Re: Argentinian influence on Victorian Cambridgeshire?

In message <mailman.708.1278761686.3594.genbrit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Adrian Gray <adrian.gray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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?

Wikipedia suggests that it is German in origin and uncommon nowadays
(though FHM appear to have had a cover girl called called Malvina, but I
passed on that link as the other half is sat behind me) but I am curious as
to whether anyone else has come across it?


I've come across it a few times in the outlying reaches of my wife's family
tree but then she is Argentine!

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Graeme Wall

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