Late 16C English Given Names: Notes on Francis
Late Sixteenth Century English Given Names
Notes on the name Francis
Francis: Francis was used for men and women at this time; one instance of Frances is demonstrably fem. Francis Winter, a merchant stranger who died overseas, need not be English.
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