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Re: Minnie - Short for What?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 16 March 06 19:48 GMT (UK) »
Hi all,

Thanks to everyone for your views - most helpful.

I'll start a fresh search for my relative's birth and marriage references using the various options mentioned (Minnie has produced no results so in this case 'Minnie' does appear to be a pet name).

Again - thanks for all your trouble.

Regards,

Richard
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Re: Minnie - Short for What?
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 16 March 06 20:27 GMT (UK) »
Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary in the section, Some personal names,gives Minna, May or Wilhelmina.

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Re: Minnie - Short for What?
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 16 March 06 21:43 GMT (UK) »
Hi Isles,

Thanks for that - May is a new one for me to look at.

Regards,

Richard
Fox (Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Yorkshire); Stockton (Shropshire, Yorkshire); Moody (Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire); Kershaw (Yorkshire); Martyn (Cornwall); Barnacle (Warwickshire, Leicestershire), Cox (Staffordshire); Dunn (Staffordshire); Mitchell (Yorkshire); Evers (Yorkshire)


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Re: Minnie - Short for What?
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 16 March 06 23:56 GMT (UK) »
My g.aunt Minnie was Emmeline.
Watkins, Price Herefordshire
Brannan, Price, GLAM
Edwards, Gardner MON
Clark(e) SOM
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Re: Minnie - Short for What?
« Reply #13 on: Friday 17 March 06 00:12 GMT (UK) »
Hi ozlady,

Thanks for that - another possible name to add to my research list.

Regards,

Richard
Fox (Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Yorkshire); Stockton (Shropshire, Yorkshire); Moody (Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire); Kershaw (Yorkshire); Martyn (Cornwall); Barnacle (Warwickshire, Leicestershire), Cox (Staffordshire); Dunn (Staffordshire); Mitchell (Yorkshire); Evers (Yorkshire)


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Re: Minnie - Short for What?
« Reply #14 on: Friday 17 March 06 01:01 GMT (UK) »
There was a Min' on the goonshow!
Ford, Baines, Dixon, Platts, Peat, Proctor, Rotherforth, Dakin/Daykin, Sales, Beech, Hall, Parkin, Nightingale. ----- Harthill, Waleswood, Woodhouse-mill, Whitwell

South Yorkshire/Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire

Torremocha, Candog, Ramos, Reyes, Rodrigueus
-------Philippines --- Bohol

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Re: Minnie - Short for What?
« Reply #15 on: Friday 17 March 06 01:05 GMT (UK) »
Hi

My mum's name is Minnie and it is not short for anything. Also my dad's mum was called Minnie as well.


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Yorkshire - Thompson. Savage, Morris, Richardson, Frankish, Mintoft, Myers, Barker, Hotchkiss
Shropshire - Hotchkiss
Derbyshire - Hardwick, Barker, Marples
Lancashire - Winstanley, Morton

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Re: Minnie - Short for What?
« Reply #16 on: Friday 17 March 06 01:47 GMT (UK) »
Hi

Another to add to the list. I have a Minnie which was short for Ameila.

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Hertfordshire(Anstey, the Hadham, Reed, Standon): Gault, Hoy, Miles, Smith
Shropshire(Aston Botterell,Burwarton,Stoke St Milborough,Wheathill): Angell, Blackmore, Blakemore, Bennett, Pheysey
Essex(Dunmow,West Ham): Allen, Blackmore, Carr, Sutton
Warwickshire(Birmingham,Edgbaston): Angell
Yorkshire(Doncaster,Hull): Brooks, Doe
London/Middlesex area(Battersea,Wandsworth, Willesden): Angell, Brooks, Carr, Carswell, Salkind
Norfolk (Norwich,Nth Walsham,Lynn,Gt Yarmouth): Carr, Salkind

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Re: Minnie - Short for What?
« Reply #17 on: Friday 17 March 06 07:46 GMT (UK) »
Hi Lancs fox
I asked that quesion when I first started. I looked for Wilhelmina's and variants.  It turned out my Minnie born 1874 BTM (Before the Mouse)was indeed Minnie.

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Greenwich, London-BEARMAN/JOHNSON/GREENE Barking Essex-BEARMAN
Manchester- NEWALL/Newell or variants, LOLLEY/Lolly,WALL
Shropshire- WALL
Cheshire- MADDOCK/CARTER/PERCIVAL
Windsor, Berkshire - MILES
Buckinghamshire - MILES
Monmouthshire - JAMES & MORRIS
Herefordshire- FLEET
Yorkshire- SHIPLEY & GRAY
Sussex- EDWARDS & KNIGHT
Wiltshire/Hampshire-WATERS
Wolverhampton area Staffordshire- ASTON
Staffordshire- LOLLEY

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