Tracing birth entry - shortened name?

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Tracing birth entry - shortened name?

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An elusive customer is proving difficult to find in Free BMD, but there may be smoke and mirrors around.
Would someone named as Louise or Louisa become Lucy?

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its possible daggers lucy was used for family name on louise louisa lucille lucinda . another popular nickname was lissy or lisa
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Thanks for that. I may have to invest in a cert!

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No chance of a baptism or marriage cert online? tell us more and we will see if we can help.
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Re: Tracing birth entry - shortened name?

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daggers wrote:An elusive customer is proving difficult to find in Free BMD, but there may be smoke and mirrors around.
Would someone named as Louise or Louisa become Lucy?

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Hi Daggers,
Tell us more, tell us more.....
Perhaps a couple of twisted wildcard searches and/or a different data source would help.

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This one is a little sensitive, so I shall await the cert before I can say more. I know it is tantalising...
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