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Offline rutht22000

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Nutty Wild(e)
« on: Friday 31 July 15 13:46 BST (UK) »
The above lady had a baseborn daughter Anne in 1802 in Happisburgh, Norfolk

As its not your normal name I wonder if anyone has come across it before.

She was christened as Nutty Wild in 1777 in Happisburgh (daughter of Francis and Mary) so it doesn't look like its a nickname.

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Re: Nutty Wild(e)
« Reply #1 on: Friday 31 July 15 15:11 BST (UK) »
Certainly not your normal name.  Do you think it was supposed to be Netty like for Henrietta.
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Re: Nutty Wild(e)
« Reply #2 on: Friday 31 July 15 15:20 BST (UK) »
It's unusual but not unique. FindMyPast lists 69 baptisms for the name Nutty, 56 burials and 51 marriages.

A few of them have the alternative name Ursula recorded in the register. If you google Nutty Ursula there are quite a few references to Ursulas whose nickname was Nutty.
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Re: Nutty Wild(e)
« Reply #3 on: Friday 31 July 15 15:25 BST (UK) »
Nutty, s. A term of endearment; also, a nickname for Ursula.

From Thomas Wright's "Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English" 1857
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