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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Topic started by: Seaton Smithy on Friday 25 October 19 06:37 BST (UK)
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Hi all.
Is 'Jeep' used as a nickname in Canada?
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I have never heard the word Jeep used as a nickname in Canada. Have you found someone with that name? People sometimes say "Jeepers" as an expression...and, of course, Jeep is a type/brand of vehicle.
RK
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I've never heard of it either. Having said that, I have heard some very 'different' nicknames, so
I guess anything is possible.
DB
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Thanks for the replies.
I am trying to find my family connection to someone who shows her paternal grandfather as Jeep Groves with no other details, and I wondered if Jeep was short for something or a common nickname.
I have previously worked out the identity of Shorty Edwards with the help of lovely people from this forum.
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Eugene the Jeep was a character in 1930's Popeye cartoons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_the_Jeep
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Thanks, Shaun - I'd forgotten that. Potentially the right era.
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Whereabouts did this person show her grandfather as “Jeep”? For example was it taken from an official record or certificate, from an online tree, or somewhere else?
Is that the only one reference to him with the name “Jeep”?
Could you contact her and ask her if she knows what his real name is?
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I am trying to find my family connection to someone who shows her paternal grandfather as Jeep Groves with no other details, and I wondered if Jeep was short for something or a common nickname.
Do you have details for his wife/children, where/when born, Country & County as a place to begin?
Annie
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Thanks, Ruskie & Rosinish
The only reference is as a name in her tree which she has online at a couple of places. It does not include any more details about him or any details of his wife.
I made contact some time ago but that was not fruitful.
Sean has given me a good clue to work with.
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I have never heard the word Jeep used as a nickname in Canada. Have you found someone with that name? People sometimes say "Jeepers" as an expression...and, of course, Jeep is a type/brand of vehicle.
RK
But the word jeep was not used for the G.P.W vehicle (dependant on which of the three stories you believe ) did not start being used until 1941
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My cousin's middle name is Jeep (chosen by her Danish father after the vehicle) but her grandmother pronounced it as 'Yeep.' Her father's nickname in the family was Eep (from a story about 3 boys called Bjorg, Palle & Eep).
Could it be a nickname for someone with the initials J.P.?
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If it's a 'nickname', I've never understood people who use such in family trees unless in brackets accompanied by their birth name.
Annie
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If it's a 'nickname', I've never understood people who use such in family trees unless in brackets accompanied by their birth name.
Annie
Quite often even close relatives only know a person by their nickname and may not realise the name on birth certificate, etc. is actually something else.
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Quite often even close relatives only know a person by their nickname and may not realise the name on birth certificate, etc. is actually something else.
I agree - throw in uncertain parentage, parental alienation or even early death of a parent, and all you have to go on is what someone from the other side of the family remembers about the grandparent you never met.
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Have you contacted the person who has “Jeep” in their tree to ask if they know any more about him?
Is he known as “Jeep” on any official documents, or is that a name that family used for him?
What name does he give on his marriage certificate?
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As I replied above, there is just a name on a tree and I have contacted the tree owner.
I am not trying to be difficult, but there really isn't any more information at this time.
Based on Sean's suggestion I will explore the possibility of Jeep as a nickname for someone named Eugene growing up in the 1930s to see where that takes me.
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Could it be a nickname for someone with the initials J.P.?
Thanks, that's another really good option to explore.
It also could be a corruption rather than a nickname.
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...or even G P soundex Jee(p)?
Anything worth consideration.
Annie
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According to the online tree which mentions “Jeep”, does it say who he married?
If so, armed with her name and his surname, maybe you could locate the marriage, and purchase the certificate.
Depending on location, dates, etc it may give you his proper name as well as his age, father’s name and occupation, which may help you work out his relationship with your family.
Other official documents such as their children’s birth and marriage certificates may give his birth name too.
Does the online tree give a date and place for his birth? Have you looked for births for X Groves in that place and time frame?
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Rusky,
The only info. available on said tree from Reply #3 his name is Jeeps Grove i.e. no other info. available.
I asked for a Country & County as the world is a big place i.e. some idea would help but seems our OP has absolutely no other info. to go on...however, where/when the child of Jeeps was born would be a start if known?
Annie
Add...Reading between the lines it may be an illegitimate birth & 'Jeeps' being the reputed father?
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Yes Annie, I understand that the OP doesn’t know anything about Jeep, but surely Jeep can’t exist in isolation in the online tree.
If Jeep is the tree owner’s grandfather, I thought she might have recorded her grandmother’s name, their marriage, their children’s names. Something more. Anything? .... Even a small snippet of information about other family might help find out more about Jeep.
As you say, a country, county and time frame might also help.
Add...Reading between the lines it may be an illegitimate birth & 'Jeeps' being the reputed father?
That makes sense Annie. It would explain the lack of information about this man. :)
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Can I ask which website this persons family tree appears on please.
John
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I asked for a Country & County as the world is a big place i.e. some idea would help but seems our OP has absolutely no other info. to go on...however, where/when the child of Jeeps was born would be a start if known?
Sorry, I didn't realise there had been further discussion.
The country is Canada - I put that in my first post.
The person named Jeep is the shown as the paternal grandfather on a tree at Ancestry and possibly born in the late 1920s or in the 1930s. The father is marked as living and there is no grandmother shown. The same person has trees at MyHeritage and FTDNA with no details of the father's side.