Thanks T.M. I also notice the Stasia list which was obvious but had never run across the Anty spelling and last time I queried about it dozens of people had to relate about the favorite relative bieng called Auntie so in so. Any idea about the location of the towns mentioned relative to Gorey/Castletown ???? Edd ----- Original Message ----- From: "T.M. Sommers" <tmsommers2@gmail.com> To: <irl-wexford@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 6:37 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-WEXFORD] Address locations and female names > edd73 wrote: >> >> Also I am still very curious of the listings with female nicknames, most >> of >> which are very obvious, but the ones listed as "Anty" that are quite >> numerous have me baffled, The only plausible response last time was >> Anastasia, so I hope someone has a listing of female nicknames that can >> confirm this. > > Anty is definitely the diminuitive for Anastasia (however spelled). > > -- > T.M. Sommers -- tmsommers2@gmail.com -- ab2sb -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 2698 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message