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ArchivesRe: Fleshing out the background of the name "Ivelisse"
in reply to a message by Ivelisse
In France (INSEE's birth records start in 1900) there are no listings for the name with spellings Yvelise, Evelise, Evalise, Evelyse etc before 1951, which is when the story you mention was published, and none for Ivelisse. If it was from an earlier French book, I'd expect to see a few earlier French bearers of the name in some form.
Someone else thinks it might have originally been Corsican:
http://www.onceuponatimebabynames.com/2013/05/ivelisse.html
-interesting theory, but I can't find anything to confirm it.
The 1940 US census as listed here: http://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3Aivelisse~
doesn't seem to have any entries for anyone with the name in Puerto Rico born before 1926, but I don't know how complete or accurate the transcriptions are. That list also has another girl born in 1928 in a different area, which would seem to indicate that someone either read the same book, or there was another source for the name.
Sorry I can't come up with much! - perhaps someone else can do better.
Someone else thinks it might have originally been Corsican:
http://www.onceuponatimebabynames.com/2013/05/ivelisse.html
-interesting theory, but I can't find anything to confirm it.
The 1940 US census as listed here: http://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3Aivelisse~
doesn't seem to have any entries for anyone with the name in Puerto Rico born before 1926, but I don't know how complete or accurate the transcriptions are. That list also has another girl born in 1928 in a different area, which would seem to indicate that someone either read the same book, or there was another source for the name.
Sorry I can't come up with much! - perhaps someone else can do better.
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Thank you—your trouble is much appreciated!
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