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From: "Seth and/or BJ Hinshaw" <>
Subject: Re: The Christian name "Tacy"
Date: Fri, 01 May 98 07:45:59 PDT


I suppose I should have been more precise in my original
post.
Tacy may not have been a nickname for Tacita for an individual.
However, the origin of the name was as a shortened form of
Tacita, just as the following pairs were related:
Nancy from Ann
Betsy/Beth/Betty/Bess from Elizabeth
Sally/Sadie from Sarah
Molly/Polly from Mary
Peg from Margaret
Gail from Abigail
Patsy from Martha

So, even though a woman may often now be named Nancy
or Sally, the names themselves originated as nicknames
for Ann and Sarah.

Hope this helps,
BJ
----------
> Dear Tom,
>
> I've seen the name Tacy several times in Chester County Quaker families. It's
> not as common as, say, Mary or Elizabeth, as a given name, but when it turns
> up, it does not appear to be short for anything. It is simply Tacy.
>
> Karen Mullian
>

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