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Is the name Nell short for anything?
« on: Tuesday 28 March 06 13:38 BST (UK) »
Can anybody please suggest what Nell might be short for?

I am trying to find a missing sibling of Gt Gt Grandmother, Kate Wraight, and all I know was that she was always known as "Nell". She had a sister Hep, who I have found out was called Hephzibah, I can't find any trace of Nell though. She probably would have been born in Faversham, Kent in the 1870s or 1880s, and her parents would have been George and Betsey Wraight. I know she definatley existed (though I can find no trace of her!), I have a photograph of her with her sister and children, signed by them on the back.

Any ideas what other names I could search for her under?

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Re: Is the name Nell short for anything?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 28 March 06 13:41 BST (UK) »
I have a couple of Nell's in my family.  One was Ellen and one was Mary Ellen.

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Harrison - Northumberland
Rowland, Nicholson, Sneaton - Whitby
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Re: Is the name Nell short for anything?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 28 March 06 13:41 BST (UK) »
Nell was often short for Helen or Helena

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Armitage:Balam:Bowden:Dean:Etchells: Farney: Stockport /Manchester
Pollitt: Failsworth.
McVeety: Melia: Ireland/Manchester.
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Re: Is the name Nell short for anything?
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 28 March 06 13:45 BST (UK) »
The 1881 census has both a Hephzibah WRAIGHT and a Nellie WRAIGHT, both born Faversham, Kent.  Nellie is with her parents, while Hephzibah is visiting her aunt/uncle.

kind regards, Arranroots  ;)
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SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN - HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD - GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS - WIL: WEBB, SALTER - RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS - GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY - MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD - SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON - IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY (DUBLIN), BOYLE(DUNDALK)


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Re: Is the name Nell short for anything?
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 28 March 06 13:48 BST (UK) »
Modify - just realised the parents don't match!!

RG11/969/7/19

WRAIGHT Frederick G H M 28 - carpenter joiner
Emma W M 24
Lizzie dau 3
Nellie dau 1


Address: 8 Westgate Rd, Faversham

All b Faversham

 Looks like Nellie is a name in its own right in this case.
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SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN - HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD - GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS - WIL: WEBB, SALTER - RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS - GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY - MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD - SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON - IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY (DUBLIN), BOYLE(DUNDALK)

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Re: Is the name Nell short for anything?
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 28 March 06 13:50 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the tips, I'll try all those names.  ;D

Arranroots,
Thanks for having a look for her. ;D The Hephzibah Wraight is the same one, she seems to be the only person with that name I have ever come across, so she is easy to find! I don't think that the Nellie Wraight is my "Nell" though (if only it were that easy! ;D), her parents would have George and Betsey Wraight, I have found all the family in 1881 apart from Nell. Her sister Kate was born in 1875 in Faversham.

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Re: Is the name Nell short for anything?
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 28 March 06 13:56 BST (UK) »
Reaalised too late that I had the wrong family!

There is a sister Elizabeth S born 1874 on the 1881 census too.  Wonder if it is her?  That would be an unusual abbreviation!

Are you sure that Nell is a sister?  Could it be a cousin or a sister in law, perhaps?

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SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN - HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD - GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS - WIL: WEBB, SALTER - RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS - GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY - MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD - SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON - IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY (DUBLIN), BOYLE(DUNDALK)

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Re: Is the name Nell short for anything?
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 28 March 06 15:07 BST (UK) »
Arranroots,

I had also started to wonder whether their sister Elizabeth was the mysterious "Nell", I just can't work out how "Nell" could have come from "Elizabeth"!  ;D I am pretty sure that Hep and Nell were sisters, though it might be worth checking to see if Hep and Kate have any cousins or sisters in law with that name.

Thanks,

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Re: Is the name Nell short for anything?
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 28 March 06 15:42 BST (UK) »
Hi
My great aunt Nell appears in 1891 as Elizabeth and 1901 as Ellen  ??? - definitely the same person.
Ancestors like to be awkward :D
Jan ;)
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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge