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Post by Adam in Stroud on May 19, 2020 13:02:53 GMT
The one that always gets me is "Jno." meaning John. Why? Yes! That too.
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Post by neilm on May 19, 2020 17:50:34 GMT
I wonder when when the practice of writing Chas. and Wm. etc dropped out. Does anyone know what Hy. was a contraction of? It hasn't "dropped out". People still do write abbreviations like Wm. or Chas. or Thos. etc Do they? What recent examples have you got? I've been known to use 'inst.', partly to keep it alive and partly because I'm that sort of chap, but I've not seen contracted names- apart from on, say, butchers vans and signs on shops owned by the same family for generations- in regular or even occasional use in my lifetime.
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Post by lbarnes on May 19, 2020 17:54:33 GMT
It hasn't "dropped out". People still do write abbreviations like Wm. or Chas. or Thos. etc Do they? What recent examples have you got? I've been known to use 'inst.', partly to keep it alive and partly because I'm that sort of chap, but I've not seen contracted names- apart from on, say, butchers vans and signs on shops owned by the same family for generations- in regular or even occasional use in my lifetime. Hy is Henry. Jas James, Jos Joseph, Fk Frederick, Geo George,.
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Post by AdminSTB on May 19, 2020 19:21:41 GMT
Those name abbreviations also turn up a lot in census returns and parish registers and will be familiar with genealogists.
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Post by J.G.Harston on May 19, 2020 23:34:18 GMT
Those name abbreviations also turn up a lot in census returns and parish registers and will be familiar with genealogists. My census transcript processing code has a segment that deals with a lot of those. Every now and then I trip over another one and have to add it in.
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Post by swanarcadian on Sept 16, 2020 19:56:33 GMT
Yeadon UDC 1915
There was a double take when I read the occupation of the last placed candidate: willeyer. I checked to make sure I hadn't misread it, but a bit of research has led me to understand that a willeyer was a textile worker (as many a worker was in these parts) whose job entailed feeding fibres into a "willeying" machine to separate and comb them for carding, often blending fibres in the process. It's amazing what you learn from browsing through old rags.
The result:
3 seats
Elected (including 1 Labour candidate, unspecified by the Yorkshire Post): JT Vickers, butcher 408 S Pickard, warehouseman 394 T Hardisty, baker 375
Unsuccessful: W Cowgill, warp dresser 362 William Manton, willeyer 334
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