First name variations?

[KennyBrown.NI]

Margaret in Co. Antrim I have seen in my own tree Peggy, Maggie and Meta used as a nickname.

[shanreagh]

I have just remembered a couple of Irish ancestors named Mary who were known as Minnie. 

[dublin1850]

In Tipperary, Johanna, Julia and Judith were often interchangeable.

[shanreagh]

In Tipperary, Johanna, Julia and Judith were often interchangeable.

Thanks Dublin1850.  I came across a Judit from Co Tipperary once, I think on some emigration documents, with an official who clearly wrote down what they heard accent-wise. 

Sometimes with odd variations of names on emigration records you have got to say the word that is written out loud to get what the 'Irish' might have been.  I've been known to bring up sites with regional accents so I could figure it out.

You get to go to all sorts of palces when you are ancestor hunting!

Also I wonder if Judith might have been a regional variation in itself. 

[lmgnz]

I have found several Minnie's who were Mary Jane.
Tillie is another variant of Matilda
I have never seen a Margaret as Hannah but do have both Irish and English Peggys.

Then there are fathers who are responsible for putting the wrong name in the registry or at least completely different names to baptismal names.

I do have an ancestor Hannah who is also Anna and other names in various records but I opted for Hannah as her oldest granddaughter in my branch was named Hannah. (Thus conforming to the loose tradition of naming the first daughter after maternal grandmother).

My own grandmother was Mina, for Wilhelmina, but other Minas in my family were Jemimas. My grandmothers twin was Violet (her baptismal name)  but her registered name was Margaret after her mother.

Alexander can be Sandy  and in my family Lester.

So there are lots of variations.!