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Scotland / Re: When does a nickname become a wrong name?
« on: Friday 22 March 24 14:50 GMT (UK) »Just a thought I've been pondering recently. The matriarch of my tree is recorded as Margaret, Bridget and Betsy. I have other evidence to support they're all the same person, but with legal names today it just confuses me how there could be such a discrepancy. She was from Ireland originally so perhaps Margaret was her catholic name. Her mother's name was Bridget so that makes sense, but where does Betsy come from? Anybody else have multiple names attributed to the same person?
An aunt I knew all my life as Betty and assumed she was Elizabeth was actually a Bridget.
More importantly I think your Bridget (not the one i've mentined) might be a connection to me.
Agnes McKenzie possibly her grand daughter was my great grandmother.