"Hettie"? who could she have been

[brigidmac]

Roopat
Coincidence our great aunt Hetty was a dresser in Liverpool for Hetty King the performer .I wonder if that's where she picked up the glamourous shortened form ?

[mrsruz]

My gran was Hettie. Baptised Esther.

[Jed59]

If the waters aren’t muddy enough lol. “ Hortense”?

[ThrelfallYorky]

Thanks to you all. I'll start trawling through records using most of your suggestions - never would have thought of "Hedwig" myself ( although as she was a lancashire lass, apparently, I suspect that wouldn't have been her name!)

[roopat]

Roopat
Coincidence our great aunt Hetty was a dresser in Liverpool for Hetty King the performer .I wonder if that's where she picked up the glamourous shortened form ?

Fantastic! 


Pat

[louisa maud]

If you know her surname I think I would put that in and give a few  years either side of when you think she was born and where, she might just pop up, just a suggestion

Louisa Maud

[barryd]

Hettie MacDonald, British film director
Hettie Jones, American poet and memoirist; wife of poet Amiri Baraka
Hettie Vyrine Barnhill, American dancer and choreographer
Hettie Gray Baker, American film editor

Not totally American

[bodger]

One of mine of Free BMD.
    Watkin    Hetty         Gainsbro'    7a   718      

[ThrelfallYorky]

Trouble is I'm not actually quite sure of the surname. I've even met the woman, but OH's Mum used to talk about her a lot, but never saw any of her names written down, either the stage names or the "real" ones, and not sure if "real" was maiden or married.
-You've dredged up a wonderful collection of "Hettie"s, between you! I'm sure there's an anthology of Hetties there waiting to be written.
Thank you all, again.