A question for Luke

[Captain Hook]

Hey, sorry JasHook. I didn't realize you were trying to steal my name! j/k Maybe I'll change myself to Captain Nemo or something.

Just a question: Is Hook's name Jasper or James? I thought it was Jasper, but in Return to Neverland I think he says James... anyway.

I'm still sticking with "Limited Edition" instead of member.

Hook

[2099net]

Just a question: Is Hook's name Jasper or James? I thought it was Jasper, but in Return to Neverland I think he says James... anyway.

His name is James Hook - but in the Novel/Play he sometimes refers to himself by the shorter name of "Jas" (for some strange reason).

http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext91/peter16.txt

In the midst of them, the blackest and largest in that dark
setting, reclined James Hook, or as he wrote himself, Jas.

J M Barrie's first name was James - so it is likely he was writing himself into the Play to a certain extent. I can only assume that he himself was known as Jas at some point in his life. He "invented" the name of Wendy, who was named after the nickname of a friends child. (Although this is now open to debate - but he certainly made the name popular).

One such child was a little girl named Margaret Henley (shown at the left) who adored Barrie and always called him "my friendy". However, because she couldn't pronounce her r's, the words came out "my fwendy". One variation of the tale says Margaret called Barrie "friendy-wendy" or in her pronunciation, "fwendy-wendy".

as for the debate - one Wendy writes

I must admit to being annoyed when I tell people my name. They always insist on mentioning Peter Pan. During my family reseach I have come across the name Wendy twice in the 1881 census of England, one born 1840, and one born in 1880. The magazine Family History also states that Wendy, along with the names Marian and Shirley were once boys names, and that in 1797 a boy named Wendy was apprenticed to some one in Glos.

[Sulley]

it's James. By coincedence I was watching one of the few non-Disney Pure-Magic films last night, Hook.

[Captain Hook]

Thanks 2099net and Sulley for the information! That's weird he calls himself Jas when he's James. Oh well. I guess it's good to know my name, right?

Hook (the real one)