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Where first names in your Tree's have been changed

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Oddsocks

Oddsocks Report 29 Aug 2010 23:42

Hi there,

As anyone during their reseach found situations where names of individuals have been changed, maybe they didn't like the name given to them so changed it completely or just altered it slightly.

Whilst searching for my ancesters I recently came across an old family tree map a Genes Reunited member kindly passed onto me it included my great great paternal grandparent's who married 2nd Feb 1852 St Mary's Church Lace Market Nottingham.

Their siblings were named - NELLIE; MARY; ANN; JACK; EMMA; GEORGE; HANNAH; ELIZABETH - this caused me a problem because i couldn't find thier daughter ELLEN, I suddenly realized she referred herself as NELLIE !

Bill

Trish Devon

Trish Devon Report 29 Aug 2010 23:46

Hi Bill,
Have also come across this,
found a polly,but her real name was Mary,
certainly puts you of your tracks.lol!!!!!!!!!

Researching:
Webber,Strong. ( Watchet,Minehead,Somerset)Drake,(Plymouth Devon)

Joy

Joy Report 29 Aug 2010 23:49

Yes, Nellie for Ellen, Polly for Mary, Nancy or Nance for Ann ... :-)

+++DetEcTive+++

+++DetEcTive+++ Report 29 Aug 2010 23:49

How about an Ellen who decided to be a Doris? At least mother in law remembered about it, or we'd still be hunting - lol

Researching:
Dormant member as from 20 Sep 2019 . Click on my board name to send a message

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 30 Aug 2010 01:22

I've got a few.
My great aunt Nell was really Alice.
Her mother Amelia was really Agnes - Amelia was her second name. Agnes's sister Bella was really Ethelrinda (Bella wasn't HER second name!)
My ggrandfather Sidney was really Gifford. His brothers, known as Frederick and Ernest were really Ivor and Sylvanus (why make it easy for descendants to trace you by keeping your unusual forenames - I was lucky their sister kept her own name!!)
Great uncle Leslie was really (another) Ivor.
Grandad's best mate Stan was registered as George.
My dad was known by his second name.
My brother doesn't use his birth name


....and that's only the ones I've found/was told or knew about!!

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)

Oddsocks

Oddsocks Report 30 Aug 2010 10:46

Thanks for your replies everybody good luck finding those names.

Bill

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 30 Aug 2010 10:56

My MIL was Ellen. some called her Ellie ,fair enough, but some family members called her Pat. reason, her dads family were Irish and so she was the shortened female version of being a Patrick!

didnt help when i was looking up her birth for 1904 and she was in Ireland by 1911 with paternal grandparents

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957