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11-12-10, 14:58
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The name "Eric"
I think I'm clutching at straws here, but can Eric be short for any other forename? - or commonly used, in the way that I think the Scottish Agnes is commonly called Nancy?
Also, is there anywhere I can search anywhere for births where I only know the middle name? 
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11-12-10, 16:08
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I don't think it is short for anything since it comes from a Viking name.
If you're looking for a birth around 1919 then the GRO birth index only gives middle initial, not full middle name, and I think all the local BMD sites require you to specify a surname, so no, unless the date range you're looking at is one where the GRO index does give the full middle name in which case you could search on ancestry (FreeBMD does have a way of doing it but your search would likely time out).
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11-12-10, 18:01
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I don't think Eric is short for anything and its news to me that Nancy is a pet name for Agnes. Nancy is a pet name for Ann/e as well as being a name in its own right.
My Mum knew twins called Agnes and Senga (Agnes backwards).
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12-12-10, 03:08
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there used to be a site where you could seach middle names in the IGI. It was a couple of computers ago, but I will have a search around.
Di Edit - here it is one of Hugh Wallis' very useful sites - you need the county, I think http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....m/~hughwallis/
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#5
12-12-10, 04:49
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Many thanks ladies - and thank you very much for that link, Di
 - am off to have a look
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12-12-10, 09:02
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Yes, that's for searching middle names on the IGI but it only includes middle names that may have come from surnames.
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12-12-10, 10:34
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I think Nancy must be a regional variation as I don't have any in my tree until about 1920. (She was christened Nancy).
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12-12-10, 22:28
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I have Nancy Woodhead born 1831 Oldham, Yorks and baptised 1833 Greenacres Independent - maybe as you say it was regional. It was certainly more common in the 1920/30s. Wasn't Eric the Red one of the Viking Warriors?
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12-12-10, 22:58
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I have Nancys from the 1600s onwards - Lancashire and Cheshire.
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