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=Period Forms:=  
=Period Forms:=  
Middle English:
* Name - summarize as you would on a submission form: period spelling, type of name (eg. English feminine given name), date, source.
* Beryl as the name of a precious stone is found in Middle English dated to 1425 in the MED s.v. precious, preciouse adj. (How early do we see precious stones being used as given names? vs. bynames)
* berī̆l n. Also berill(e, berel(l(e, -all(e, birell, bir(r)al, burell. Pl. beriles, barillis, birilles, brilles - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED4176/track?counter=1&search_id=10529324
 
Family Search
* Name Edmd. Beryl  Sex Male  Baptism Date 18 Oct 1560    Baptism Place Shelton, Norfolk, England    "England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7K8-W38 : 6 November 2020), Edmd. Beryl, 1560. - Digitized - the "Y" is easily visible.
* Name Agnes Beryl  Sex Female  Death or Burial Date 29 Nov 1560  Death or Burial Place Shelton, Norfolk, England  "England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDQ2-55Z : 6 November 2020), Agnes Beryl, 1560. - Digitized - same page as Edmd (probably baby Edmund's mother) full name easily visible.
 
Similar names in Family Search
* Anthony Birlistone, Male, Marriage Date 29 Apr 1604, Marriage Place St Andrew, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England - Indexing Batch M01610-1 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2GX-JJN )
* Gauinus Birleson, Male, Marriage Date 1 Jul 1604, Marriage Place Ponteland, Northumberland, England, Indexing Batch M00441-1 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NKTN-XXW )
 
Using English letter swaps to construct a name:
* Document Berill via Family Search.
* Use i/y swap to make it Beryll.
* Document a pattern of ll alternating with single l, and use that to argue for Beryl.


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