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On the question of whether or not the names were interchanged in public records:
I am sure that no one means to say that a person did not know his own name. Of course he knew how to pronounce his name and probably did so correctly every time.
That is not the question. The problem is that he did not have the luxury of writing down the name in the public records. The clerk did that.
If a person is researching a name like Childress, he would be foolish not to look at all of the available spellings that he finds. He would miss a lot of his ancestors that way.
It is not whether or not he knows his name, but whether or not the clerk wrote the name as he told him, and whether or not the clerks handwriting was legible.
Wynell
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