Good evening, Maybe a simple question but could Jeanie be a nickname for some other first name? On a 1906 passenger list for the S.S. Astoria from Glasgow to New York I can clearly identify my 2x great uncle, James B(urns) Allan but can not understand the writing for his wife's name. They arrived in New York, with Montreal as their ultimate destination. They had 4 children (James B., John S., Elsie and Andrew T.) in Canada. I later found he and the children in the 1930 United States Census with a new wife named Matilda. Heather in cold Montreal

Jeanie would be for the name Jean I should think. Have lots of them called that in my family although their proper names were Jean. Jessie ----- Original Message ----- From: "HLeBblanc" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 5:23 PM Subject: [SCT-EDINBURGH] Jeanie - short for what name? Good evening, Maybe a simple question but could Jeanie be a nickname for some other first name? On a 1906 passenger list for the S.S. Astoria from Glasgow to New York I can clearly identify my 2x great uncle, James B(urns) Allan but can not understand the writing for his wife's name. They arrived in New York, with Montreal as their ultimate destination. They had 4 children (James B., John S., Elsie and Andrew T.) in Canada. I later found he and the children in the 1930 United States Census with a new wife named Matilda. Heather in cold Montreal ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It may be that Jeanie was her "home" name and had no relation to her christened name at all. With a strong culture of naming traditions, many families named their children after the appropriate ancestor (think of all the Margarets and James :-)) but actually had pet names for them at home. My grandmother was always called Jeanie at home but her name was Olive. Her sister was always called Daisy although her name was Myra. So... marriage registration? children's birth registrations? Best, Bev HLeBblanc <[email protected]> wrote: Good evening, Maybe a simple question but could Jeanie be a nickname for some other first name? On a 1906 passenger list for the S.S. Astoria from Glasgow to New York I can clearly identify my 2x great uncle, James B(urns) Allan but can not understand the writing for his wife's name. They arrived in New York, with Montreal as their ultimate destination. They had 4 children (James B., John S., Elsie and Andrew T.) in Canada. I later found he and the children in the 1930 United States Census with a new wife named Matilda. Heather in cold Montreal ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message