At 11:43 AM 1/22/05, BPBakaley@aol.com wrote: >Thanks to all who helped on the nickname Pack. > Here is another item - Lena. My late uncle was married to a women known as >Lena. He died before I was born and so I don't know much about this >couple. I >assume that like my uncle, Lena was born in Ireland. Any help would be >appreciated. I have in my family an Ellen (nickname Lena) Cavanagh, who married Thomas Condon around 1879 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. Both had parents who were born in Ireland. So, Lena could be a nickname for any female name ending in -line or -lina or -lene or -lena, but it was also used for Ellen in this case. Geralyn Wood Barry