Nancy was a nickname for Ann/Anne Mary Slack Maynard North Georgia Mountains In a message dated 11/6/2009 3:34:28 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, cfitchett@paradise.net.nz writes: In Scotland I have also come across Sadie for Sarah, Agnes was often Nan or Nancy, Margaret may become Peggy. I too, have come across Polly for Mary. Minnie can be either Marion or Jemima (possibly also Wilhelmina). Jemima can also be "Mima". One of the stranger (to me) name variants was Grizel/Grace. I'm not sure this is so much a nickname as a change of fashion - Grizel being the older form, and Grace more modern. One of my greatgrandmother's sisters was baptised in the 1820s as Grizel but at her marriage and in all census records was known as Grace. On 5/11/2009, at 9:00 PM, midlothian-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:31:35 EST > From: MMayn93990@aol.com > Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Scottish nick names > To: midlothian@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <bbb.5d3b89c8.38239307@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Also, a woman named Ellen was called Helen. > > I don't know if this was true in Scotland, but in the US Sally was a > nickname for Sarah > > Mary Slack Maynard > North Georgia Mountains > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIDLOTHIAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message