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From: "Anne Bassano" <>
Subject: Re: [YKS] Christian Name Puzzle.
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 10:40:19 -0400
References: <NFBBJDFIMDABEPAHCAKMKEFGDJAA.charles.russell@ntlworld.com>


Possibly the reason for the underscore was a way to distinguish the male
from female child, where the name was similar.
eg: Jean/Jean_ or Cecil/Cecil_ .

Just a thought.

Anne in Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Russell" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 5:30 AM
Subject: RE: [YKS] Christian Name Puzzle.


> Carole,
>
> Cecil was originally a female name, perhaps that is all there is to the
> puzzle.
>
> Eve McLaughlin wrote this last year on another Rootsweb list>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eve McLaughlin [mailto:]
> Sent: 14 August 2001 00:15
> To:
>
> .........>Cecily (f) Cicillye Sysly Sissley
>
> Most early Cecils were female: it was only in Victorian times that it
> cemae a popular boy's name, drawn not from the old girl's name, or the
> Latin patrician name, but as one of the surnames of current aristocratic
> families (in this case, the Earls of Salisbury and Marquesses of Exeter.
> {Percy, Stanley, Howard, Neville, etc come from similar sources)
> And very few people probably knew it meant blind in
Latin)...............
>
> --
> Eve McLaughlin
>
> Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
> Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
>
>
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>
> Or, maybe, the underscore denotes a letter which the transcriber knew was
> there but couldn't read the writing.
>
> Regards
>
> Charles in Cambridge
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carole Harris [mailto:]
> Sent: 01 June 2002 05:59
> To:
> Subject: [YKS] Christian Name Puzzle.
>
>
> Hi Fellow Listers,
>
> My puzzle is the name Cecile,
>
> Could anyone tell me if there is a shortened version or a nick name for
> CECILE.
>
> On my G Grandmother's certificates of Birth for her children, it is
> written as so:-
>
> Cecil_ Eliz'th Starling nee Woods.
>
> Does the underscoring mean anything in particular.????
>
> I can't find a marriage or a death under this name.
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>
> Best Wishes,
>
> Carole Harris in OZ
>
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