Re: Argentinian influence on Victorian Cambridgeshire?

In message <mailman.708.1278761686.3594.genbrit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Adrian Gray <adrian.gray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
OK, perhaps not, but while I was sorting through the fruits of my 90 free minutes care of Shrek, Donkey and the rest of the England football team, I cam across the wonderfully named Alice Malvina Sharpe in the 1911 census, in Newmarket. Free BMD gives her maiden name as Everett, born circa 1873 at Ashley, Cambridgeshire. Unfortunately there seems to be no good match for a birth registration (was it 1878 the law concerning registrations changed?)., but I am curious as to whether anyone else has come across it?

The 1837-1915 Birth Index has 100 instances of Malvina as a first or middle name, spread right across the country. Only in one or two cases is the surname at all "foreign sounding". The earliest incidence seems to be Rebecca Malvina Beedle in Pontefract in 1852.
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