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Scotland / Scottish name diminutives and equivalents Janet/Jessie
« on: Tuesday 19 December 17 18:18 GMT (UK)  »
The information given on this site:

http://www.whatsinaname.net/female-names/Jessie.html

may help researchers who have, as I had, met a brick wall over the name Janet and/or Jessie. The 2 names have been synonymous for at least 2 centuries. A girl baptised Janet often becomes Jessie in subsequent records, and slightly more unusually, the opposite happens, as in the case of my gg grandmother, baptised Jessie 1827 in Canonbie, daughter of Abel Armstrong and Isabella Taylor, who is known as Janet for the rest of her life.

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Dumfriesshire / Re: Taylor Canonbie
« on: Tuesday 19 December 17 11:41 GMT (UK)  »
Extensive further research has revealed that the Jessie Armstrong born 1827, who married George Annand, was not the daughter of Abel Armstrong and Isabella Taylor, but her parents were John Armstrong and Mary Lees who were married in Fala and Soutra ( East Lothian)in 1813. This information comes from the marriage record of her sister Jane.

 It is probable that Jessie was baptised as Janet in 1827. She is on the 1841 census with her parents in Saltoun, E. Lothian aged 14.

 The name Jessie is a long-standing Scottish diminutive for Janet and the 2 names have been synonymous in Scotland for several centuries.

Unfortunately there are no baptism records for Janet/ Jessie nor for her siblings, except for Alexander who emigrated to Australia, and a sister Elizabeth. The others are Jane, Thomas, John, Mary and Eleanor.

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Dumfriesshire / Re: Taylor Canonbie
« on: Tuesday 07 November 17 11:47 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to unravel a mystery re Jessie Armstrong baptised 1827 Priors Lynn, Canonbie, daughter of Abel and Isabella and whom I have always thought was my great-great grandmother. This Jessie does not appear on the 1841 and 51 censuses but there is Jannet aged 14 in 1841 in Gretna with her parents and brother, and in 1851 in Longtown. It has been assumed that Jannet is Jessie, but quite possibly they were sisters. There is no baptism record for a Jannet but all Abel and Isabella's other children were baptised in Canonbie. I'm very open to being proved wrong --- just want to get at the truth.  I wonder if you have an 1852 marriage certificate for Jessie and George Annand, or any other document which gives her parents' names. Abel and Isabella are named on Jannet's marriage certificate in 1851.

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