Hi All This lady is connected to me by marriage and took me an age to work out what her first name, it was at a BOWERS family reunion I organised for a visiting American cousin, chatting to an elderly distant cousin who had met Aunt Ringy/Ringa she told me how she got her unusual name. Aunt Ringy/Ringa married my GG Unlce Richard Joseph BOWERS he had immigrated to Omaha Nebraska. I first found them on the 1901 census in Scunthorpe and later subsequent records one of which she was recorded as Lorringa and another Victoria S.P. as well as these below. 1880 Iowa Sirringbetam Beveness 1885 Iowa A. Bevenies 1889 Miss Victoria A Beveness Nebraska City Directory 1892 Beverness, Victoria A, Miss 1893 Ringa Benerness marriage IGI [Ringa Beverness on original marriage cert] Douglas Co Nebraska 1901 Victoria Bowers 1911 Sirringa Bowers 2 May 1911 Mrs Richard [crossed out then written] Bridget [Ringer] Bowers [ships manifest] My distant cousin says Aunt Ringy was born aboard the ship carrying her family from the UK [her father came from Schleswig Holstein] to America and named after the ship 'Seringapatam' though evidence seems to point to Aunt Ringy being born in Iowa Davenport.