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Re: Great-Grandparents

by Pickles (C.M.S.)

9/22/2022, 6:57 AM

My great-grandparents were...

Clara Othelia/Patrick Anthony
Edna Mae/Prudencio Villa Blanca

Edith Vera Maxine/Jesse Francis
Elvira J. (middle name unknown)/Cleve Elroy

Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

- ari. +4

9/22/2022, 7:01 AM

Wow, Othelia! I wonder if it's the feminine form of Othello?

- Manipura (glaucous) +2

9/22/2022, 12:08 PM

I think it's probably a variant of Ottilia / Odelia, but Otho was semi-common here 100 years ago, so maybe that could have influenced the spelling.

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- ari. +1

9/23/2022, 1:09 AM

Since Othello is an elaboration of Otho, that could still work as a feminization of Othello, even if it wasn't the parents' intention :-)

- Pickles (C.M.S.)

9/23/2022, 9:23 AM

LOL

This is funny to me, because my great-grandmother was horribly racist.

- Pickles (C.M.S.)

9/22/2022, 7:22 AM

I have no idea, but I doubt it. Her parents were poor, Swedish farmers from Minnesota.

This message was edited 9/22/2022, 7:24 AM

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