Dolly, short for ............?

Currie · Post by **Currie** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:40 am

Hello Jake,

Just a bunch of Births and a Death from FreeBMD
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl
District Guildford is in Surrey and includes Shere

BIRTHS
Births Mar Qtr 1867
Cooper Alice Guildford 2a_5

Births Mar 1869
COOPER Mary Guildford 2a60

Births Mar 1871
COOPER Ellen Guildford 2a61

Births Mar 1873
COOPER Harold Guildford 2a65

Births Dec 1874
Cooper Ethel Guildford 2a58

Births Mar 1877
Cooper Lilian Guildford 2a65

Births Dec 1879
Cooper Harry Guildford 2a66

Births Jun 1884
Cooper Norman Guildford 2a69

Births Mar 1886
COOPER Arthur Guildford 2a73

Births Jun 1888
COOPER Eva Guildford 2a67

DEATHS
Deaths Mar Qtr 1919
Cooper Thomas 77 Guildford 2a193

Alan

margarita · Post by **margarita** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:39 am

SarahND wrote:Having looked at the lineup in 1891, I'm betting on Evelyn as Dolly. She was the baby of the family by a long stretch and the last girl after three intervening boys. Just the right set-up for a little "doll" of a baby sister...

Sarah

My husband's late mother's first names were Edith Lydia. She was universally known as 'Babs'..........because she was the baby of the family.

Future generations could have found it difficult to track her down if they had assumed her name was Barbara.

Jake Drummond · Post by **Jake Drummond** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:33 pm

Following lots of leads folks, many thanks, but keep the ideas coming please!

dollyann · Post by **dollyann** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:18 am

Hi

My dad always called me Dolly even though it was embarrassing in my teens when i was with my pals because he said i was like a doll when i was a baby (my names Ann)

garibaldired · Post by **garibaldired** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:07 am

I had a gt gt aunt known as Dollie by all the family but never in official documents. I eventually identified her (there were 5 other sisters) as Catherine!!
I think we can safely say here that Dollie could stand for anything!

Meg

Jake Drummond · Post by **Jake Drummond** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:55 pm

I'm beginning to think "Dolly" was either Lilian or Eva, as we think that Dolly was younger than Ethel, and it has been suggested that Cliff/Athol was 'of an age' with Dolly, which may mean that he was born to a young mum!
If there were middle names recorded then we might have had a clue there, but thus far nothing is ringing any bells.
That's the trouble with nicknames I suppose, as the years pass knowledge of who was who fades.
We had a neighbour call Tam who was always known as Jock, as his wife was English and had met him when he was a 'Jock' during the war. That'll be fun for some poor soul doing the family tree in the future...........

Kim Boughton · Post by **Kim Boughton** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:09 pm

Hi,

My mothers name was Dolly but her real name was Flora. Her father called her Dolly because she was such a tiny child.

Kim

iluvu2 · Post by **iluvu2** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:25 pm

My ancestor was Dolly Henderson Marshall from Newbattle Edinburgh,like you I thought Dolly whats that for? anyway on SP she is Dolly and that was her proper name not anything else

TalkingScot.com

Dolly, short for ............?

Dolly

Hello Dolly