Is not showing a full name in Search Results a new issue?

Paul W

There were two individuals of similar identity born at Darlington in the 1853-54 period: a William Wrightson and a William Robert Wrightson. This 1861 census record appears to be for the plain William Wrightson from the search results page, but opening the record reveals it to be for William Robert Wrightson. Is this how names have always appeared (i.e., with no middle name, where one is clearly found to be in the record) or is this a new issue?

I found this with a member of the "other" Wrightson family who lived at Darlington at this period. He appears as Richard Wrightson on the Results page, but has his full name (Richard Hedley Wrightson) shown in the record, just as illustrated in this example (for William Robert).

SerraNola

@Paul W I have added this to the agenda to discuss with engineers and will be looking for other examples. Middle names should not be getting dropped.

Paul W

Update - for anyone interested enough! I just found the 1861 census record for the "plain William" Wrightson - courtesy of FreeCEN. I could not find it in the search illustrated above as his age had been indexed as "1" in the FamilySearch version, instead of the correct age of 7. (To make it even more difficult to locate, it had been attached as a source to a William Wrightson born in 1860 in Hartlepool, Durham. Now reattached to correct profile, and FreeCEN source added as back-up evidence!)