Minnie - Short for What?

[MarieC]

lancs fox

Here is another one for you!  My ggrandmother was christened Camilla Denham.  I searched everywhere in the 1871 census for her, and then in some family reminiscences I found a clue that she may have been known as Minnie.  There she was, on the census, as Minnie Denham!  A pet name which made its way to the census instead of her proper one!

My mother was christened Minnie - I suppose, after her grandmother!

MarieC

[Ninatoo]

And....I knew a Minnie who was in fact Melinda!

[lancs.fox]

Hi all,

Thanks for all your comments and suggestions.

Plenty of food for thought for me.

Regards,

Richard

[jillruss]

Richard,

After all these suggestions, please let us all know if you do find your 'Minnie's' birth under another name.

Jill

[Romilly]

Hi,

My Grandmother was a Beatrice Minnie, - & she used to tell us that it was after Minnie Haha, - from the Hiawatha poem...(I can't remember who wrote it though, - Longfellow possibly?).

Romilly.

[Josephine]

I have a Mary Ann who was called Minnie.

My great-grandfather was called Tot because he was small:  it had nothing to do with his name!

Regards,
Josephine

[gazza]

could also be Minette ,French influence.
Gazza

[teap78]

I still swear Minnie is short for mary 

[MarieC]

Hi,

My Grandmother was a Beatrice Minnie, - & she used to tell us that it was after Minnie Haha, - from the Hiawatha poem...(I can't remember who wrote it though, - Longfellow possibly?).

Romilly.

Yes, I'm sure it was Longfellow, Romilly!

MarieC