Hi List Thanks for all the messages on- and off-list. It looks like Minnie as a pet name for Mary is really well established. Most of the international Names websites seem to ignore this link so I wonder if it is generally a UK & Irish usage? Ideas welcome! -- Best wishes Ray ********************************************************** >From Ray Hennessy Forenames website: www.whatsinaname.net Preferred Email address: ray@whatsinaname.net Hints for Scotland's People at http://bit.ly/WIAN-SCP **********************************************************

MARY May Minnie Molly Polly Mimi Marsie Mamie Marie....We didn't know Aunt Marie was Mary until we read her obituary! And I found several websites that listed Minnie as a nickname for Mary. Mary (no nickname) McCanney Finle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Hennessy" <ray@whatsinaname.net> To: <countycork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:04 AM Subject: [CO CORK] Minnie as a pet name for Mary > Hi List > > Thanks for all the messages on- and off-list. > > It looks like Minnie as a pet name for Mary is really well > established. Most of the international Names websites seem to ignore > this link so I wonder if it is generally a UK & Irish usage? > > Ideas welcome! > > -- > Best wishes > > Ray > > ********************************************************** >>From Ray Hennessy > Forenames website: www.whatsinaname.net > Preferred Email address: ray@whatsinaname.net > Hints for Scotland's People at http://bit.ly/WIAN-SCP > ********************************************************** > Check out the Ireland GenWeb County Cork Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcor/ > It is a good place to find information related to your family research. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COUNTYCORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

...and the Scottish "Mae" which was my great great grandmother's nickname. Here's an old photograph of her that I restored: http://www.pbase.com/image/39366975 Her daughter Mary was said to have been the spitting image of her as a young girl. Two restored photographs of Mary can be seen here: http://www.pbase.com/cjmax/image/40816166 http://www.pbase.com/cjmax/image/40820277 Good hunting, Cliff. Johnston "May the best you've ever seen, Be the worst you'll ever see;" from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Finley" <marmfin@verizon.net> To: <countycork@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:17 AM Subject: Re: [CO CORK] Minnie as a pet name for Mary > MARY > > May > Minnie > Molly > Polly > Mimi > Marsie > Mamie > Marie....We didn't know Aunt Marie was Mary until we read her obituary! > > And I found several websites that listed Minnie as a nickname for Mary. > > Mary (no nickname) McCanney Finle > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ray Hennessy" <ray@whatsinaname.net> > To: <countycork@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 6:04 AM > Subject: [CO CORK] Minnie as a pet name for Mary > > >> Hi List >> >> Thanks for all the messages on- and off-list. >> >> It looks like Minnie as a pet name for Mary is really well >> established. Most of the international Names websites seem to ignore >> this link so I wonder if it is generally a UK & Irish usage? >> >> Ideas welcome! >> >> -- >> Best wishes >> >> Ray >> >> ********************************************************** >>>From Ray Hennessy >> Forenames website: www.whatsinaname.net >> Preferred Email address: ray@whatsinaname.net >> Hints for Scotland's People at http://bit.ly/WIAN-SCP >> ********************************************************** >> Check out the Ireland GenWeb County Cork Website at: >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcor/ >> It is a good place to find information related to your family research. >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> COUNTYCORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > Check out the Ireland GenWeb County Cork Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlcor/ > It is a good place to find information related to your family research. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COUNTYCORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

1) 2010/1/11 Mary Finley <marmfin@verizon.net> wrote: > MARY -->> May Minnie Molly Polly Mimi Marsie Mamie > Marie....We didn't know Aunt Marie was Mary until we read her obituary! > > And I found several websites that listed Minnie as a nickname for Mary. ________________________________________ 2) 2010/1/11 Cliff. Johnston <moments-in-time@comcast.net> wrote: > ...and the Scottish "Mae" which was my great great grandmother's nickname. > > Here's an old photograph of her that I restored... ________________________________________ Thanks Mary & Cliff 1. The others I know, Mary, but Marsie is a new one on me. I suspect this is a family variant. The only link I can find on the internet suggests it's a Latin name meaning "martial" or a French name of unknown meaning. 2. Cliff: Mae is in the books [what do they know?!!] as a pet name for Maria and it obviously is equally valid for Mary so I've added that link, and one or two others when I thought about it, ta. Your g-g-gm looks a fierce biddy. Almost identical to our own Grannie Willox [my wife's g-g-gm] who, having had an "eventful" young life, became the arbiter & guardian of the family's morals in later life. An indomitable Aberdonian matriarch! The younger Mary has the same eyes but that may be due to having to pose for seconds at a time. A great job of restoration Cliff. Thanks for the inputs, folks. The more the better. -- Best wishes Ray ********************************************************** >From Ray Hennessy Forenames website: www.whatsinaname.net Preferred Email address: ray@whatsinaname.net Hints for Scotland's People at http://bit.ly/WIAN-SCP **********************************************************