Re: Isabella - I have an ancestor who went be "Belle" and "Bella" as well! At 01:05 AM 3/26/2010, you wrote: >Hello Karen, >Thank you for responding so quickly -- and with a similar situation. >That's helpful! I'd love to hear from any others about experiences >with variations in women's given names in records. Besides the usual >spelling variants. My Isabel is also Isabelle, Isabella and Isobella >is records. Those I understand... it's the change to Eliz. or >Elizabeth that is confusing. >Barbara > > >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:32:14 +1100 >From: Karen Hodges <rowantreek@gmail.com> >Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] Women with two given names in Shropshire >To: eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com > >Hi > >I have a sister to an ancestor in Lancashire during the mid to late >1800's who is listed alternatively as Isabelle and Elizabeth. I >think the two names were used like Mary is to Maria, meaning the same >person. > >Karen >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Barbara Petura ><barbara_petura@yahoo.com> wrote: >Hello, >I am familiar -- from my German genealogy -- with women who had two >or more given names and used them alternately in different records. >My favorite example is Anna Margretha Groth who married John >Nicholas Luehr. She was called Anna in some records, Margretha in >others, but I finally confirmed these references were all to the >same woman, my 2nd great-grandmother. > >My question is whether that same situation occurred with women in >Shropshire in the 18th and 19th centuries. I have a specific puzzle >that I am trying to solve.... involving an ancestor recorded as >Isabel sometimes and Elizabeth in others! > >Barbara > > > > > >REMEMBER - The question you are asking may have already been answered. >Threaded Archives at - >http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/Archives > >Searchable Archives at - >http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message