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Re: Ilsebe - not Latvian but German
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This seems to be a German pet form of Elizabeth. It is listed as such at the following website about names in Hamburg, Germany from the 1400s:http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/hamburg.htmlIlsabe is also listed as a form of Elisabeth in Knaurs Vornamen Buch by Margit Eberhard-Wabnitz & Horst Leisering.
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