Originally Posted by
RoderickOfClanMadHaggis
Plus, back then not many people could read or write, so maybe they just spelt it phonetically...who knows?
Hence, the problem when doing genealogical research of so many alternate spellings of a name. Many people did not write their name, so when a name was recorded, the clerk (or whoever) spelled the name the way he thought it sounded.
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