>Cattarina is the Croatian form of Catherine , it later became Katarina shortened to Kata is some cases. When people moved to English speaking countries some used Katherine or Katrina. Regards Tania on 5/13/02 6:32 PM, Sauter, Vicki L. at vicki.sauter@umsl.edu wrote: > > > I don't know if Catherine is Croatian generally, but my husband's > > grandparents came from Croatia and named their youngest daughter Katherine > > (with a K not a C). So, at least some people think it is. > > > > vicki sauter > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mary Hegarty [mailto:mhegarty@cybertron.com] > > Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 6:23 PM > > To: CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [CROATIA-L] first name > > > > > > On my grandmother, Marie Fanta's passenger record her mother's name is > > listed as, what looks like Cath. Pavlekovic. I was wondering about the Cath. > > It looks like an abbreviation for Catherine but that doesn't sound like a > > Croatian name. Does anyone have any thoughts on what it could be? > > Thanks! > > Mary Hegarty > Thanks Vicki. I'm going to the FHC tomorrow so every bit of information > helps to narrow the pool. > Mary > >

on 5/13/02 8:11 PM, whswan@ihug.co.nz at whswan@ihug.co.nz wrote: >> Cattarina is the Croatian form of Catherine , it later became Katarina > shortened to Kata is some cases. When people moved to English speaking > countries some used Katherine or Katrina. > > Regards Tania > > > on 5/13/02 6:32 PM, Sauter, Vicki L. at vicki.sauter@umsl.edu wrote: >> >>> I don't know if Catherine is Croatian generally, but my husband's >>> grandparents came from Croatia and named their youngest daughter Katherine >>> (with a K not a C). So, at least some people think it is. >>> >>> vicki sauter >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Mary Hegarty [mailto:mhegarty@cybertron.com] >>> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 6:23 PM >>> To: CROATIA-L@rootsweb.com >>> Subject: [CROATIA-L] first name >>> >>> >>> On my grandmother, Marie Fanta's passenger record her mother's name is >>> listed as, what looks like Cath. Pavlekovic. I was wondering about the Cath. >>> It looks like an abbreviation for Catherine but that doesn't sound like a >>> Croatian name. Does anyone have any thoughts on what it could be? >>> Thanks! >>> Mary Hegarty >> Thanks Vicki. I'm going to the FHC tomorrow so every bit of information >> helps to narrow the pool. >> Mary >> >> > Thank you everyone for information on Catherine and all the variations! Mary