Aloha (Greetings),
Has anyone ever heard of “[name_u]Billie[/name_u]” being used as a nickname for a baby named “[name_f]Marie[/name_f]”?
I’m an amateur genealogist, so a few years back when the 1940 census became public I was very excited to look up my grandmother and great-grandparents on it. My grandmother is the middle of three children, having two brothers. It was quite a surprise when there was another sibling listed, a 1 year old daughter named “[name_u]Billie[/name_u] K.” My grandmother, who was 5 at the time knows nothing about any sister. She asked her (then surviving) older brother, who was 7 at the time and he also knew nothing about another sibling. It’s been quite a mystery, though one other relative thought they remembered that my great grandparents had had stillborn twins at some point or had had twins that died very shortly after birth, but not that had survived to a full year of age. The naming pattern does seem to fit with the other siblings (both her brothers had “R-“ names and this would mean that both my grandmother and her sister were planned to of had “B-“ names). A genealogist relative of mine who was going to the area anyway did me a huge favor and spent a day scouring local (physical) records and found nothing.
Thanks to Find-a-Grave, I just found a headstone in a local cemetery of a “[name_f]Marie[/name_f] Krieble surname Died 1940”. Find-a-Grave thinks “Krieble” is a maiden name, but it’s a bit unusual for a maiden name to be on a headstone and a brief preliminary search doesn’t find any [name_f]Marie[/name_f] Krieble marrying anyone of the surname in the area. I’m wondering if the “K.” Middle initial from “[name_u]Billie[/name_u] K” could be for “Krieble” and if “[name_u]Billie[/name_u]” could be a nickname for “[name_f]Marie[/name_f]”?