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Minnie is short for what?

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Paul

Paul Report 10 Feb 2005 18:37

Does anyone know what the registered name for Minnie is? My ggrandmother was a Minnie Eliza May Irons. I can find her wedding to my ggrandfather but no informatin about her birth possibly in Kent which is where they were married in 1885. Regards Paul

Researching:
Adkin, Andrews. Kmber

**Dawn O**

**Dawn O** Report 10 Feb 2005 18:45

Hi Paul, Minnie is a name in it's own right but Minnie can also come from WILHELMINA. Regards, Dawn.

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}((((*> Jeanette The Haddock <*)))){ Report 10 Feb 2005 18:48

Minnie can be a name in its own right, but in my family it has also been used as a short name for Miriam and Marion. Jeanette x

Heather

Heather Report 10 Feb 2005 18:50

I have an ancestor called Ellen who is recorded as Minnie in the 1901. Possibly because her mother was Ellen also? A sort of early mini-me?

Lesley

Lesley Report 10 Feb 2005 23:01

Hi, I had an Aunt Minnie (short for Mary Jane) Lesley

George

George Report 10 Feb 2005 23:31

my great gran had a sister Minnie who was named after her mother Ellen but to avoid confusion she was nicknamed Minnie :~)

Crista

Crista Report 10 Feb 2005 23:43

Paul, She's listed as Minnie on the census and when she died. She was 35 when she died in sept 1894 and she was born in London on the 1891 census so that puts her born about 1859. What was her father's name? Crista

Peterkinz

Peterkinz Report 10 Feb 2005 23:49

In my g grandmothers case - Sarah Ann- which is the name she used when marrying - mbut it is Minnie on the Census. Then she had a daughter - Minnie.......my Mother's Aunt Min (but her real name...............)

Researching:
Nurse of Brightlingsea, Spalton of Bottesford, Williams of Tenby, Lammiman of Kensington

Heather

Heather Report 11 Feb 2005 07:52

Hey George they werent the Jenkins family were they?

Janet

Janet Report 24 Aug 2005 18:59

My Grandmother was known as Minnie and her name was Erminia (Italian)