On this recent topic of nicknames, it drives my mom, the senior genealogist in the family, absolutely crazy that my dad's side of the family has a habit of assigning nicknames that seem to stick with the individual throughout their lives. My uncle Slim was a strapping boy and my dad was considered the runt of the litter so he was nicknamed "Bigun." I can't tell you how many cousins I have nicknamed "Pete" whose given names are something else entirely. I'm sure my brother John Eric is glad that Grandpa was the only one who ever called him "Earwig." A friend of mine once told me that the term "nickname" comes from the fact that we call the Devil "Old Nick." "So your 'nickname' is the one you do all your dirt under." I thought it an interesting theory. Speaking of names, while going through the Lees my line is related to by marriage I ran accross an interesting pair. It seems that way-back-when, Miss Sarah Lee married a fellow by the name of Benjamin Moore. Make up your own joke here... =) Calvin B. Littlefield, IBSSG "Shaking the family tree to see what nuts fall out..." --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search

In My ex-husband's family his Father was always called Captain Cook, his older brother was and is still called Big Cook and my ex is called Little Cook or just plain Little. How they ot the name Captain for my Father-in-law I will never know as he was never in the service or a captain of anything. On my Grandmother's birth certificate they have her name as Opal, but no one ever knew her by that name. She always went by Pansy so when my brother tried to get her birth cert he was told there was no Pansy Byroad listed, but that there was an Opal Byroad listed for her Father. Mary Anne Cook Frankfort, Indiana ----- Original Message ----- From: "Calvin Littlefield" <freeholder679@yahoo.com> To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 6:00 PM Subject: [BSChat] Nicknames and other names > On this recent topic of nicknames, it drives my mom, the senior genealogist in the family, absolutely crazy that my dad's side of the family has a habit of assigning nicknames that seem to stick with the individual throughout their lives. My uncle Slim was a strapping boy and my dad was considered the runt of the litter so he was nicknamed "Bigun." I can't tell you how many cousins I have nicknamed "Pete" whose given names are something else entirely. I'm sure my brother John Eric is glad that Grandpa was the only one who ever called him "Earwig." > > A friend of mine once told me that the term "nickname" comes from the fact that we call the Devil "Old Nick." > "So your 'nickname' is the one you do all your dirt under." > I thought it an interesting theory. > > Speaking of names, while going through the Lees my line is related to by marriage I ran accross an interesting pair. It seems that way-back-when, Miss Sarah Lee married a fellow by the name of Benjamin Moore. > > Make up your own joke here... > > =) > > Calvin B. Littlefield, IBSSG > > "Shaking the family tree to see what nuts fall out..." > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribe from the list: > Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsub scribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Talking about nicknames..... My husband was "Clarence", Jr. --neither "Sr.' nor 'Jr.' went by Clarence..... Sr., who had a beautiful head full of black, wavy hair--was somehow dubbed "Baldy" by his mother-in-law. (There MUST have been a story behind this nickname.) Later Sr. adopted the nickname of "Tony" (how? why?--all unknown by me). Jr. on the other hand, was nicknamed "Snookie" by his maternal grandmother (same one who nicknamed Sr., "Baldy"). (He always wished it had of been "Butch", "Bud" or something more masculine.) However he was not able to outgrow or adopt another name (like his dad) and we were calling him Snookie until he died at age 49 in 1987. When we had our family, we named our oldest son Gary Michael and our youngest was named Gregory Scott. I was going to call each of them by their first name (duh) but my aunt loved the name Michael and so she called Gary by both names. We started out by calling the younger one Gregory, but for some reason, after he started growing, he didn't seem to be a "Gregory"...so we started calling him "Scott", which seemed to be more fitting. Gary, not being able to talk clearly and because *he* had two names, started calling Scott--"Cott--Cott"-- As Scott grew and because he couldn't say Gary Michael--left off the Gary and called his brother, "Michael" (my aunt had won!) However, everyone in our family still call Gary by "Gary" except for Scott who still calls him "Michael". When Cyndi (Cynthia) had her daughter, Seana, for some reason unknown to any of us....Seana automatically called Gary, "Uncle Michael" and like I said, Scott was the only one to call him by that name. Now all the nieces and nephews refer to Gary as "Uncle Michael" and he's Gary to the rest of us. (confused yet?) One day a new friend asked how many sons did I have--she thought I had at least four because of all the names. Scott named his first-born "Gregory Scott"....but he is 'definitely' a Gregory, so there is no confusion in their names or which one we are talking to when we call "Greg" or "Gregory" or just plain "Scott". <Grin> My daughter had to go and make matters worse by marrying another "Gary Michael".....now this Gary is "Uncle Gary" to the kids but the adults refer to him as Gary J. Even *I* had a "Grandma" nickname. I had a miniature dachshund named Pokie and Seana's other grandmother had a cat named Muffin....to distinguish between the grandmothers--she would call us "Grandma Pokie" or "Grandma Muffin"--however, when she was with only one of us, we were plain "Grandma". Now, I have Pokie's granddaughter, whose name is Shadow, but has only been called Puppy all of her life....she is now 14 and now my great granddaughters call me Grandma Puppy........ Hope this was not too much confusion.... Grandma Puppy (aka Patsy; aka Patricia) in the Golden State Wine Country

My son was nicknamed Booger by my oldest granddaughter his first niece. One night on a visit to her house we were sleeping in her room, him on the top bunk and me and Tami on the bottom bunk. he was acting like the boogie man so she started calling him Uncle Booger. His oldest son has been called Little Boogie ever since he was born as he was named after his daddy, so why not the same nickname or another version of it. I call Tami's little sister who is a blond Blondie and my daughter Donna has always been called Dolly by me. I have nicknames for all of my grandchildren and children. have not picked one for my first ggrandchild yet as I have not seen him in person so don't know what woudl fit him. His mommy is my Tami, who we have always called our little red headed hamburger. The red hair fits, but go figure on the hamburger part. My second daughter is named Pansy after my grandmother and Sue after my Mom, we call her Susie, but sometimes I call her Snoopy. My oldest is Angel Marie, but I sometimes call her Angie. I found out my Aunt used to call me Pooter Anne when I was little. Mary Anne Cook Frankfort, Indiana http://www.geocities.com/grannysfunpages/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patsy" <patsygal@hotmail.com> To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:30 PM Subject: Re: [BSChat] Nicknames and other names > Talking about nicknames..... > > My husband was "Clarence", Jr. > > --neither "Sr.' nor 'Jr.' went by Clarence..... > > Sr., who had a beautiful head full of black, wavy hair--was somehow dubbed "Baldy" by his mother-in-law. (There MUST have been a story behind this nickname.) > > Later Sr. adopted the nickname of "Tony" (how? why?--all unknown by me). > > Jr. on the other hand, was nicknamed "Snookie" by his maternal grandmother (same one who nicknamed Sr., "Baldy"). (He always wished it had of been "Butch", "Bud" or something more masculine.) However he was not able to outgrow or adopt another name (like his dad) and we were calling him Snookie until he died at age 49 in 1987. > > When we had our family, we named our oldest son Gary Michael and our youngest was named Gregory Scott. I was going to call each of them by their first name (duh) but my aunt loved the name Michael and so she called Gary by both names. We started out by calling the younger one Gregory, but for some reason, after he started growing, he didn't seem to be a "Gregory"...so we started calling him "Scott", which seemed to be more fitting. > > Gary, not being able to talk clearly and because *he* had two names, started calling Scott--"Cott--Cott"-- > > As Scott grew and because he couldn't say Gary Michael--left off the Gary and called his brother, "Michael" (my aunt had won!) > > However, everyone in our family still call Gary by "Gary" except for Scott who still calls him "Michael". When Cyndi (Cynthia) had her daughter, Seana, for some reason unknown to any of us....Seana automatically called Gary, "Uncle Michael" and like I said, Scott was the only one to call him by that name. Now all the nieces and nephews refer to Gary as "Uncle Michael" and he's Gary to the rest of us. (confused yet?) > > One day a new friend asked how many sons did I have--she thought I had at least four because of all the names. > > Scott named his first-born "Gregory Scott"....but he is 'definitely' a Gregory, so there is no confusion in their names or which one we are talking to when we call "Greg" or "Gregory" or just plain "Scott". <Grin> > > My daughter had to go and make matters worse by marrying another "Gary Michael".....now this Gary is "Uncle Gary" to the kids but the adults refer to him as Gary J. > > Even *I* had a "Grandma" nickname. I had a miniature dachshund named Pokie and Seana's other grandmother had a cat named Muffin....to distinguish between the grandmothers--she would call us "Grandma Pokie" or "Grandma Muffin"--however, when she was with only one of us, we were plain "Grandma". Now, I have Pokie's granddaughter, whose name is Shadow, but has only been called Puppy all of her life....she is now 14 and now my great granddaughters call me Grandma Puppy........ > > Hope this was not too much confusion.... > Grandma Puppy (aka Patsy; aka Patricia) in the Golden State Wine Country > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribe from the list: > Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsub scribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >