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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?