On 2 October 2013 16:54, Margaret Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And there are other nicknames for Christian, which is what appears on my > gt-gt-grandmother's christening record. I was just listing the variants I'd > found for her in her christening, marriage, census, and death records. Her > husband registered her death as "Christina", although my grandfather said > he never heard him call his wife anything but "Kirsty" -- or "my love" -- > and on her marriage certificate she signed her name quite clearly as > "Christianna". The family joke was that she decided to "frilly up" her name > to match her wedding gown :-) . > > Margaret Gibbs ===================================== Hi Margaret "Christianna" is a fairly well established name. It was used in Medieval Latin documents [in the variant form "Christiana"] for the female "Christian" and was used widely in common parlance. It has been revived as a given name since Victorian times so your gt-gt-gm was only following fashion. And why not? Maybe we all need to be a bit frilly at times?? [Personal photo not attached] Regards Ray Hennessy www.whatsinaname.net NB I have changed the Subject as someone picked it up from their Spam folder and the inclusion of *SPAM* in the heading forced it into mine!!

My grandfather, who was half Scottish and half English, had a sister named Christian. My grandmother always pronounced her name Christie-ann, but many in the family called her "Christy" and spelled her name Christine or Christina. I vote for the original spelling and pronunciation! Venita On Oct 2, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Ray Hennessy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 October 2013 16:54, Margaret Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> And there are other nicknames for Christian, which is what appears on my >> gt-gt-grandmother's christening record. I was just listing the variants I'd >> found for her in her christening, marriage, census, and death records. Her >> husband registered her death as "Christina", although my grandfather said >> he never heard him call his wife anything but "Kirsty" -- or "my love" -- >> and on her marriage certificate she signed her name quite clearly as >> "Christianna". The family joke was that she decided to "frilly up" her name >> to match her wedding gown :-) . >> >> Margaret Gibbs > > ===================================== > Hi Margaret > > "Christianna" is a fairly well established name. It was used in Medieval > Latin documents [in the variant form "Christiana"] for the female > "Christian" and was used widely in common parlance. It has been revived as > a given name since Victorian times so your gt-gt-gm was only following > fashion. And why not? Maybe we all need to be a bit frilly at times?? > [Personal photo not attached] > > Regards > > Ray Hennessy > www.whatsinaname.net > > NB I have changed the Subject as someone picked it up from their Spam > folder and the inclusion of *SPAM* in the heading forced it into mine!! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message