So many nicknames! My ancestor, Clement Drew b. 1775 married three times: (1) Annie/Nancy Tibbetts (2) Nancy Durgin (3) Anna…
Is there an intersection of the names Margaret and Gertrude (spelled Gertruyt and many other ways in the 1700s)? I'm…
My name is Geraldine and my nickname is Rosamay! What a mess I am leaving for the folks a century…
There's is a additional reason many used nicknames; spelling was horrible among the less educated, especially the middle and poverty…
The one important instance that you omit is Anna/Hannah, very much interchangeable in 17th and 18th century New England records.…
If only I could find the collection in Family Search...
Hester/Esther and Susanna/Anna/Hanna
Hallie Borstel this is a wonderful article. Nicknames were so prevalent in both sides of my famlly sorting them out…
Thanks for this refresher! I run into Mary/Polly quite a bit in my family.
Thanks so much for the info. After digging around, I discovered that while Stephen is descended from James (First Generation…