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Lisa-Marie

Lisa-Marie Report 16 Oct 2009 22:43

Anyone got any ideas on the name Trixy??
I have absolutely no idea what her real name was??

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 16 Oct 2009 22:52

Not just continental! Who could forget

Births Sep 1866
Potter Helen B Kensington 1a 141

better known as ... Beatrix Potter!

Researching:
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Lisa-Marie

Lisa-Marie Report 16 Oct 2009 23:04

Thanks, i wouldve never in a million years guessed that!!

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 17 Oct 2009 00:04

That's a can of worms, Lisa-Marie. I have 2 distant cousins I knew as Trixie and Dinkie!!
One was Isabelle/Isobel - can't for the life of me remember the proper name of the other!! LOL
Didn't have a mother called Gwendoline did she?

Also had a GG aunt Bella - her real name was Ethelrida or something like it!

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Lisa-Marie

Lisa-Marie Report 17 Oct 2009 00:35

No sorry her mum i think was Irene,
Dont worry my Montague side i have a great great great nan who used 2 different names, & recently found out my ggg grandad changed his surname after his first marriage!!
So Confusing, Probabbly silly Q but have you tried spelling
Isabel? not how i thought it was spelt but how someone in my tree was spelt?

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 17 Oct 2009 00:45

Isobel, Isabel, Isabelle, Isabella - I knew an Isa as well - bit like Elizabeth (Betsy Beth, Liz etc) and Margaret (Maggie, Meg, Peggy etc)!

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842