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From: Booboopies <>
Subject: Re: The Christian name "Tacy"
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 20:13:35 EDT


In a message dated 98-05-01 07:48:54 EDT, you write:

<< 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. >>

Seth and Tom,

In the Bible records I've encountered, I have not seen anything but given
names, never nicknames. I have seen Tacy in the same listings as Susanna,
Mary, Elizabeth, etc., while I have not encountered Suky, Molly, Beth, etc. I
believe that among Quakers, Tacy was a given name and not a nickname.

Karen Mullian

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