Person:Anne Batt (3)

Facts and Events
Name[2][3] Anna Batt
Married Name Anna Angier
Gender Female
Christening[1] Salisbury, Wiltshire, EnglandSt. Edmund's
Marriage Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Edmund Angier
Death[2] Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[3] Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Baptized as "Anne" as was her mother (Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis, pp. 1:83 and 1:135, citing parish registers. Married and died as "Anna" as recorded by a Town Clerk or other appropriate official. Gravestone also has "Anna" - see image. What then is the criteria for determining which given name is the "correct" one?

References
  1. Batt, of Boston, in Davis, Walter Goodwin, Compiler, and Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants). (Baltimore, Maryland, United States: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996)
    1:83.

    "Anne (Batt), bapt. Aug. 1, 1630, at St. Edmund's (Salisbury); m. June 12, 1657, Edmund Angier."

  2. 2.0 2.1 Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
    2:451.

    "Anger, Anna, w. of Edm[un]d, [died] Oct. 3, 1688, a. 58 y."
    [Birth about 1630.]

  3. 3.0 3.1 Ann Batt Angier, in Find A Grave.