DIY SOS from Blackburn

[Viktoria]

Bernard Wrigley does not roll his Rs as a Scotsman would do, it is more a definite pronunciation ,I would say Blackbern ,the r slightly sounded but his accent pronounces it strongly so more like when we would say burr so
BlackbuRn,a very deep u and pronounced r.
Isn  ‘t it hard to reproduce accents in writing. !
You can bring him up ,and hear him..
I find it a breath from the past when I hear a strong accent.
Viktoria.

[Viktoria]

Just wondered if it was the custom elsewhere ,but within living memory
in Lancashire people were described by who their fathers were so you would get :- Jack’O Bill’s O  Tom’s,in other words, Jack son of Bill and  Grandson
of Tom.
The women too ,and girls often known by both Christian names.
My M in L was Mary Elizabeth ,fondly known as “ our MarLiz” her mother Sarah Anne was “ Seranne”.
Is that known elsewhere?
Viktoria.

[Pennines]

Got to say that I'm not aware of that custom.

My family did cut names short though - my Mum and her siblings all talked about each other as 'our Lou', 'our Al' , 'our Dot' and so on. Not one of them was ever known by their full christian name.

[Viktoria]

I wonder if  that , was well ,to denote their Marys  from all the other Mary’s ?
Christian names were not quite so varied as now  and Biblical names really popular.
A charming custom though.
Viktoria.

[ThrelfallYorky]

The "Tom 'o Billies" does also occur in Yorkshire. Often too, "Tom o' th' Edge" or wherever he lived. I suppose with whole villages surnamed "Greenwood" for example, rather like in Wales, more information was needed to identify the individual.

[BashLad]

The women too ,and girls often known by both Christian names.
My M in L was Mary Elizabeth ,fondly known as “ our MarLiz” her mother Sarah Anne was “ Seranne”.
Is that known elsewhere?
Viktoria.

I don't know about elsewhere but I'd say that was a thing in Rossendale. G-grandma Edith Ann was always Eadie-Annie all the boys in that generation had one name and all the girls had two apart from Janey - who was Janey - and that's not short for something else.

[Pennines]

Bashlad -- If Janey wasn't short for anything else -- was it 'long' for Jane?!

This talk of names has reminded me that I had an Auntie Dolly. She wasn't a real auntie - she 'minded' me whilst my Mum went to work. As a child you just accept these names don't you -- haven't thought about it till now, but just wondering if her real name was Dorothy.

I have never known.

[BashLad]

Most generations had a Jane Ellen so I assumed Janey was the Jane Ellen of hers.

It was only when I started gathering the BMDs that I realised she was Janey all along, she was even baptised that way.

[Hotice56]

Pennines  Hubby's Auntie Dolly was Doris