The Jauncey One-Name Study

Variants

JANCEY, JANCY, JANNCEY, JOHNSEY, JOHNCEY, JONCEY

My great grandfather Alfred JAUNCEY was recorded with and used this spelling from the time of his marriage in 1839, but was baptized 8 Sep 1813 in Stonham Aspal, Suffolk with the spelling JOHNCEY. 

I have included JANCEY/JANCY, JANNCEY, and JAUNCY,  as variants (used fairly consistently through a person’s life or for a family line), although these also occur as deviant spellings (inconsistent or misspelt, often depending on context and who was doing the writing), as do versions with ‘s’ in place of ‘c.’ 

Deviant Spellings and/or Transcription Errors

An ever-growing list! Deviant spellings are as recorded in the original document (or by a copy made of that original, e.g. Bishops’ Transcripts of parish records). Mistranscriptions are how JAUNCEY and its variants have been misread or misinterpreted by the transcription process at genealogy websites.

Deviant spellingsMistranscriptions
JannecyJoncyFaunceyJoucey
JaunseyJohncyJamceyJoundy
JawncyJohnceyJanneyLauncey
JawncyeJonceyJameySauncey
JaunceyeJonseyJanneryTauncey
Janncye JauceyYancey
Jeancey JaunceryYanncey
Jencey Jaunroy 

For more on variants and deviants, see

https://one-name.org/variants-and-deviants/

As a side line to my study, I am interested in the CHAUNCY name and variants, due this being one of the suggested original spellings. I am researching evidence for a connection.  However, there are already numerous genealogies and profiles for various armigerous bearers of this name, and it will be outside the main scope of my One-Name Study.

Other surnames found mis-transcribed as Jauncey/Jancey/Joncey

Some examples of transcriptions indexed as one of these variants on the main commercial sites, where the original image is clearly a different name:

  • FAUCET
  • JENNEY
  • JOHANSON
  • JOHNSON
  • JOYCE
  • SOUCEY
  • TANSEY
  • TANZEY
  • YANNCEY

The name YANCEY has been extensively researched by Dennis J. Yancey, The Yancey Family Surname Resource Centre   and he does include Jauncey amongst his “Surnames Similar In Spelling Or Phonetics To The Surname Yancey And Other Surnames Which May Be Related” pages.