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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #27 on: Thursday 25 June 15 12:14 BST (UK) »
Quote from: KGarrad on Thursday 25 June 15 11:03 BST (UK)
I think actress Minnie Driver quite likes the name?! ;D ;D

Her full name is Amelia Fiona J. Driver
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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #28 on: Thursday 25 June 15 12:40 BST (UK) »
Ok then, how about Minnie Riperton?! ;D

Or Minnie D Craig - First female speaker of the US House of Representatives?
Or Minnie Fisher Cunningham - leading suffragette?
Or Minnie Marx - mother and manager of the Marx Brothers?
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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #29 on: Thursday 25 June 15 13:30 BST (UK) »
Minnie Cauldwell  ;D  ;D
Now that HAS aged me  :o
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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #30 on: Thursday 25 June 15 22:50 BST (UK) »
That Minnie Ripperton........... she could hit some high notes!!!!
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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #31 on: Friday 26 June 15 16:00 BST (UK) »
Thanks, everyone - "Miriam" was the right one! Amazing you could all think of so many names it could be a shortened/pet version of. But it's solved. Mine was a Miriam.
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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #32 on: Sunday 28 June 15 16:33 BST (UK) »
No one mentioned Minnie the Moocher?!

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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #33 on: Thursday 06 August 15 19:11 BST (UK) »
I have two Minnie's on my grandmother's side, born in London in the late 19th century.

One died at a young age and the parent's named their next daughter Minnie Rose.

My g-grandfather used to say about his sister that "Minnie Rose and fell again"

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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #34 on: Friday 07 August 15 10:00 BST (UK) »
My late wife had an aunt ...... 'Minna'
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Re: "Minnie"??? what's that short for?
« Reply #35 on: Wednesday 07 July 21 15:45 BST (UK) »
My great aunt was registered at birth as Minnie in 1890 but showed up as "Mary Letitia" in the 1901 and 1911 Irish censuses.  We always knew her as "Aunt Marie" but she was married and buried as Mary L.
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