"The Blue House" BRADWELL-ON-SEA in 1891 or 1901 Census

[Keith Sherwood]

SoftlySoftly,
I suppose as individuals grow into adulthood they perhaps feel more free to use one other of their forenames.  Maybe Nora didn't like Ada and preferred Nora.  Maybe as her mother was an Ada she used the alternative forename to avoid confusion.  I had a great uncle in my Gurner family who was baptised Stanley Ronald Kershaw Gurner, but he was always known as Ronnie.  A schoolteacher, too.
And very glad that you still have some hair to pull your comb through, red herrings are very much the stuff of family history trails!
Very many thanks for all the hours you have put in on our family's behalf here...
Keith

[Andy J2022]

Whilst she was known as Nora/Norah she was at birth/death ADA Norah.

Rather like in TS Eliot's poem The Naming of Cats humans can sometimes have three names: their official name, their pet name and a nickname.

[Keith Sherwood]

AndyJ2022,
Oh yes, I'm a great T.S.Eliot admirer...
Another of my great-grandmothers was born with the Annie Laura forenames, and as an adult preferred to be known as Laura.  However, spending some years living in a house with her extended family, with three year old twins (not hers) whose attempted spoken version of her name was Lee-la, she "adopted" Leila as a third forename.  On her death certificate and on her headstone in the cemetery in Devon where she lies, she is Annie Laura Leila (Nott)...
Keith

[louisa maud]

Can't help with any info here but what a fascinating  story and a  great contact

LM

[hepburn]

I too have enjoyed following the story