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Beatrice and Bertha! We did use Beatrice; she didn't have a mn, but luckily we liked the name and loved the original owner. Bertha, an Afrikaans lady who died very young, was Bertha Maria, and our first daughter had Beatrice Mary as her mns. We thought it worked well. However, looking at grandfathers, we'd have been stuck with Cecil (I'd use Cecily willingly!) and Ernest Fraser. There are lots of Fraser people, some with it as a fn, some as a mn, so we decided against it though we do like it. And Ernest and Cecil are just too dated. (If we lived in a German-speaking place, we'd have considered Ernst, but we don't and didn't.)