Emma could be her real name, I have a Grand Aunt named Emma Sheppard at birth, can't remember her married name at present. Emma could also be short for EMMALINE. Edith "Frisky0623" <frisky0623@aol.com> wrote in message news:20020112111225.15504.00004357@mb-ci.aol.com... > I can say that i have a daughter names Emily and we call her Emma alot. I don't > know if this is normal but we use it. > no junk

Edith Gomez <edithkbg@home.com> wrote: > Emma could be her real name, I have a Grand Aunt named Emma Sheppard at > birth, can't remember her married name at present. Emma could also be short > for EMMALINE. > > Edith Thanks folks, The thing is that my grandmother (now 89) recalls her grandmother's name as "Emily". But an 1881 UK census record matches the family perfectly (father's name, wife's maiden name, four children with the right names, right town, right dates, etc.) but the wife is listed as "Emma" instead of Emily. I believe this is the right census record (too many other points match up for it *not* to be). It's entirely likely that my grandmother is not remembering the name correctly (seems more likely than an error on the census taker's part), or it could be that one name is/was a variation of the other at the time. Mark -- Mark Morley, British Columbia, Canada mark@kinweb.org Researching: MORLEY, SANDERSON, GREGORY, STOCKMAN, FRANCIS, LOCKHART, DENYER CAVE, STEPHENSON, WUERCH, WIESE, ... and hundreds more ...