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From: "Ross Holmes" <>
Subject: Re: This forename of NANNY
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:48:07 +0100
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Normally Agnes.
Can also be for Ann, Anne etc.
Quite common up here - my mother for example was Agnes Macadam McKirdy
[after her grandmother}. She loathed it and was 'Nanny' all her days.

Ross [Glasgow]


----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Sowden" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:37 PM
Subject: This forename of NANNY


> Hiya Lists,
>
> I am transcribing for Freebmd, and I came accross this forename of NANNY -
> has anyone else heard of it. It is such an unusual name. Is it short for
> anything do you think?
>
> Diane
>
>
>

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