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Does anyone know if Kay can be used for a boys name. I have been looking for a marriage to a Clara Stansfield, I know for sure she married someone with the surname of Clegg. The only one I can find is 1910 which is about right to a Kay Clegg. Has anyone got any thoughts on this. Many thanks Jelly

Could it be a mistranscription of Ray? Can you view the actual record?

Well, there is Sir Kay in the story of King Arthur, so I guess so. Kate.

There's a Kay Clegg, age 12, brother-in-law on the 1901 census. He was born in Manchester. Heather

I found the marriage on free bmd there is no image to veiw . Iam going to try ancestry. Thanks for the pointers Jelly

Jelly, you can view the image on FreeBMD, jsut click on the little glasses at the end of the search results. Unfortunately it doesn't tell you anything as it is pre-1911 when they started adding the spouses surname.

This is the family in 1891 Emily Clegg 10 >>Ray Clegg 2 Robert Clegg 37 Sarah Clegg 36 Kay Clegg born Manchester 1888 on freebmd Heather

Thanks all. I think I might just send for the licence, the problem is I hate having to wait I want to know now. Best wishes Jelly

'Jelly', I suppose you mean you are going to order the certificate? Rather than the licence? (By the way, there were not very many girls called Kay in those days, if any, and if they were then it was probably short for something, perhaps Katherine, rather than a name in its own right.) Kate.

Ahem (goes the olde crone, importantly) In my mediaeval researches I have frequently come across the name Kay(e) used as a male name. Never as a female name though. It probably stems from the great land-owning family, the Kayes, or Keyes, who were an established family well before the Norman Invasion. I would think anyone called Kay pre 20th century would almost certainly be male. OC

Hope you don't mind me asking a Q in a similar vein on your thread Jelly Bean but has anyone come across the name Sydney for a female in the mid 19th century? According to a birth cert it was the name of an ancestor of mine which surprised me (partly because I was sure the mother was someone else!). I have come across it recently as a female name but would generally think of it as a male name. Any thoughts? Ali

Thanks a lot Ann! That's really helpful. Ali

Female spelling of Sidney is Sidonie. Not many people know that. Certainly not the Vicars, the Enumerators or the parents, by the look of things. OC