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ArchivesRe: Interchangeable name - Sarah / Jemima
in reply to a message by Sue Restell
Don't you think it could have been just a mistake? All kinds of errors crept into old records (and even modern ones, for that matter). I would assume that Jemima was the mother, and Sarah Ann the daughter.
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Yes I do wonder if it could be a mix up. I don't know whether the 1861 enumerators took details verbally (in which case he could quite easily have mixed up the mother and daughter's names) or if the householder filled out a form like in 1911 (in which case it would have been harder to mix them up). I just wondered if Jemima and Sarah were 2 versions of the same name - sort of like Elizabeth and Betty.
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