When researching in old newspapers, don't count on the first name being right.

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11. Also the person taking the information for the record may not have spoken the

same language and had to record it phonetically. A name spoken to an Irishman by a German would be heard differently by a Frenchman (I say man because the people working in the newspaper or courthouse where those names were written down were men)

I've found that hardly anyone could spell French surnames. Most are different in every record or newspaper.

The surnames misspelling settled down around 1900 when most children were going to school and teachers taught them how to spell their surname, although the same family i.e. cousins going to different schools might not learn to spell their surname the same yet still come from the same family.