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Name help please>
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Linda G | Report | 17 Jul 2006 13:45 |
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Anyone got any ideas what Minnie could be short for?........ Thanks................... Linda |
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Barbra | Report | 17 Jul 2006 13:48 |
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my Grandmother was known as Minnie - her name was actually Maria. Barbara |
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Robert | Report | 17 Jul 2006 13:53 |
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I don't think it is necesarily short for anything. If you search the birth index on ancestry there are thousands of them. Rob |
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Kate | Report | 17 Jul 2006 13:54 |
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I had a look in a baby names book and found Minnie Pet form of WILHELMINA Kate :)) |
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Cornish | Report | 17 Jul 2006 14:23 |
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It could very well have been a name in its own right. I have a Nanny in my tree and was convinced that was a pet name, but nope Nanny it was. Minnie is also a derivative of Philomena, Minna, Minerva, Miriam (Mary) and Wilhelmina though. Happy hunting, Bex x |
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Heather | Report | 17 Jul 2006 15:09 |
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Loo, I had a minnie who turned out to be Ellen. Her mother was the same name and I wonder if it is a pet name (an old time mini-me!) if the mum has same name as daughter. |
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Helen | Report | 17 Jul 2006 15:17 |
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My Dad had an Aunt Min who was actually a Miriam. |
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