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WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 26 Mar 2012 23:17

Is this a name in it's own right or is there another form of it?

Researching:
Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 26 Mar 2012 23:21

A name in its own right

You only have to search BMD's to see just how many there were

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 26 Mar 2012 23:22

This is not 1st April is it :-D

Researching:
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MargaretM

MargaretM Report 26 Mar 2012 23:26

I've found it's usually short for Frances.

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 26 Mar 2012 23:31

If you do a search on FreeBMD

Perhaps just select one year and one quarter - more likely to be 1837 to 1910 - you will just how many were registered

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 26 Mar 2012 23:44

I know there were a lot ... but I was wondering if they might appear under another name.. Missing records and all that !
Thanks Margee. That's just the name I was hoping someone would come up with! I have a Fanny who might have become a Frances but i wasn't sure.. :-)

Researching:
Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.

Chris in Sussex

Chris in Sussex Report 27 Mar 2012 07:16

My Great Grandmother was registered as Fanny, married and died as Frances but was known all her life as Fan!

I am sure she married as Frances 'cause it sounded posher :-D

Chris

Researching:
Avatar...My darling Dad. 1931-2019 'Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule' Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. 'A brickwall is a problem that you haven't solved yet' Dave Annal http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/brick-walls-and-lost-ancestors/

Reece

Reece Report 27 Mar 2012 07:44

Yes, a recorded first name but also in my ancestors another name for Hannah.

Reece

Researching:
Jones, (Wales) Morris, Rivett, Harris, Northamptonshire, Crabb(e), Cleal, Tizzard (Dorset/Somerset) Whiteman, Sargent, Gaymer in Sussex.

JerryH

JerryH Report 27 Mar 2012 11:55

I have an Ancesror called Fanny born in 1767.

Church Register shows baptism as Hannah but I think the Rector when making up the Register probably misread his notes as ff can look remarkably like a modern H
That one entry put back my research several years.

Marriages Register (1784) shows as Frances (but signed Fanny).
She was a minor, married by License wih 7 witnesses (including some of her siblings and her father) and there was also a Newspaper article announcing the wedding.
I also have her on 1841 and 1851 Census and also have her Will and that of her Mother which all confirm that she was always Fanny.

But normally
Fanny would equal Frances in the same way that
Jenny would equal Jane.

Jeremy

Researching:
Photo is of my Great Grandfather Abraham

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 27 Mar 2012 12:28

Had a s.i.l. called Fanny but her name was Ann

Its one of those names which can be a name in its own right, but also a derivative of other names such as those shown in the replies here. :-)

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 27 Mar 2012 16:16

Fanny could be Frances, could be Ann, could be Fanny or could be a nickname for anyone. Sometimes I have been called fanny Ann. My Dad would sometimes say Fanny fanakapan. Frances could also be franny.

Researching:
Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

Florence

Florence Report 27 Mar 2012 17:39

Thats a mouthful!! AnninGlos. Fanny fanakapan?

It has become a name in its own right , from nicknames as already been said.
I have ancester named Fanny had daughter named Frances.

my sister Ann was called many a time Fanny ann !!

I think is came from the name Frances mostly.

Flo

lancashireAnn

lancashireAnn Report 27 Mar 2012 18:03

I was also sometimes called 'fanny fanakapan' or 'fanny ann'. Don't know where that originated

Researching:
Liverpool (Cartwright, Chambers, Miller), Todmorden (Sutcliffe, Mallison), Abergavenny (Watkins, Prosser)

Sally

Sally Report 27 Mar 2012 18:25

i was allso called fanny fanakapan so i think it was a counry wide saying as i was born in london

sally w :-D

Researching:
stephen taafe*muriel denley1917 he died 3 weeks later

Florence

Florence Report 27 Mar 2012 19:16

Just googled !!
Apparently, Fanny fanakapan originated from a line said in one of Gracie
Fields war songs. Gracie Fields was a well known singer.

Flo

Maryanna

Maryanna Report 30 Mar 2012 22:40

My husband calls me Fanny Ann too. I won't say what I call him !! x

Researching:
Devon, Somerset, Scotland, India, Essex, Surrey, London, Suffolk, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Dorset. McCausland, McCallum, Pallett, Brown Walpole, Gidley, Cook, Cole, Pickles, Harrison, Whitley,Ridgley, Holden, Guppy, Hankin and all the Kings Horses and all the Kings Men.

jax

jax Report 31 Mar 2012 02:33

I would not say that Fanny was another name for Hannah...not something I have ever heard of

Its my daughters name and she has been known as Han or Hanny

Maybe when asked the name the enumerator misheard Hanny as Fanny??

Researching:
Nothing much

Persephone

Persephone Report 31 Mar 2012 03:54

One of my grandfather's cousins was called Fanny.. she later divorced her husband and I really do wish she had reverted to her maiden name. His surname was Tuck.

My mother would sometimes call me Fanny few clothes. And as I said on a FB page that she had also called me sweet fanny adams.. but she didn't know what it meant.

Researching:
The latest tree member our Grandson, Stellan born 09/12/14

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 31 Mar 2012 05:26

Fanny is a name in its own right .............. OH's grandmother was baptized Fanny

It can be short for Frances


It can be a nickname that bears no relation to the real name



Jeremy ...........

............... I would have said that Jenny was more likely to be a version for Jennifer, or Jeanette, than of Jane

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 31 Mar 2012 05:28

crikey, Persie!!!


we always used "sweet fanny adams" meaning sweet nothing. It was a common phrase when I was young



but I just googled the phrase








macabre, and bloody!

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

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