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Re: Interchangeable name - Sarah / Jemima
Yes I do wonder if it could be a mix up. I don't know whether the 1861 enumerators took details verbally (in which case he could quite easily have mixed up the mother and daughter's names) or if the householder filled out a form like in 1911 (in which case it would have been harder to mix them up). I just wondered if Jemima and Sarah were 2 versions of the same name - sort of like Elizabeth and Betty.
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Yes, it's probably just a data entry error, whether modern or original.
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They are both direct Anglicizations of distinctly different Hebrew names.
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