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From: Anne Peat <>
Subject: Re: [DEV] Jane/Jenny SIMPSON
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:30:31 +0100
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Jenny was used as a pet name for Jane ( this was before Jennifer was a
fashionable name!)

Anne
On 29 Aug 2007, at 16:11, SUSAN DIXON wrote:

> Can anyone help with a marriage probably in Stoke Damerel? I am
> trying to find out who James SIMPSON married, the 1841 census gives
> his age as 50 and that of his wife Jane. He is dead by 1851. I have
> had it suggested that his wife was really called Jenny, but she is
> still Jane in 1851.
> Sue
>
> Scarth Lawrence Hughes Ryan Harris Lane Leighton Marsh Smith Crisp
> Patterson Grimshaw Davis Simpson Hesketh Richardson Jones Watson
> Linklater Walker Wheeldon Wilson are all names of interest to me.
>
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