Re: Gaelic / British

Charles Ellson wrote:
On Wed, 31 May 2006 18:17:17 GMT, pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Patrick Wallace) wrote:


On Wed, 31 May 2006 11:07:46 +1000, "Ian S.........."
<Lordnelson@Trafalgar> wrote:

Greetings. I am creating my family tree and the name 'Jno' crops up now and again as a Scottish Christian name. Could this be an abbreviation or John in Gaelic.

Not Gaelic, a standard abbreviation for John in English. Quite why
it's in that form I don't know.


Principally it was possibly an ink-and-quill-saving device when
writing quickly was not an option, the letters trailing the initial
usually being in superscript and often underlined. The apparent
transposition of the "o" and "n" (which wasn't always the case) might
be more tangled up with previous use of Latin than Mick G seems to
suggest.
It's amongst this lot:

http://freereg.rootsweb.com/howto/latinnames.htm

Latin Spoken Notes
----- ------ -----
Jno. John abbr. of Johannes
Joannes John


MickG
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