Is the name Ciss or Cissie a real name

[fiachraduffy]

@KGarrad

Ok so perhaps an over-generalisation; I'll rephrase as Cissy typically was just the pet name for the oldest girl in a Catholic family and bore little relationship with her birth name.

[KGarrad]

I know very little about names in a Catholic family!

My parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren and siblings all had individual names - none of them used in the family.
Otherwise I would have been called Abraham

[ALAMO2008]

My Catholic Auntie AGNES O'Malley born  1880's in Ireland appears on Liverpool Census 1891 1901 with her Siblings living with the In Laws as " Cissie" till she married in 1905

[Wexflyer]

I am looking for a Cissie Roche, possibly born in the 1870's or early 1880's. She was part of the volunteers in the 1916 Rising.
She is listed in the back pages of Helen Ashdown's book about the 1916 'Rising' in Enniscorthy ' her residence is given as Lower Ferns This book isn't available anywhere in England. I wonder if there are any Rootschatters around Enniscorthy that have the book and can tell me about Cissie Roche.
I'd like to know if Cissie is her real name. Is there any information giving details of her Roche family (location, siblings) and what she did as a member of Cumannn na Mban.

Another book has been published - Enniscorthy the Forgotten Republic by Pat Doran.
It aims to comprehensively detail what happened, and list those involved, using military pension claims and witness statements.
For Roche there are only two listed: James and John of Ferns.

My grandmother and a great-uncle are listed. She was a member of Cumann na mBan, and was in the Athenaeum in Enniscorthy in 1916. My great-uncle was awarded the 1916 medal, while my grandmother got nothing.

I have been told that there is a Facebook group devoted to Enniscorthy history, and that Pat Doran is a leading member.

[Mowsehowse]

I had a great Aunt Franceska Alice, always known as Cissi. It became a popular name due to the Empress of Austria I believe. (She was actually Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie. but in court circles, often referred to as Cissi)

[MollyC]

Cissie: I will stake a claim for Caroline, sister of a great-aunt by marriage.  English, protestant.

[Wexflyer]

Another book has been published - Enniscorthy the Forgotten Republic by Pat Doran.
It aims to comprehensively detail what happened, and list those involved, using military pension claims and witness statements.
For Roche there are only two listed: James and John of Ferns.

I should add an important point: For women, the names as listed in the book may not be their names as used in 1916. That is the case with my grandmother, who married in between 1916 and making a claim for a military service pension in the 1930s. Could also be the case with OPs Cissie Roche.

[carol8353]

I have a great aunt Cissy (or just Cis) her real name is Cecilia.