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Hi all
I have Jamesina, Wiliamina in my trees. Shame they did not stick to the old fashioned naming patters.
I picked the birth in 1906 as this is the year that Evelyn was told her mum was born and she just might have been telling the truth, the birth cert would give fathers name and occupation aswell as mothers name and if they were married would state when and where. It may be a longshot but nothing ventured....
Regards
Jackie

Evelyn - I am so sorry to hear your mum said that - trouble is you always remember the worst bits.

I did something silly when i was around 12/13 & I always remember my mum saying I would turn out to be no good just like your rotten father. It was the first time she ever mentioned him in front of me & it always stuck in my memory.

Since doing my family tree I have found out a lot about him & he wasn't that nice a person in some ways - but I would never have said that to my daughter.

Some families are strange - but I do agree - perhaps it was said to her & because she was a girlshe was shipped off away from the family & she always resented it, she still shouldn't have said it herself though.

Not like you to be embarrassed Viv!!! lol


What do we do with a whole pile of Donaldina's then??



I'm going to be sorry I asked that!

I rather thought that they would all have to be looked at as well Cynthia,as we are not certain of her birth year.
Thats a few to be seen ,and I am a bit financially embarressed at the mo ,what with christmas and a surprise 50th party to pay for,for Him in Doors..

I now have a phone number for Goddard -Fenwick that is current,but I need to speak to someone else first to see if he is still alive,but they are out.

Hear hear Jackie. I am sure Evelyn has been a wonderful mum and is much appreciated.


The only boy/girl name I can think of with my lot is a Georgina which I think is v.pretty. Donaldina however? Not on your life.


I thought I was registered with SP but I must have expired or something (well my details I mean). It isn't acknowledging my password. What is special about the 1906 one you saw or is it just the date that grabs you?

Cx

HI Cynthia

I have a lot of female ancerstors who I think were "meant" to be boys as they have their fathers or grandfathers name adapted and I have always thought "what a shame" their is nothing like making it more obvious that the family did not want girls and I have to admit if I had been given a male name with "INA" simply stuck on the end I would have changed it.
There is a birth in 1906 so I am wondering if anybody has spare credits on SP to look at image unfortunately I only have one left and 5 is needed.

Fingers crossed somebody will do a look up who knows it may just be the right one.

Evelyn

I cannot think of anything more horrible than a mother teling her daughter that she wanted a son but it makes me wonder if this is because she was told the same then shipped off to some releative simply because she was a girl and never really go over it. I suppose you will never know the truth. But atleast you did not make the same mistakes and I bet that your children are happy in the knowledge that they have a mother that loves them dearly.

Jackie

looking back at postings did you have any luck with the newspaper link on page 27 ?

http://facesmemorial.blogspot.com/2007/07/stornoway-steornabhagh.html

Corporal WILLIAM PATRICK MACLEOD
Last address in Lewis: 9 South Beach Street, Stornoway
Son of Murdo and Donaldina Macleod, of 9, South Beach, Stornoway.
Service unit: 1st Seaforth Highlanders
Service number: S/3116
Date of death: 5 November 1917 at the age of 31
Killed in action in Mesopotamia
Memorial: Basra Memorial, Iraq, Panel 37 and 64
Mentioned on family gravestone in Sandwick Cemetery, Lewis
Local memorial: Lewis War Memorial

I understand Viv, I have always told my son and daughter how much I love them, something my mother NEVER said to me, I was always the odd one out, never felt that I belonged. Still I have survived and made a good life for myself in spite of all that.
I did used to feel envious of my friends that had a happy home life though.

Evelyn

Some mothers have a lot to answer for as I know myself.
They leave you with more sadness than joy sometimes.
I do hope I have not left my sons lke that...

Donaldina? Goodness me....if you hadn't produced that list Jackie, I would have thought you had made it up. Do you know, it could be right though because you can almost make the name Diane from it can't you?

Maybe girls with this name were called Dina (deena or diner) for short??


And if her parents wanted a boy???

Stranger things have happened.

Anything is possible on this thread!!



hmmmm. more to think about....poor Evelyn, you must be x-eyed with all this.

Night night. sleep tight.

Cx.

It certainly was a popular name between 1900 and 1910 there were loads but they do seem to be concentrated in the one area

1 1900 MACLEOD DONALDINA F CARLOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 086/B0 0065 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
2 1900 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0090 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
3 1900 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0162 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
4 1901 MACLEOD DONALDINA F CARLOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 086/B0 0047 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
5 1901 MACLEOD DONALDINA F DORES /INVERNESS 096/A0 0014 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
6 1901 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0360 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
7 1902 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0056 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
8 1902 MACLEOD DONALDINA F LOCHS /ROSS AND CROMARTY 087/00 0097 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
9 1902 MACLEOD DONALDINA F CARLOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 086/B0 0044 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
10 1903 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0142 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
11 1904 MACLEOD DONALDINA F CARLOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 086/B0 0017 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
12 1905 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0202 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
13 1905 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0323 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
14 1905 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0049 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
15 1906 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0040 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
16 1907 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0214 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
17 1907 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0060 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
18 1908 MACLEOD DONALDINA F LATHERON /CAITHNESS 038/00 0084 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER
19 1909 MACLEOD DONALDINA F GORBALS GLASGOW/LANARK 644/17 0048 No Image ORDER
20 1909 MACLEOD DONALDINA F CARLOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 086/B0 0013 No Image ORDER
21 1909 MACLEOD DONALDINA F STORNOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 088/00 0091 No Image ORDER
22 1910 MACLEOD DONALDINA F CARLOWAY /ROSS AND CROMARTY 086/B0 0057 No Image ORDER
23 1905 MACLEOD DONALDINA MACKE F INVERNESS /INVERNESS 098/00 0576 VIEW (5 CREDITS) ORDER




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Jackie

As there seem to have been Donalds in the family perhaps she was Donaldina, perhaps her parents were like she herself was as she never wanted a daughter she told me, she only wanted sons.I was much saddened when she said that to me, and here I am at 77 and still remember that

I wondered about her being called Donaldina think i might have wanted to change my name if it was that!

Thank you for that Jooleh so that really might have been Mothers name.
This has certainly been a difficult thread and we are not there yet but what a lot of help I have had, thank you all so much

This one is obviously not yours Evelyn but it shows that the name did exist as early as 1894:

Name: Diane MacLeod
Birth Date: abt 1894
Age: 61
Port of Departure: Sydney, Australia
Arrival Date: 4 Apr 1955
Port of Arrival: Southampton, England
Ports of Voyage: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Fremantle, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Suez, Port Said and Marseilles
Ship Name: Strathaird
Search Ship Database: View the 'Strathaird' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Peninsula and Orient Steam Navigation Company Ltd
Official Number: 8211/01

Julie

That one is a bit early for Diane,she said she was born 1906, mind she said lots of things that turned out not to be true

I can't resist this one???!!!!!

Births Dec 1875 (>99%)
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McLeod Dolinda Pearson Sunderland 10a 568

Oh my goodness my head is in a whirl, I wish I was called Goddard Fenwick and I would be close to solving the mystery of Diane.
When my son and I went to Register House in Edinburgh they said they didnt believe my mothers name was Diane , they suggested it could perhaps have been Dolinda or something like that and she chose a different name for her self

There are also Goddard Fenwicks on Facebook.