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Nicknames in late 1790's?
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Lisa J in California | Report | 23 Jan 2009 19:19 |
Hi everyone. Thank you for your help. |
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Kate | Report | 23 Jan 2009 18:36 |
You know, Margaret, I had just the same trouble with my great-grandad. My gran and her father fell out when she married a Catholic so she more or less cut herself off from him. (Her mother had died by then.) But before Gran died, I asked her about my great grandparents and she said her father was Frederick Rothwell, born 1892. |
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MargaretM | Report | 23 Jan 2009 18:07 |
Lisa, I had a similar problem with my grandmother's name. Dad always called her Lizzie which I presumed was a nickname for his mother-in-law. It wasn't until I started searching for Elizabeth without luck that I found her name was actually Lizzie and never Elizabeth. She was christened Lizzie and married as Lizzie. |
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Kate | Report | 23 Jan 2009 17:15 |
I find sometimes a child will be christened and then referred to by the nickname for the rest of their lives as recorded in the parish records. |
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Lisa J in California | Report | 23 Jan 2009 17:03 |
Sorry, my son drove me to work. I only have a few minutes now to be here (on GR). :( |
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Vintage47 | Report | 23 Jan 2009 17:00 |
My sister has always been known as Betty but her given name is Beatrice. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 23 Jan 2009 16:51 |
Do you know her maiden name...Did her father leave a Will naming her? |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 23 Jan 2009 16:37 |
agree with Jonesy!!!! |
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Lisa J in California | Report | 23 Jan 2009 16:29 |
Jonesey: I was not hoping for that answer, as she had a common surname. :( |
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Lisa J in California | Report | 23 Jan 2009 16:20 |
I have a copy of a will from 1796. The wife's name is written down as Betty. I have a copy of the parish page showing her death in 1797 and her name is Bettie. |