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Cecilie Bergithe Birgitha Johnsdatter - Alternate names

Started by Leon Blair Wood on Saturday, March 2, 2024
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Is Lise a common nickname for someone officially Cecilie or Cecilia? It appears that this individual has been identified in the 1801 census as "Lise".

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https://www.digitalarkivet.no/census/person/pf01058491002080

In the tree, her parents have been identified as Joen Clausen and Karen Sorensdatter based on this census record (Household 01, Person 005).

This her baptism in Tromsø Church on Midfaste Søndag (March 15th) 1795 together with her twin sister: Baptism no. 5 on left page (folie 136b). Her name is written Sise.

Thank you for that additional source. Whether the first letter is "L" or "S" is pretty subjective (at least for me), but the census is certainly written the same way.

The twin sister is another great piece of evidence. Oddly, in the census they are not given the same age.

Her name starts with S and not L. In the baptism just below you see how the L is written in the boy's name Lars. The letters are very different from each other.

Interesting that even the National Archive got fooled when they transcribed the 1801 census.

But bless them for their efforts and making all of this available online for free.

The National Archive have transcribed the 1801-census and not her baptism. The name can be written differently in those two sources.

Here is the original of the 1801-census, and Joen Clausen's family is the 2nd one on page 218b. Her name is written Lise in this census.

Link to census: [https://www.digitalarkivet.no/ft20090807320431

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