Made a mistake of renaming an old account for new employee. Can we transfer history to a new employe

Initially instead of creating "john.doe@company" we have created "accounting@company" generic account, and when John Doe left the company we gave the same login to his replacement Jane Doe. The problem is, this was supposed to be just an access account but finance was issuing checks to this account. Meaning, all those records (like received checks) by John Doe now belongs to Jane Doe, which is not accurate. If we rename accounting@company to "john.doe@company" and create a new account "jane.doe@company" is it possible to transfer some old records (like received checks) for the new employee record?