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in reply to a message by paulc
I would think that it is nearly certain that Elgius and Elgious are simply spelling variations of the same name.
I wouldn't be quite as sure that Elgius was itself simply a variation of Eligius, but that would also seem to have a much higher that 50% probability, IMHO. It has been hard to find a source that gives a variation of Eligius without the first "i", though Walter Burkart's Neues Lexikon der Vornamen does give "Elgo" as a pet form of Eligius used in Germany.
I wouldn't be quite as sure that Elgius was itself simply a variation of Eligius, but that would also seem to have a much higher that 50% probability, IMHO. It has been hard to find a source that gives a variation of Eligius without the first "i", though Walter Burkart's Neues Lexikon der Vornamen does give "Elgo" as a pet form of Eligius used in Germany.
This message was edited 9/18/2007, 7:24 AM
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Cleveland Kent Evans, thanks for the reply. There doesn't seem to be too much out there on this name, I'd dearly love to know a little more about it's history though, was it associated with a certain religious group eg methodists or family? I guess I'll have to do some more research, and look at some ancestry websites, see if I can find out a little more about my family. My living relatives don't know anything about it.
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