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Offline RogFromBrum

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Re: What name could "Pem" be short for?
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 09 December 07 11:38 GMT (UK) »
Emma Parker was actually my grandmother but the picture was not of her. Emma was born in 1882.

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Re: What name could "Pem" be short for?
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 09 December 07 11:56 GMT (UK) »
You can find one of my Norfolk ancestors written on various census as "Pemly" and Pemily" but when I found her original baptism it's written plain as day "Pamela".

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Re: What name could "Pem" be short for?
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 09 December 07 12:06 GMT (UK) »
There are 3 Pemilys on the IGI for Britain - but they are all submitted by LDS members, so I'd be a bit wary.

I can just imagine the poor enumerator mistaking Pemily for Pamela when spoken in thick Norfolkese ....

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Re: What name could "Pem" be short for?
« Reply #12 on: Friday 04 January 08 17:55 GMT (UK) »
Hi

My grandmother, Lucy Button, had a sister who was always called Pem and my dad therefore only ever knew her as Aunt Pem. When we started our family history we realised her name was Emily.
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Re: What name could "Pem" be short for?
« Reply #13 on: Friday 04 January 08 17:57 GMT (UK) »
My friend's aunt Pem was really an Emily
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Re: What name could "Pem" be short for?
« Reply #14 on: Friday 06 January 12 02:48 GMT (UK) »
Hello;
Don't know if you're still posting. But my name is Pem and it is from the family name "Pemberton."

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Re: What name could "Pem" be short for?
« Reply #15 on: Friday 06 January 12 07:33 GMT (UK) »
Hi
many thanks but your message. Continuing to research I found her name was Emily so problem solved.
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Re: What name could "Pem" be short for?
« Reply #16 on: Friday 06 January 12 15:30 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
All the girls I grew up with  up  with the  nicknames  pem  were always  Pamela

Pamela is, and has  always  been shortened to Pem  where I grew up, goes without saying (and I don't mean Pam)

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