Talk:Sid Moffat

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Hi, there.

According to Doug Lamming's England Who's Who and especially the 1891 Census, Births Marriages Deaths, and the History Of The Lancashire Football Association (1878-1928), the spelling's Moffat - though if you've seen a birth or death certificate spelling it Moffatt...

All the best,

Cris Freddi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.45.193.152 (talk) 22:30, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's an interesting one. I was aware when writing the article that Hugh Moffat was usually spelt with one t, but the spelling of the less well-known Sid was inconsistent, tending to have two. Looking him up on FreeBMD, which was as close to a birth certificate as I could get without spending money, the only Sid Moffat born around the right time is a Sydney H Moffatt (with a y and 2 t's) registered in Congleton in the 4th quarter of 1910, which isn't incompatible with a mid-September birth. The scan of the register can be seen via this link (click on View the original).

However, going to the 1911 census, Hugh and Nellie Moffat of Congleton have a six-month-old son Sydney Hugh. So presumably a transcription error was made when the information from the birth certificate was transferred to the alphabetical register (unless the family failed to notice a mistake on the certificate itself, which seems unlikely).

I'd agree that the surname should have one t, and will move the page accordingly. Though I'm leaving the first name as Sid with an i. I've never seen it written any other way in any secondary source, regardless of the spelling of the surname, and, in the absence of any more solid information, it's perfectly possible that the adult Sydney Hugh shortened it to Sid himself, or at least had no objection to its being written that way. Thanks for raising the matter, cheers, Struway2 (talk) 10:16, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]