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Title: The girls name "Monnie"
Post by: JulzDS on Monday 11 August 08 20:17 BST (UK)

Can anyone tell me what that would have been short/a nickname for??

Thanks

Title: Re: The girls name "Monnie"
Post by: bearkat on Monday 11 August 08 20:39 BST (UK)

Could it be short for Monica?

Title: Re: The girls name "Monnie"
Post by: JulzDS on Monday 11 August 08 20:47 BST (UK)

Thanks for that. I've just tried that and there's no records.

The child was born around 1878 and is listed on the 1881 census as Monnie, but no birth with that name.

Title: Re: The girls name "Monnie"
Post by: aghadowey on Monday 11 August 08 20:57 BST (UK)

Can you find her with another first name on 1891 census?

Title: Re: The girls name "Monnie"
Post by: JulzDS on Monday 11 August 08 21:02 BST (UK)

I can't seem to find any of the family in 1891 sadly. I was hoping to find out what Monnie would have been then search again using her proper name.

Might be an avenue to put aside for now.

Thanks again

Title: Re: The girls name "Monnie"
Post by: avm228 on Monday 11 August 08 21:12 BST (UK)

Is she Monnie Munro, 3 b Scotland, in Clee, Lincs in 1881? RG11/3273/21/36

If so, the family is still in Clee in 1891 (Monnie not with them):RG12/2618/105/45 (just use the ref rather than names to overcome any transcription errors ;))

Anna

Title: Re: The girls name "Monnie"
Post by: JulzDS on Monday 11 August 08 21:18 BST (UK)

That's the family - lol take it it's not a common name!

I'll look again for the family when I've got the cash to join ancestry again. Didn't realise my membership ended so soon :(

Title: Re: The girls name "Monnie"
Post by: avm228 on Monday 11 August 08 21:24 BST (UK)

Here you go (1891):

Clee with Weelsby
43 Cavendish St

Roderick Munroe* Head M 49 Cooper Scotland
Isabella H U do Wife M 50 Scotland
Frederick do Son S 20 Cooper Scotland
David do Son S 18 Cooper Lincolnshire Gt Grimsby
Charlotte Urquhart Mother in Law Wid 73 Scotland

* This is how the surname appears on the page itself - it may not always be transcribed as such.

and likely death of Isabella:

Isabella MUNRO aged 54 Sep 1894 Caistor 7a 328

Anna :)

Title: Re: The girls name "Monnie"
Post by: JulzDS on Monday 11 August 08 21:29 BST (UK)

Thanks for that Anna.

That is certainly the family and that confirms that Isabella was an Urquhart.

I just hope it is *my* Roderick lol, I'm not 100% sure yet until I get their marriage cert

Title: Re: The girls name "Monnie"
Post by: Argee on Wednesday 15 October 08 11:00 BST (UK)

Hi

Isabella Hay Munro (ms Urquhart) died 24 Sep 1894, two years after being run over by a horse and cart, from which she never fully recovered. I have no trace of the Munros after that.

Argee