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By chance, I have just spotted 3 Enolas in Neil Rosenstein's Unbroken Chain, in the descendancy of Moses Mendelsohn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Mendelssohn
Marie-Antoinette Enola MENDELSSOHN née BIARNEZ, born around 1830?
Enola MENDELSSOHN née OPPENHEIM, born in 1855
Martha Enola VON SIMSON née OPPENHEIM, born in 1882
Enola Dorothea ERCKHINGER VON SCHWERIN née VON SIMSON, born in 1910
Enola BOEDEKER née WITT, born in 1914
Others born in 1891, 1925...
Other sources give them as Enole, not Enola, although I have often seen the same person being Henriette and Henrietta, for example.
Any explanation?
~~ Claire ~~
My ! are Alia, Eidel, Enola, Israel, Dudel, Yuri, Lina, Lorelei, Leilani, Owen, Julian, Glorinda, Mirinda
My ? are Hillel, Meshullam, Johnny, Ginny, Cordelia, Fiammetta, Yocheved
My ~ are Tehila, Tilda, Hailey, Gillian, Huldah
My / are Aglaia and July
Marie-Antoinette Enola MENDELSSOHN née BIARNEZ, born around 1830?
Enola MENDELSSOHN née OPPENHEIM, born in 1855
Martha Enola VON SIMSON née OPPENHEIM, born in 1882
Enola Dorothea ERCKHINGER VON SCHWERIN née VON SIMSON, born in 1910
Enola BOEDEKER née WITT, born in 1914
Others born in 1891, 1925...
Other sources give them as Enole, not Enola, although I have often seen the same person being Henriette and Henrietta, for example.
Any explanation?
~~ Claire ~~
My ! are Alia, Eidel, Enola, Israel, Dudel, Yuri, Lina, Lorelei, Leilani, Owen, Julian, Glorinda, Mirinda
My ? are Hillel, Meshullam, Johnny, Ginny, Cordelia, Fiammetta, Yocheved
My ~ are Tehila, Tilda, Hailey, Gillian, Huldah
My / are Aglaia and July
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Well spotted! That's very interesting ... the only one I've ever seen was Enola of Enola Gay; which I imagine would make it pretty rare today, on two counts.
If they were all German-speaking, there wouldn't be a real difference in pronunciation between Enola and Enole; I've known people to perpetuate a spelling mistake when naming their children, most notably a man whose own name had been incorrectly entered at birth as Phillipus. He insisted on naming his son Phillipus instead of Philippus, though his daughter (who was a classicist) did her best to change his mind. But he said that if he used a different spelling, the baby wouldn't really be named after him!
If they were all German-speaking, there wouldn't be a real difference in pronunciation between Enola and Enole; I've known people to perpetuate a spelling mistake when naming their children, most notably a man whose own name had been incorrectly entered at birth as Phillipus. He insisted on naming his son Phillipus instead of Philippus, though his daughter (who was a classicist) did her best to change his mind. But he said that if he used a different spelling, the baby wouldn't really be named after him!
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