I know what you mean Redroger. On a census I was looking at for oh relatives the writing was so bad that you could not tell whether it was a d or a b.
I know this is going off topic slightly, and I hope no-one minds, but in my oh family he has the name Tickle , they had loads of little Tickles; and the other one is Davis.
Davis ' first name was Job, he and his wife had several children, one which they named Job David Davies, he married and had a son whom he called Job David Davies, he married and had a son whom I could not work out whether his second name was David or Bob. Came up with Bob a Job. How cruel can parents be.
marcie