When does a nickname become a wrong name?

[rosie17]

but as others have said I guess there wasn’t always a rhyme or reason

My mother's sister was given two names but she was called by another. I was told that she hated both her given names and chose one that she liked!

Gadget

One of my brother's was the same was known by his middle name he hated his first name When he spent some time in hospital got very annoyed when his full name was displayed above his bed 

Rosie

[Forfarian]

My late father was always known by his middle name, and I knew he was seriously ill when the name above his hospital bed was his first name and surname, and he hadn't protested.

And I have a nephew who is always known by his middle name because if it had been his first name, the three initials would have spelled an unfortunate acronym.

[Jebber]

My father had three Christian names and was alway known by the middle one.

My mother had two names, both of which she hated, when she was seventeen she chose a totally different name, from the on she refused to acknowledge anyone who used her given names. By the time she died, no one except my OH and myself knew what a real name was.

[Gadget]

I have a whole line of Scots who were all called by their middle names - confusing but I got the hang of it. It was even so down to  my mother's siblings and cousins 

[DavidG02]

Half my research comes from linking nicknames to DoB/DoD inscriptions

[tarrybun]

Just a thought I've been pondering recently. The matriarch of my tree is recorded as Margaret, Bridget and Betsy. I have other evidence to support they're all the same person, but with legal names today it just confuses me how there could be such a discrepancy. She was from Ireland originally so perhaps Margaret was her catholic name. Her mother's name was Bridget so that makes sense, but where does Betsy come from? Anybody else have multiple names attributed to the same person?

An aunt I knew all my life as Betty and assumed she was Elizabeth was actually a Bridget.


More importantly I think your Bridget (not the one i've mentined) might be a connection to me.

Agnes McKenzie possibly her grand daughter  was my great grandmother.