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Re: IS THE NAME CISS OR CISSIE A REAL NAME
« Reply #9 on: Friday 05 October 18 17:49 BST (UK) »
Ciss is often a pet name for a girl in a family of boys = "sister"
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Re: IS THE NAME CISS OR CISSIE A REAL NAME
« Reply #10 on: Friday 05 October 18 17:50 BST (UK) »
In England and Wales Cissie is certainly a real name, there are thousands registered as first or middle names, I imagine it would also be a proper name in Ireland.
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Re: IS THE NAME CISS OR CISSIE A REAL NAME
« Reply #11 on: Friday 05 October 18 17:54 BST (UK) »
Quote from: geraldine96 on Friday 05 October 18 15:04 BST (UK)
I am looking for a Cissie Roche, possibly born in the 1870's or early 1880's. She was part of the volunteers in the 1916 Rising.
She is listed in the back pages of Helen Ashdown's book about the 1916 'Rising' in Enniscorthy ' her residence is given as Lower Ferns This book isn't available anywhere in England. I wonder if there are any Rootschatters around Enniscorthy that have the book and can tell me about Cissie Roche.
I'd like to know if Cissie is her real name. Is there any information giving details of her Roche family (location, siblings) and what she did as a member of Cumannn na Mban.
There may be a copy in the Enniscorthy Library.....any help would be really appreciated. i am in England so can't look up anything re the book. Any information about the name 'Cissie' could help me trace birth, marriage records. Thankyou. Geraldine96

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Re: IS THE NAME CISS OR CISSIE A REAL NAME
« Reply #12 on: Friday 05 October 18 18:00 BST (UK) »
Helen Ashdown, author   'The Last Surrender - County Wexford 1916'
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Re: IS THE NAME CISS OR CISSIE A REAL NAME
« Reply #13 on: Friday 05 October 18 18:14 BST (UK) »
I think can also be for catherine as my grandfathers second wife was cissie and that her real name.  That was in scotland so maybe similar in ireland
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Re: IS THE NAME CISS OR CISSIE A REAL NAME
« Reply #14 on: Friday 05 October 18 20:40 BST (UK) »
Another vote from me for Cecilia - my grandmother's name but she was always known as Cis or Cissie - her father listed her as Cissie aged 14 on the 1901 census.
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Re: IS THE NAME CISS OR CISSIE A REAL NAME
« Reply #15 on: Friday 05 October 18 20:54 BST (UK) »
It's Cicely for me! ;D

My maternal grandmother was named Cicely - and always called Ciss or Cissie by her peers.
Mum had Cicely as a middle name, and it's been passed on to my granddaughter; also as a middle name.
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Re: IS THE NAME CISS OR CISSIE A REAL NAME
« Reply #16 on: Friday 05 October 18 21:01 BST (UK) »
My great aunt was called Kezia which, according to my mother she hated so was always called Cissie, even on the census.

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Re: IS THE NAME CISS OR CISSIE A REAL NAME
« Reply #17 on: Friday 05 October 18 21:08 BST (UK) »
I have also seen "Cis" as a shorten version of Francisca.

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