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Offline Lisajb

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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 15:46 BST (UK) »
I've an Auntie Minnie who was a Minerva. Need to check later on re occupations, but the family weren't from the higher echelons of society

Added: definitely not - father was a farm labourer!
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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 16:13 BST (UK) »
I've seen two separate Minnies:
- Mary Ann
- Amelia
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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 16:15 BST (UK) »
My greatgrandfathers second wife was named Minnie. That was the name she was baptized with. Not short for anything.

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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 16:17 BST (UK) »
Like Josephine...I have a Minnie who was Amelia.
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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 16:18 BST (UK) »
My Great Aunt was a Minnie (later just Aunt Min) and she was a Marion at her christening and registration.

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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 16:20 BST (UK) »
I had a great Aunt Minnie, not short for anything - registered as Minnie.

Plenty of Minnies on Freebmd, averaging over 20 per quarter between 1880 and 1900 in Nottinghamshire alone (just happened to be searching on that place and time period).
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
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Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 16:35 BST (UK) »
According to the "Oxford Names Companion" Minnie was the pet form of Wilhelmina and was at the peak of its popularity in the latter half of the 19th Century. It partly fell out of use because of its association with cartoon characters such as Minnie Mouse and Minnie the Minx (in the Beano)  :)

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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 20:16 BST (UK) »
I've got a gggreat aunt named Araminta who was also called Minnie.

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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 21:26 BST (UK) »
I just did a exploratory search via FreeBMDs "Search Names" page.

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search-names.pl

They have 467,135 official (indexed) records that include the given name "Minnie".

For further example, there were 49,893 births of people called "Minnie" in the UK between 1900-1930.

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