My 2nd Great Grand Aunt is named Licenda Jane Thompson. Has anyone ever heard of the name Licenda? I was thinking that it should be Lucenda, but the evidence I have says that it is Licenda. Could it be a nickname for something else? Thanks, Dan

"Dan" <danchisum@gmail.com> wrote in message news:24d69ef3-8a79-40d3-8cd2-10262d7d185e@e67g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... | My 2nd Great Grand Aunt is named Licenda Jane Thompson. Has anyone | ever heard of the name Licenda? I was thinking that it should be | Lucenda, but the evidence I have says that it is Licenda. Could it be | a nickname for something else? | | Thanks, | | Dan You say the evidence you have says Licenda. What kind of evidence is it? Birth record, marriage certificate, what? If it is from a b-m-d record, I doubt it was a nickname. I think the common spelling would be Lucinda, but that's only my opinion. I also think that people spelled just as poorly in days of yore as they do today (if not worse.) Clerks, clerics, enumerators, etc. were not always much better educated than the general public. And if they came from a different country or even a different region of the same country as the respondent, they may have heard something other than what was actually said and jotted it down as it sounded. Standardized spelling is not that old of an invention. I have seen names in some records spelled two and three different ways! Besides all that, parents (even today) may have had a penchant to spell a name uniquely. A "cute" spelling, or whatever. Or even newly invented names - there was a lot of that going around. I have a cousin named JoHel, which is a combination of John and Helen - her parents' names. And let's not get into mis-transcriptions! Ancestry is a perfect example of that! -- Henry Brownlee Houma, Louisiana

Dan wrote: > My 2nd Great Grand Aunt is named Licenda Jane Thompson. Has anyone > ever heard of the name Licenda? I was thinking that it should be > Lucenda, but the evidence I have says that it is Licenda. Could it be > a nickname for something else? > > Thanks, > > Dan Since no one else has really answered the question: http://www.namesdir.com/F_Licenda Names Directory: Licenda Common misspellings and typos for this name: Licedna, Lcienda, Liecnda, iLcenda, Licend, Licenda, Licends, Licenda, Locenda, Licenda, Licenda, Licenda, Licendaa, Licendae, Licendai, Licendao, Licennda Yes Licenda is an actual, valid name. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/