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Can anyone make out this middle name?
« on: Saturday 05 September 20 01:41 BST (UK) »
I’ve got a birth certificate where the mother has a middle name (I’ve never seen this on any of the other marriage, birth, death certificates with her name before)

Margaret ——- Hamilton.... any ideas what this could be?

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Re: Can anyone make out this middle name?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 05 September 20 02:08 BST (UK) »
It looks like Frances to me.  Is this the baptism for that child?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FQ5P-HVG

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Re: Can anyone make out this middle name?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 05 September 20 02:14 BST (UK) »
Fanny and Frances are the same name.

HAMILTON, ARCHIBALD
   
BAIRD, MARGARET FANNY
   
1861
644/2 291
High Church

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Re: Can anyone make out this middle name?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 05 September 20 02:21 BST (UK) »
Thank you Debra! I didn’t even think of Frances. She’s listed as “Fanny” a few times on other documents I’ve found (I assumed it was some weird nickname for Margaret like “Peggy”).

This was on a birth certificate.