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Does anyone know what name Dolly might be a nickname for? I’ve tried Dorothy and Dolores without success. Unfortunately the only people I can ask only knew her as Aunt Dolly. As her parents married in Scotland in 1906 I can most likely get the certificate to prove it’s her but I cannot find any census.

1911 Scottish census can be seen on Scotland’s People website, but you will have to purchase credits to see it

My mother was called Dolly all of her life because her older brothers had said she looked like a little dolly when she was born but her name was Barbara, so I think the name could have applied to any name which doesn't help you at all.

My sister-in-law's mother was called Doreen and she was known as Dolly for as long as I knew her so you could look at that.

Kath. x

Thank you both. I’ll take a look at the census and try Doreen.

Who were the parents?

Victor Reginald Evans and Mary Agnes McDonald O’Brien are the parents.

So far I’ve found Victor Evans born 1910, Arthur Edward Evans born 1912, Annie Evans born 1917 and Sydney Evans born 1919.

Annie was my father in law’s mother

Were all the children born in Scotland ?

Did ‘Dolly’ marry? Where did she die?

I was told she married someone called Mort. All the children were born in Scotland. Sydney died in WW2.

The ones I have found were all born in Old or West Kilpatrick and ended up in Edinburgh.

Is it 100% proven that this person was a child of the parents whose names you have posted? Just checking - as it was commonplace for unrelated close family friends to be called ‘aunt’ by children by way of showing affection and out of politeness

The only child with the parents on 1911 census is Victor jnr

These are all the female births in the area in a possible time-scale

EVANS
ELLEN MARY
F
1911
501/ 824
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
JANET
F
1911
501/ 964
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
CATHERINE
F
1913
501/ 750
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
MARGARET
F
1914
501/ 830
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
ELLEN
F
1915
501/ 1014
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
MARGARET
F
1915
501/ 1159
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
CATHERINE
F
1916
501/ 1165
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
ANNIE
F
1917
501/ 326
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
ANNIE MILLER
F
1918
501/ 1050
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
ANNIE REBECCA
F
1917
501/ 222
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
HANNAH MCKAY
F
1917
501/ 719
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
JANE DOWNER
F
1919
501/ 1314
Old or West Kilpatrick
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EVANS
JEAN BENNIE
F
1920
501/ 1616
Old or West Kilpatrick

The father's birth?

EVANS
VICTOR REGINALD
M
1887
503/ 83
Row or Rhu


and his marriage - for date:

EVANS
VICTOR REGINALD
O'BRIEN
MARY AGNES MCDO
1906
646/3 349
Partick



In 1911:

EVANS
VICTOR R
1911
M
23
501/ 25/ 1
Old or West Kilpatrick
Dunbarton

EVANS
VICTOR
1911
M
0
501/ 25/ 1
Old or West Kilpatrick
Dunbarton

EVANS
MARY
1911
F
23
501/ 25/ 1
Old or West Kilpatrick
Dunbarton

So whoever Dolly was, she wasn't in that family in 1911.


I'm inclined to agree with Kath and ErikaH.
"Dolly" may only have been a family friend, and her name may bear no relation to "Dolly" if that was just her "pet" name.

Do you know when the family moved to Edinburgh?

It appears from ERs that they were there by 1920:

Victor R Evans
in the Edinburgh, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1832-1966
Name: Victor R Evans
Residence Date: 1920-1921
Street Address: Cluny Place 17 A
Residence Place: Edinburgh, Scotland


Cluny Place is in the Morningside area.


Just posting as a long shot -
there is this birth in the Morningside RD:

EVANS
MARION GWYNDOLY[n]
F
1916
685/4 383
St Giles


EVANS
MARION GWYNDOLY[n]
F
1916
685/6 298
Morningside


EDIT:

NO, not her.
I've had a look, and her parents were Owen and Louise.

There was a very similar query on here quite recently................

EVANS
SYDNEY
M
1919
501/ 316
Old or West Kilpatrick

ABLE SEAMAN
SYDNEY EVANS
Service Number: P/SSX 19345
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Fidelity
Date of Death Died 01 January 1943

Age 23

Buried or commemorated at
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Panel 74, Column 2.
United Kingdom
Country of Service
United Kingdom
Additional Info
Son of Victor R. and Mary Evans, of Edinburgh.

I remember that similar thread, ErikaH.

Not the same family, though.

No solution was found.

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1387939

EVANS
VICTOR REGINALD
49
1947
685/6 833
Newington

EVANS
MARY AGNES MCD
71
1959
685/1 727
Haymarket

Do you know who registered the mother's death?

I knew a lady who was called Dolly.
I have seen a copy of her son's marriage certificate ( in NZ) where she was named as Dorothy,(with correct maiden name ) probably because that was presumed to be her 'correct' name.

She was in fact Sarah Jane.

I've edited my previous post re the 1916 birth of Marion Gwyndolyn - not the same family - her parents were Owen and Louise.

Thank you all for the information.

My father in law is the youngest of Annie’s children. He has decided at the age of 70 after randomly meeting a man at the funny handshake club who is most likely a cousin that he wants to trace the family tree.

Father in law can’t tell me much and his older siblings either can’t or won’t tell him much.

Yesterday father in law spoke to his sister Pam and she said there was an Aunt Dolly so if she wasn’t family it sounds like none of them were aware of that fact but it is entirely possible.