"Jno." is "John" abbreviated? What a County!"

May I ask, why would it be acceptable to shorten 'John'? Now I know that "Jnoth" is short for "Johnathan", so I guess they created 'Jno' to be consistant.

Still, I say meh.

So anyway, I'm looking into whether the Jno. C. Waitley in my line is the same on FamilySearch's archive entry of John Waitley. They lived at the same approximate time in the same place: Grand, Marion, Ohio. Maud, Jno.'s daughter, is a bit of a loose link in my tree, because I can't find who her husband was. Problem is, FS's record of John Waitley shows seven children, but not Maud. John even has a boy that was born the same year as Maud, 1879. My question is, if they were possible twins, why wasn't Francis (John's son) on the 1879 Ohio Birth Records list?

I've been told before that sometimes stillbirths aren't recorded at all, which actually becomes an annoyance to a fledgling genealogist like myself.

Here's the page I'm working from:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/records/index#count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AMaud~%20%2Bsurname%3AWaitley~%20%2Bbirth_place%3A%22Grand%2C%20Marion%2C%20Ohio%22~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1879-1879

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Here are the facts as I have them:

FATHER
John Waitley - 1843

MOTHER (Same as Page?)
Sarah L. Waitley - 1851

CHILDREN
Alva B. - 1863
Fred C. - 1866
Ella A. - 1868
Grace E. - 1871
William R. - 1872
Mary - 1874
Francis M. - 1879

MY ANCESTOR
Maud Waitley - 1879