What is Minnie short for??

[Antdamm]

Well, i have found one or two of her siblings - wanted to get her out of the way.

Hadn't thought of checking deaths - don't know why I didn't think of that? Will give it  ago

[Hard_Yards]

Hadn't thought of checking deaths - don't know why I didn't think of that?

I think it's our natural disposition, to look amongst the living.  It's easy to get caught up in that, and forget about life expectancy (particularly for children) in the 19th Century. 

I spent "ages" looking for a GGF in any census past 1871 - until I considered the prospect that I was looking in the wrong place.  Indeed he'd died at age 40, in the same year his son (my GF) was born.  And I certainly wasn't expecting that.  He'd been fit enough earlier in the year !

Often I think we'd all benefit from someone else asking the "what if?" question.

[Romilly]

My Grandmother was 'Beatrice Minnie,' (Born 1902) and the 'Minnie' wasn't short for anything! Just a name in itself

Incidentally, the name Minnie has had something of a resurgence down here in the south...I know of several so named locally. (I always thought that it derived from Minniehaha, - in the Hiawatha poem).

Romilly.

[youngtug]

My gtgrandfathers second wifes name was Minnie, not short for anything, a name in itself.

[Antdamm]

I know that Minnie is a name itself. But there is no birth record for a Minnie Taylor born in the whole of Scotland between 1884-1891.

So her name must be something else....

[youngtug]

If you only know her as Minnie you do have a problem. I  think the suggestion about checking deaths is a very good one if you cannot find her after 1891. Is there any chance of looking at the parish records?

[LizzieW]

My husband's mother, grandmother and some aunts were all called Minnie and that was their given name, no short for anything.

Lizzie

[Skoosh]

Antdamm,  in Scotland Minnie can be Marion.     Skoosh.

[Rosa Xanthina]

I had a great aunt who was Minnie as a young child, then Mary and Marion as an adult.   I have never been able to find her birth.  There was a Scottish connection so maybe her actual name was something completely different!