How do you solve a problem like "Peggy" ?

And It Makes Me Shine · Post by **And It Makes Me Shine** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:12 pm

I am trying to fill in the Gaps on my Great Grandfathers children just now and I am flummoxed and looking for some help. There was always talk of one of the older children dieing when they were young. Not uncommon I know in fact I have found two children of theirs called thomas the oldest survived all of a year. But I have never been able to find the death of this mythical "Peggy". The oldest child was born in 1908 and the youngest was born in 1931. I had assumed the "peggy I was looking for would have been Margaret and there was another Margaret born 1923 so I assumed that I was Looking for the death of a Margaret between 1908 and 1923 who would have been born inbetween the same dates. But to no avail.

Peggy must have been called something else I have exhausted all possibilities.
Has anyone got any alternatives too Margaret (PS I have looked for Peggy also)?

AnnieMack · Post by **AnnieMack** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:23 pm

Have you looked for a child with the same surname in the death registers say aged 0 to 2?

I sometimes find I need to start with a death before I can find a birth, if that makes sense!

Annie

trotterbeck · Post by **trotterbeck** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:34 pm

Hi
What about second name Margaret known as Peggy.

My mothers family had a tradition of not calling any of their children by their first names, if I hadn't known about this i would have had all sorts of problems finding them on census forms or BMDs.

pinkshoes · Post by **pinkshoes** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:53 pm

Peggy must have been called something else I have exhausted all possibilities.
Has anyone got any alternatives too Margaret (PS I have looked for Peggy also)?

How about a variation of Margaret - I've found Magret, Marget and Margret among mine, and there's always the posh Margarite types as well as the more down to earth Maggie - could have been changed to Peggy as she got older?

Jist a thocht.

Best wishes
Pinkshoes

Post by **HeatherH** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:21 pm

Hi there,
My Mum is Margaret but was called Peggy all her life. here's a few diminutives you can try .
Margaret – Margie, Margery, Marjory, Marjorie, Madge, Mag, Maggie, Meg, Meggy, Peg, Peggy, Meta, Gritty

Happy Hunting,
HeatherH

Post by **emanday** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:32 pm

Greta was also sometimes a shortie for Margaret, and don't forget Margo / Margot.

Also, just confuse things further my uncle's wife was Margaret, but was always called Betty which is most often a shortie for Elizabeth

and, no, she didn't have that as a middle name.

rye470 · Post by **rye470** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:29 am

There's also Rita. My mother in law is Margaret but has always been called Rita.

Christine.

And It Makes Me Shine · Post by **And It Makes Me Shine** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:46 am

Thanks for all the replies. I eventually found her under Marjreat after sitting in the house repeating the name margaret in a broad Irish accent I tried all the variations on what it could have translated into. Allthough my wife thought I had lost the plot.

pinkshoes · Post by **pinkshoes** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:56 pm

Good bit of lateral thinking

Well done =D>

Best wishes
Pinkshoes

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:20 am

Well done indeed

=D>

Note that using a wildcard approach, Mar*t would have picked up this variant spelling.

Sometimes concentrating on the start of a name when designing a wildcard search will lead to success, e.g. Ma*g* picking up Margaret, Maggie, and other variants; but sometimes the approach of thinking along the lines of alternative pronunciations, and concentrating on the elements of the name that are most likely to come through will be the solution, i.e. Mar*t here, - in fact I might even have used M?r*t .............

David

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