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The name has come up a couple other times here (see threads behind link), and no one has given a definitive explanation yet. Is that what you meant by "blogs from this site in 2004"?

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Since folks seem to like shooting in the dark on this question, I'll join in .. =)

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The simplest leads - the ones I'd try to follow if I were you - seem to be that it's

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1) a transferred English (or French?) surname (transferred perhaps fairly long ago into first name use - google finds references to obituaries of American Sidelles (first and last names), and an undocumented meaning about a "wide valley" [at special-dictionary.com] that is curiously similar to the "wide island" possible etymology on this site, for Sidney). Also surnames Sidell, Siddell. Or

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2) an old feminized form of Sidney, or a variant of Sidony.

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Your grandmother's name looks a whole lot like Sidony to me - which doesn't necessarily mean anything, but if you were named after her, it seems "accurate" to me to say that your particular name Sidelle is an Anglicized form of a Czech name, and means whatever the Czech name did.
Perhaps someone here could tell you if Sidonya (Czech) is related to Sidony
http://www.geocities.com/edgarbook/names/s/sidony.html
or if it could be related to Cydonia instead, which is Greek in origin and therefore should be easy to get the etymology for by asking others on this board.

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- mirfak

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