could read and write confidently.In simple terms, unless a surname is a dictionary word (such as Carpenter) it will probably exist in various forms. The historical reason is that surnames started in the 14th or 15th century, everyday spelling (dictionaries) wasn't regularised until much later (Dr.Johnson) and only a minority could write for a long time after that. By the time most people had learnt to write, they clung to their own version because they assumed it was the only right one. The variants were mostly invented by clerics filling the BMD registers; if they were given an unfamiliar name they made something up.
A Private baptism was usually done just after the birth as it was thought that the baby may not live. Reasons were not usually given.An ancestor of my wife's, born late in 1835 in a sparse Northumberland parish, was baptised twice : the first by the Primitive Methodists at 10 weeks (so presumably the child was healthy), apparently at her home. A new parish church was in construction nearby, and when it was ready she was baptised 'properly' at just over twelve months.
I've known some couples who, when they marry, the wife double barrels her surname with her husband, but the husband retains his original surname.I've known one of those too. I'm not sure what happened after they separated ....
All the rest could be hearsay ... Apart from his mother of course.
He's taken up the wrong profession. He should have been a doctor with handwriting like thatThere's not much wrong with that signature, many signatures are much more undecipherable !