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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 419364, member: 201&quot;]Apparently both were used...</p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stanley_Berkeley" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stanley_Berkeley" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stanley_Berkeley</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been doing genealogical work, and have been puzzled when close relatives have different spelling of what&#039;s supposedly the same surname. </p><p><br /></p><p>According to a genealogical reference I read recently, until the 20th century, last names weren&#039;t always fixed the way they are today, and people would vary the spelling. I guess it was somewhat like the way we use nicknames today, calling people various forms of their first name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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