My grandmother's aunty Emily Esther was always called "Aunt Polly Em". The Polly was because she kept a parrot!
Uncle Jim's real name was Jabez and sometimes his brothers called him Jabe.
No one alive now knows why my other grandmother, Annie Eliza, was called Peachy.
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Love from Nell
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Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire
Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall
Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey
Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire
Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk
Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire
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