I've been asked about which spelling is the correct spelling for Reilly. In the course of going through the burial records I've come across many different spellings of Reilly and when transcribing those records I have gone with the spelling used by the signing family member or that was in common use at the time. Spellings, like language, change over time. In the earliest records there is a Moor with no e, and of course today there are a great many Moores in the Rupert area who may very well be descended from those without e's. A gentleman by the name of McDonald had two sons, one who used Mc and the other who used Mac. I'm not a genealogist and I am not as familiar with the local families as someone who lives there but you do have to wonder if McCorkill, McCordell, McCorkell, McKortel families aren't perhaps related. Literacy was also a factor as in early years a great many people, sometimes including the minister recording a rite, were less than comfortable with reading and writing. If the names sound familiar is is possible it may be the same family though it may be a different branch or a different point in time, or just a different person writing it down.
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