Hi Gus I have a Mary Ann in my tree, she was always known as Polly. HTH Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gus Tysoe" <gustysoe@tiscali.co.uk> To: <warwick@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 4:24 PM Subject: [WAR] A Nickname - and Coventry Street Name [continued] > Many thanks to Jacqui & Carole for telling me that my guessed reading was > actually right! [I don't have an A-Z of Coventry, and felt that any street > with 38 or more Courts would be likely to've been demolished in a slum > clearance decades ago!] > > But this Family is continuing to cause 'difficulties' - because on > comparing > the result with the 1881, they'd seem to've changed one of their > daughters' > names... > > In 1871 their youngest child was Mary Ann, 1. She's absent from the 1881 - > but there *is* an 11-year-old Polly. > > Is/was Polly a traditional abbreviation or nickname for Mary Ann? > > Gus > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.28/1123 - Release Date: > 10/11/2007 15:47 > >