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Hannah/Nancy/Ann???
« on: Monday 15 December 08 14:57 GMT (UK) »
According to IGI all these names are interchangeable. Is this the case?

Its just I'm looking for a Hannah, and a Nancy has turned up in the right place at the right time with the right surname.

Is it a safe assumption to presume that this is the right person? Would someone be christened Nancy, only to use Hannah for the rest of her life (marriage, census, death)

For reference its Hannah Hauling b abt 1787 Ashchurch or Aston Upon B????, Gloucestershire.

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Re: Hannah/Nancy/Ann???
« Reply #1 on: Monday 15 December 08 15:01 GMT (UK) »
Hi

I know from my own experience that Hannah and Ann are certainly interchangeable. 

I thought Nancy was another name for Margaret though, although I could be wrong and I have not come across that being used for Hannah before.

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Re: Hannah/Nancy/Ann???
« Reply #2 on: Monday 15 December 08 15:03 GMT (UK) »
Agree that Hannah and Ann/Annie are interchangeable.

I had an aunt whose given name was Annie, who was always known as Nancy.

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Re: Hannah/Nancy/Ann???
« Reply #3 on: Monday 15 December 08 17:07 GMT (UK) »
My mother -in -law was  christened Annie but was always known as Nancy or Nance.

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Re: Hannah/Nancy/Ann???
« Reply #4 on: Monday 15 December 08 17:10 GMT (UK) »
Haven't heard of Nancy being used for Margaret before but certainly Hannah/Anna/Ann/Anne/Annie/Nancy/Nan/Agnes are all interchangeable.
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Re: Hannah/Nancy/Ann???
« Reply #5 on: Monday 15 December 08 17:25 GMT (UK) »
I've never heard of Nancy being used for Margaret  but agree with all the others. In the Yorkshire Dales and Westmorland, Nanny was another variation.

(Swallows and Amazons - it was Peggy who was really Margaret, not Nancy! ;) ;) ;D)

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Re: Hannah/Nancy/Ann???
« Reply #6 on: Monday 15 December 08 17:30 GMT (UK) »
Sorry I stand corrected  ::) ;D

Actually Nancy was Ruth in Swallows and Amazons, so that wasn't where I had heard that Nancy was Margaret  ;D ;)

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Re: Hannah/Nancy/Ann???
« Reply #7 on: Monday 15 December 08 17:39 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: kerryb on Monday 15 December 08 17:30 GMT (UK)
Sorry I stand corrected  ::) ;D

Actually Nancy was Ruth in Swallows and Amazons, so that wasn't where I had heard that Nancy was Margaret  ;D ;)

Kerry

I think it was done just to confuse future genealogists! ;D  ;D ;D Can you imagine her great grandchildren trying to work that one out?
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Re: Hannah/Nancy/Ann???
« Reply #8 on: Monday 15 December 08 17:48 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: aghadowey on Monday 15 December 08 17:10 GMT (UK)
Haven't heard of Nancy being used for Margaret before but certainly Hannah/Anna/Ann/Anne/Annie/Nancy/Nan/Agnes are all interchangeable.

In all the (Latin) catholic registers that I've seen, all the rest get recorded as Anna/Annae but Agnes is Agnes/Agnetis.

There was one case of a child called Maggie being recorded as Agnes but I presume the priest misheard the name as all our other Margarets are Margarita/Margaritae.

I have also seen a few instances of Nancy as Nancia but in most cases in my family (and there were quite a few) Nancy was recorded as Anna.
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