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Anyone know if Betsey could be Elizabeth

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Annina

Annina Report 22 Jul 2009 14:32

I have the same problem with Elizabeth also Hannah down as Ann , Annie

Anna ect.

One Aunt that I had always known as Joy was actually Joyce.

Karen in the desert

Karen in the desert Report 22 Jul 2009 09:42

I have an ancestor who was actualy baptised Betsey....she turns up in adult life as Elizabeth on a census return, but I guess that could have been the enumerator's fault, trying to do things properly and guessing what her real name was.

I have Elizabeth's going all the way back thrrough my family, several in each generation.....they range through Elizabeth, Betsey, Betsie, Bess, Eliza and Lil.

K

Researching:
Researching: MILLS & ROBERTS Cambs: TAGG Thames Ditton & East Molesey, Surrey: LEETON/LEADON Hunts & Cambs: LLOYD London/Middx: FROST London/Middx: ROSKAS, KISELIUS, BUDAS W.Lothian & Lanarks: ROSKAS, JAKAS/JAKAITE, JUSKEVICIUS, MICKEVICIUS Lithuania

AllanC

AllanC Report 21 Jul 2009 22:33

This site is all about names and has a long list of familiar forms of Elizabeth:
www.geocities.com/edgarbook/names/welcome.html

Ann L from Darlo

Ann L from Darlo Report 19 Jul 2009 10:49

Thank you ---since I posted I found Betsey age 8 months with her mum and she is down as Elizabeth

Nickydownsouth

Nickydownsouth Report 18 Jul 2009 17:10

Elizabeths can also be Bessie and Betty, I have both in my tree.


Nicky

Researching:
Furniss/Furness in Lancashire,Critchett in Devon and London, Keemish/Camish/ Kemish from Hampshire then Cambridge, Copper and Godden in Kent, Spink/Spynk in Norfolk and Cambridge

AllanC

AllanC Report 18 Jul 2009 16:59

From 'Pygmalion' by George Bernard Shaw:

Higgins: What's your name?
The Flower Girl: Liza Doolittle.
Higgins [declaiming gravely]
Eliza, Elizabeth, Betsy and Bess,
They went to the woods to get a bird's nes'.
Pickering: They found a nest with four eggs in it;
Higgins: They took one apiece and left three in it.
They laugh heartily at their own fun.
Liza: Oh, don't be silly.

An acquaintance of ours, christened Elizabeth, has been known as Betty for so long that people put B as her initial when addressing letters and so on.

Ann L from Darlo

Ann L from Darlo Report 18 Jul 2009 14:30

Thanks Chris---

Ann L from Darlo

Ann L from Darlo Report 18 Jul 2009 14:14

Am trying to find a marraige and wonder if Betsey could have been christened Elizabeth