Meanings of different spellings in anglès

Shakespeare, for example, signed his own name with several different spellings.

We also used different spellings of waterpipe terms commonly used.

Gives the definitions and different spellings of "klieg light" in different dictionaries.

I tried half a dozen different spellings, and was about to give up when a Google search result caught my eye.

Queen Elizabeth employed seven different spellings for the word "sovereign" and Leicester rendered his own name in eight different ways.

Look at records for adjoining areas, look at earlier and later records, try different spellings, different forenames, different families in the same area.