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JBee
11-10-22, 12:29
https://www.lostcousins.com/newsletters2/midoct22news.htm
kiterunner
11-10-22, 14:50
I don't think he can say that "Mathew" for "Martha" is a mistake in a PR from 1708. I have certainly come across the two names being used interchangably for women at that time before.
ElizabethHerts
11-10-22, 15:35
I was going to say that I thought Matthew used to be a girl's name too.

My sister has a female friend called Dennis.
kiterunner
11-10-22, 16:15
And Dennis used to be used as a girl's name a few centuries ago too.
Olde Crone
12-10-22, 12:41
It looked like Mather to me!

OC
kiterunner
12-10-22, 14:22
No, that's one of those old-style w's.