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Old 18-08-19, 09:05
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I have several instances in a village of Sarah being rendered as Mary. (Parish gives Mary, GRO Sarah) I suspect that in those cases Sarah was known as Sairey, and the vicar was deaf or unfamiliar with his parishioners.
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