Is it Mary? Or, could it even be a name in its own right?
I've just come across it in a burial record from the mid-1800s.
What's in a name? Mally
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What's in a name? Mally
Complete brain freeze. What is 'Mally' a shortened form of?
Is it Mary? Or, could it even be a name in its own right?
I've just come across it in a burial record from the mid-1800s.
Is it Mary? Or, could it even be a name in its own right?
I've just come across it in a burial record from the mid-1800s.
Re: What's in a name? Mally
Please post all the details from the burial record. Might be able to correlate the name with a GRO Death Index entry.Fledge wrote:Complete brain freeze. What is 'Mally' a shortened form of?
Is it Mary? Or, could it even be a name in its own right?
I've just come across it in a burial record from the mid-1800s.
This site http://www.whatsinaname.net/female-names/Mally.html states:
Scottish and English....
Mally was the original pet name derived from Mary. The current English and non-Gaelic Irish pet name Molly/Mollie is derived from it.
DS
Member # 7743
RIP 20 April 2015
Emery, McAnaspie/McAnaspri etc, Fry, McGibbon/McKibbion etc, Burbage, Butler, Brady, Foulkes, Sarsfield, Moon [Bristol & Cornwall].
Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Member # 7743
RIP 20 April 2015
Emery, McAnaspie/McAnaspri etc, Fry, McGibbon/McKibbion etc, Burbage, Butler, Brady, Foulkes, Sarsfield, Moon [Bristol & Cornwall].
Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Re: What's in a name? Mally
Thanks, DS. I can see the death index record. 