Help need to decipher baptism name!

[jaylay]

Can anyone help decipher this child's name?  It looks like M.A.of Neil Kelly and Eliza McCambridge - towards the top left hand side of the page of this parish register.  (2nd Sept 1848).  Surely they didn't just baptise the baby with initials?!

Thanks for all suggestions!
http://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633174#page/10/mode/1up

[matthewj64]

Some of the other names seem to have been abbreviated eg "Pat." "Cath.", maybe its Mary Ann abbreviated?

edit: there's another "M. A." on the next page down

[Donnie H]

Further down the page on the 7th of November there are another set of initials M.A. perhaps a commonly used abbreviation for Mary Ann or Margaret Ann.

[jaylay]

You could both well be right - they had already had a child, Margaret, born 2 years previously.  I think it could be Mary Ann - I always felt sure there was a sibling Mary, but never found her birth.  Thanks! 

[craggagh]

Hello -

I would read the mother's name as Elizabeth Ambridge.

craggagh.

[matthewj64]

Hello -

I would read the mother's name as Elizabeth Ambridge.

craggagh.

I agree, it does look like it could be, but I think its must be "Mc" as the M for "M. A." is a very close shape match for what comes after Eliza

[jaylay]

It's definitely McCambridge - I have other parish records which are far easier to read.