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Offline Ebor337

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Fanny = Frances???
« on: Tuesday 30 September 08 18:42 BST (UK) »
Am i right in thinking that Fanny will be short for Frances?

Got a Fanny on the marriage certificate to Stephen, but then on their prospective childrens births on the parish register it says Stephen and Frances. Would the 2 be interchangeable?

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Re: Fanny = Frances???
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 30 September 08 18:44 BST (UK) »
Hi Ebor

In my experience I have usually found that Fanny was a shortened version of Frances, or at least in my family tree.

Kerry  :)
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 30 September 08 18:53 BST (UK) »

My great grandmother was registered as Frances, baptised as Fanny, married as Frances, and on childrens' certificates the name she used sometimes Fanny, sometimes Frances  ::)

Susan  :)
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Somerset: Bailey; Lewis
Warwickshire: (Alcester, Henley in Arden) Lewis; Casey/Keasey
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Re: Fanny = Frances???
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 30 September 08 18:55 BST (UK) »
Fantastic, cheers guys. :)

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Re: Fanny = Frances???
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 05 October 08 20:42 BST (UK) »
No! No!  My Great aunt,  died 1982,  aged 90,  was christened Fanny Gertrude and she was always called Aunty Fanny!!!

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Re: Fanny = Frances???
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 05 October 08 23:56 BST (UK) »
I have an ancestor who was baptised as Fanny, married as Fanny and was Fanny in all the censuses.  She had a daughter called Frances Jane and the name has continued down the generations as Frances. I have never doubted that Fanny is a shortened version of Frances.

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Re: Fanny = Frances???
« Reply #6 on: Monday 06 October 08 00:11 BST (UK) »
I have a Fanny in my tree also. She was baptised as Frances and died aged seventeen as Fanny.
Also in OZ Fanny is another name for I can`t say on here. :-X ;D

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JOHN- Pembrokeshire Wales.  FREEMAN -England?
MEDLICOT -Monmouthshire Wales.
ISAAC -Gloucestershire and Liverpool.[Toxteth Park] SNOW- England .Convict. FRAZER- England.Convict.
DEAL -Ireland .Convict.
KEMP -Saint Mary Cray Kent.Eynsford Wilmington England.Convict.
BLACKBERRY -Whitechapel .Convict. CONDON -alias
DUFFY-Brighton England. Convict.
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Re: Fanny = Frances???
« Reply #7 on: Monday 06 October 08 00:34 BST (UK) »
Hi

Fanny is also a name in its own right. A quick check of FreeBMD shows that in 1870 alone there were 4210 births registered with the first name Fanny.

Andy

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Re: Fanny = Frances???
« Reply #8 on: Monday 06 October 08 02:23 BST (UK) »
Hi, I had a lot of trouble treating a Fanny and a Frances as the same person,later (as per census and help from this site) finding out they were sisters .Fanny was a few years older than Frances.
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