{"id":16742,"date":"2023-06-12T11:37:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=16742"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:53:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:53:48","slug":"the-double-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/12\/the-double-s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Double S"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"781\" height=\"115\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/double-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/double-s.jpg 781w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/double-s-300x44.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/double-s-768x113.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Her name was not Capander Newman. The 1844 marriage reference in Marion County was to Cassander Newman. What looks like a &#8220;p&#8221; as the third letter of her name in the 19th century script was actually &#8220;ss.&#8221; Up through much of the 19th century, this usage was common. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually the &#8220;p&#8221; that replaces the &#8220;ss&#8221; does not look like an actual &#8220;p.&#8221; If possible read the rest of the document to see if there is a letter you can clearly identify as a &#8220;p.&#8221; There probably is a difference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless the writer just insisted on making them the same way. It&#8217;s also worth noting that not all writers followed all the rules for writing script. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But keep in mind this usage was common. The 1844 was marriage shown as an illustration to this post was for Cassander and not Capander. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her name was not Capander Newman. The 1844 marriage reference in Marion County was to Cassander Newman. What looks like a &#8220;p&#8221; as the third letter of her name in the 19th century script was actually &#8220;ss.&#8221; Up through much of the 19th century, this usage was common. Usually the &#8220;p&#8221; that replaces the &#8220;ss&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}