Has anyone ever heard the name Fodie? An acquaintance is looking for information about an ancestor. He’s curious about her name, and why his ancestors named their firstborn Fodie. I found out her given name was [name]Flora[/name], and she apparently went by Fodie until her death in 1890. It’s cute, but I’ve never heard it.
I’ve never heard of the nn Fodie either especially with the name [name]Flora[/name]. I would never have come up with that connection.
[name]Nor[/name] would I. I’m hoping someone has heard the name, otherwise it may be one of those nicknames whose origin is lost forever because it was a personal one with some story that never got passed down.
I think I’ve heard Fodie before but it was in reference to a [name]Feodora[/name]? Which makes a little more sense?
Not to be rude and I have no idea (obviously) the background of this [name]Flora[/name]/Fodie but is it possible [name]Flora[/name] was the English “parallel” to their original name?
For instance my great-great Aunt, known widely as [name]Tillie[/name], started out a [name]Toba[/name]/Toiba and was sometimes still called that in the family (her family made some effort use English outside the house but not at home always) and legally became at some point in the American census a [name]Matilda[/name]. [name]One[/name] might reasonably wonder “[name]How[/name] the HELL did these people get Toiba out of [name]Matilda[/name]?” but that’s not exactly what happened.
[name]Flora[/name]/[name]Frances[/name] strike me as “maybe seemed All-American in the 19th C” and a girl with a more unwantedly “foreign” F name might use it on some papers without totally changing her NNs, especially with family?
[name]Just[/name] a thought. Sorry if its irrelevant.