Female nicknames
 

This is interesting:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en...PSveP8rmgogQ-c

I don't think I'd like to be Haggy!

Lol Me neither!

Fanny for Sarah (my name) in Hampshire? I didn't know that. :eek:

I see they say Molly for Mary but Polly for Mary Ann. I don't think that's right? Surely Polly could also be a Mary?

These are not nicknames. A nick name is a jokey thing - Bojo for Boris, for example. This is a list of variant spellings and diminutives!

I have Amabel in 1200-and something. She appears a few times in land transactions etc as Annabel and just as many times as Amabel. As far as I am concerned, her given name is Amabel or Annabel, no nickname or alternative involved.

My mum was Mary. No middle name. Dad called her Polly. (Mary - Molly - Polly). Great Aunt was Mary Emma, also Polly. Her NICKNAME in the family was Auntie Thinny, because she was tall and thin.

Lancashire makes Mary into Mally (dialect variation of Molly). It's not a nickname.

There! Glad I got that off my chest.

OC

When I posted this I had only given the list a cursory glance and on further inspection some of the names seem slightly odd.

I have never seen Matthew for Martha!

Perhaps they should call it a list of diminutives.

Lol Elizabeth.

I remember on GR years ago, how we all looked for Stuart somebody and couldn't find.him. Poster shouted that Stuart was a girl's name, we were all stupid.

OC

I have. You get it a lot in Norfolk, usually pre abt 1720.

My grandmother was Mary Ellen and known as Polly

My nickname appears to be "Jug"! (for Joan) - never heard of that before :confused: