Interesting Sighting.
I was doing some research on Ancestry.com and I came across a woman named Eliz'h from the 1850's which I am thinking is an alternate spelling of Eliza? Trendy before her time?
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I normally don't read other responses to a post before making my own, but in this case, my immediate thought was that it was an abbreviation for Elizabeth, and then it occurred to me that there was a good chance that was what Ottilie had said, so I did look at her post and your response to it before answering. There's no way to be one hundred percent certain, but I do think this was an abbreviation of Elizabeth, despite the fact that it appears on all the records. I just can't see anyone in the early-to-mid-nineteenth century putting an apostrophe in a name. The only way I'd believe that a hundred percent would be if it's on the birth certificate. Was there a birth certificate among the records?
Hmm. It looks to me like it's maybe been abbreviated on the records, does it seem like that's possible?
It could be abbreviated from Elizabeth, but its featured this way in all of her records.
Hmm... Did you get to see her birth certificate as well?