Old Hand Writing

Below are some examples of old style abbreviations of proper names. (Click here to go back to About Old Records)

Abraham	Asa	Alexander
Andrew	Benjamin	Charles
Christian	Christopher	Cornelius
Daniel	Edward	Ephriam
Ezekial	George	Francis
Henry	Gabriel	Jeremiah
Jerome	Joseph	James
John	Jonathan	Matthew
Micheal	Matthias	Nathaniel
Nicholas	Samuel	Richard
Simon	Stephen	Soloman
Robert	Thomas	Timothy
William	Zachariah	Senior

With thanks to Sabina J. Murray for her useful web page from which this was taken.

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