Genealogy - does anyone know what the name "LOVEY" may have been a nickname for - around 1800?

Question

I've heard it may be a nickname from Elizabeth?

Answer 1

"Lovey" could have been a term of endearment for a girl with almost any given name.  Similar nicknames like "Sissy" and "Missy" stood in place of many given names; for example, "Missy" was the nickname of one of my great grandmothers (b. 1854), although her given name was Susan.

Betty, Betsy, Liz, Lizzie, Beth, Libby, Lily, Liza, Eliza, Lisa, Bess, and Bessie have all been used as nicknames for Elizabeth.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I have an Olivia/Olive who shows up as both "Dovey" and "Lovey".

The common ones for Elizabeth are Liz, Lizzy, Liza and Beth.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/...

has 540 million entries. I tried the search for given name "Lovey", hoping to see something. Sometimes people are there with a nickname, like

Charles "Catfish" McCorkle.

There are almost 8,000 people named Lovey on the data base. I looked at a random sample. Many have that as a real name. It might have been one; it might be that the researcher didn't have any other name for the person and didn't realize it was a nickname. Some have it as a nickname for Louise or Lynn or Sarah or Mary.

I'll bet you wanted a DEFINITIVE answer, didn't you?

Answer 4

I have an ancestor at that time whose given name was Lovey.  She had a twin named Dovey.