Mary, I too have a "Lilly" in my family and her Christian name was "Lillian", so that is an option also. Good luck. Terrae -------------- Original message -------------- From: Mary Simpson <mary@msimpson.demon.co.uk> > Think that I may well have asked this question before - but still > have not resolved the puzzle. According to family - father, uncles, > aunts, cousins etc etc, one of our Cork g.grandmothers went by the name > of " Lily ". But I can find no trace of this name in the records - > so it must, of course, be a pet name or nickname, so what would the " > real " name be??? This would have been about early to mid 1800s. > > The only contenders in the parish records would have been a Catherine > or Norry , would Catherine have transmogrified Catherine - Caitlin - > Lily? > > I would have thought that " Lily " may have been Ellen or Elizabeth, > but these names don't fit with the records. And the children only had > the usual Cork names - Johanna, Mary, Margaret, Norah etc. > > Anybody got any ideas? Has anyone else had this problem? > > Mary > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message