I want to add my two cents here...I have several Beadie Ann's in my family...born around 1835-1850. On some census it is spelled 'Bidy" and "Biddy" for my grgrandmother, Beadie Ann Martin.I think "Beadie" was a popular name back then. I too...knew it to mean 'very small" . My brother in law was caled "Bit" because the siblings called him "little Bit " when he was a baby.Nothing to do with his name. So it is probably any of this, but I feel the name "Biddy" was the name that was popular...spelled however some peson spelled it. Stella

I think you get an A on an aswer. This Biddy name got me. Im going to bury her in 1908 in Knoxville. Thanks to All Ashley ----- Original Message ----- From: <Cagle2002@webtv.net> To: <cagle@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 7:50 PM Subject: Re: [CAGLE] biddy >I want to add my two cents here...I have several Beadie Ann's in my > family...born around 1835-1850. On some census it is spelled 'Bidy" and > "Biddy" for my grgrandmother, Beadie Ann Martin.I think "Beadie" was a > popular name back then. I too...knew it to mean 'very small" . My > brother in law was caled "Bit" because the siblings called him "little > Bit " when he was a baby.Nothing to do with his name. So it is probably > any of this, but I feel the name "Biddy" was the name that was > popular...spelled however some peson spelled it. Stella > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CAGLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >