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what does Jno mean?

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Nicola

Nicola Report 5 Apr 2008 19:19

Hi I have a child on a census withthe 'name' Jno. Looking at the page almost every family has teh same. At first I thought it was short for Junior ie same name as dad but then some of dads are called Jno too??

Can anyone shed any light for me?

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?viewrecord=1&ti=5538&r=5538&db=uki1901&F0=LANRG13_3711_3713-0595

Thanks Nicola

Andrew

Andrew Report 5 Apr 2008 19:23

Its short for John

Also see
Jas = James
Hy = Henry
Wm = William

others I can't think of at the moment

Andy

Tiger Lil

Tiger Lil Report 5 Apr 2008 19:24

Nicola,

I have had this abbreviation too - in the case of my relatives it was short for "John".

Lynn

Huia

Huia Report 5 Apr 2008 19:48

I always thought it was short for Jonathon, seems silly to shorten John by one letter and get the o and n the other way round, but then they did silly things in 'those days'. And of course John is a shorter version of Jonathon.
Huia.

Nicola

Nicola Report 5 Apr 2008 19:55

thanks everyone