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