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Re: Achie
Well, the initials AG would give you Achie or something close to it; if a lot of people in the family had names starting with an H then she might have been Little H-ie; if they were Scottish then it might have been an attempt to feminise Archie. Any of these, in the hands of a bored bureaucrat filling in forms, could come out at Achie ... luckily for Great-Gran, she was about a century too early for that ghastly Achy Breaky Heart song!
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