On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:47:58 +0000, Temprance wrote: > Nellie and i'm wondering What the name Nellie could also be? Lizabeth? Eleanor, Ellen or Helen rather than (E)Lizabeth. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" This disease is catching Into The Valley - Skids

"Brad Rogers" <news@yoss1960.ukfsn.org> wrote in message news:pan.2008.02.09.23.10.25.947138@abydos.stargate.org.uk... | On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:47:58 +0000, Temprance wrote: | | > Nellie and i'm wondering What the name Nellie could also be? Lizabeth? | | Eleanor, Ellen or Helen rather than (E)Lizabeth. | True. But I had a Great Aunt Nellie (nee KELLY). In one of the censuses the enumerator thought he knew everything and put her down as Ellen. But her birth certificate very cleary spells out Nellie. I have known other Helens and Ellens called Nellie, however. -- Henry Brownlee Houma, Louisiana

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:55:45 -0600, Henry Brownlee wrote: > True. But I had a Great Aunt Nellie (nee KELLY). In one of the censuses the > enumerator thought he knew everything and put her down as Ellen. But her > birth certificate very cleary spells out Nellie. I have known other > Helens and Ellens called Nellie, however. Certainly, any diminutive will stand on its own merits. As for the enumerator, well, there's nothing more to add. :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" He looked the wrong way at a policeman I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:10:27 +0000, Brad Rogers <news@yoss1960.ukfsn.org> wrote: >On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:47:58 +0000, Temprance wrote: > >> Nellie and i'm wondering What the name Nellie could also be? Lizabeth? > >Eleanor, Ellen or Helen rather than (E)Lizabeth. . or Penelope.

Brad wrote these possible names that Nellie is short for > > Eleanor, Ellen or Helen rather than (E)Lizabeth. Mary responds: In our family there is a Nelda, and a a Thusnelda, who were Nellies. Also Antonella, Prunella, Cornelia, Nilsa, Penelope, Janelle etc.