Help Please - Name VENIE

[boydi]

Hi All

am hoping someone might be able to solve this for me.

What could the christian name VENIE be short for!!!! It is a message on the back of a very old photo, 1928, so could possibly be VINIE & short for Vincent but looks more like an E & I don't know if the reference is to a male or female.

I'm afraid I can't think of anything. Any suggestions would be wonderful.

Regards
Ruth

[Kazzaqld]

I have Venia as a name on its own in my Cambridgeshire lot.

But it could also be short for Lavinia.

[tropicalj]

hello  there
could of course be a nickname

or short for venita a girls name  but they often get nita

regards jenn

[karenlee]

Hi

I did a quick look on the FreeBMD site and there were lots of examples of the name Venie.  Judging by the majority of the middle, or second Christian names, they were female.

Cheers
Karenlee

[boydi]

Thankyou

Kazzaqld, Jenn & Karenlee. Had know idea it could be a name, gives me a few possibilities to work on.

Ruth

[tropicalj]

where is the photo taken please

jenn

[boydi]

Hi Jenn

not sure really, very poor quality, it's very sandy underfoot, people are behind & in the foreground is I "think" my grandmothers sister, Annie & her 3 children, shorts, long sleeved shirts & hats, they were possibly watching something. I only have a copy of the original but there was no postmark on the original.

I think it is possibly one of Sydney's beaches but could be Qld. Sorry, nothing much else, except Annie's message to her sister, my grandmother on the back & dated 1928.

Ruth

[tropicalj]

sorry to be persistent but are there any other names on the photo
regards jenn

[boydi]

Hi Jenn

no, no names but I think the Annie, is Annie Margery Doherty who arrived in Brisbane with her sister, Sarah Ann Doherty from Ireland in 1910. Sarah went on to marry George Dawson & lived in Sydney. Annie I think stayed on in Brisbane & possibly married John Edmund Cowderoy in 1913. One daughter is possibly Alice Jane born 1914, so 14 years in 1928 & then 2 boys who would be aged about 5 & 8 years. I did find an Isabella Cowderoy dying in Newtown NSW in 1927 who could quite possibly be another daughter between the 14 & 8 year old. Sarah died in 1930 in Pt Macquarie aged 44 years. Annie was quite angry her sister did not visit her & says "Venie went in the hospital & had an operation so you see I had no time to come down again", but may have been unaware that Sarah was very ill herself at the time. If Annie was in Qld she may have meant she could not get down to Pt Macquarie.
That's about it.
Ruth