My nanna was Eleanor but was always called Nell, but so was her mother, who was baptised Helen. Eleanor's daughter is Elaine - she isn't called Nell, but the names are all variations of the same, but I don't know if they realised it at the time.
My grandfather (not Nell's husband who was Jimmy), was always called Bob, but was registered as Cecil Alfred Herbert. His siblings were Tom, Dick, Bill, Kit and Gypsy - only Bill being anything close to his real name - Kit's real name was the same as her mothers.
Mum only knew her great-aunt as Aunty Cissy but her name was Rebecca - the only girl in family of seven.
Then there's my husbands grandmother who was called Ruth, but for some obscure reason, her husbands family always called her Jean.
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