Livingston name variants
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- By Douglas Ron Livingston
After only a cursory review of the source data it becomes readily apparent the spelling was not standardized until very recently. This is especially true with names. Indeed, names continue to be spelled in a variety of ways.
Variants of Livingston
There are literally dozens of variations of the name “Livingston” that have resulted by combining any most any of the following pairs and possibly others:
| Leve- | -son |
| Levi- | -soun |
| Levin- | -stan |
| Leving- | -sten |
| Liv- | -stin |
| Live- | -ston |
| Livei- | -stone |
| Livi- | -stong |
| Livie- | -stonn |
| Livin- | -stonne |
| Living- | -stoon |
| Livinge- | -stoone |
| Livisi- | -stoun |
| Livun- | -stoune |
| Liweing- | -stown |
| Liwing- | -stowne |
| Lyvi- | -ton |
| Lyvin- | -tone |
| Lyving- | -tonne |
“Muir” is another surname commonly found in our family. It is found spelled Muir, Moor, Moore, Muire, Muirie, or Murray.
In addition to the spelling conventions are the variants to the names themselves. Whoever it was that wrote down the name, they simply wrote it as they heard it, Scottish brough and all. At other times, they may be written in an abbreviated form or just simply as a typographical error.
Given Name Variants
Just as we understand “Will” and “Bill” to be the same person, a number of our ancestors’ names take on a similar duality. For the purpose of this report and to simplify research, names and spelling variations have been standardized according to accepted practice including the following:
| AGNES | for Agnes, Ann, Anne, Nancy, or Nannie |
| ALEXANDER | for Alexander, Alex, Alec, or Sandy |
| ARCHIBALD | for Archibald, Archbald, Eherbald, Archd, Ard, or Gilleaspuig |
| CATHERINE | for Catherine, Cathrine, Kathrerine, Kathrine, or Katren |
| CHRISTIAN | for Christian, or Christina |
| CHRISTOPHER | for Christopher, Christie, Christal, or Kit |
| DANIEL | for Daniel, or Donald |
| ELIZABETH | for Elizabeth, Elisabeth, Elsbeth, Betty, Bessie, Isobel, Isabel, or Isabella |
| EUPHANE | for Euphane, or Euphan |
| GIORSAL | for Giorsal, Grissel, Grisle, Grisal, Gresal, Grizel, Girsell, or Grace |
| HELEN | for Helen, Hellen, or Hellon |
| JANE | for Jane, Jean, Jessie, or Janet |
| JAMES | for James, Hamish, Seamus, or Jacobus |
| MARIAN | for Marian, Marion, Mary, or Marie |
| PETER | for Peter, or Patrick |