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in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans
...these suggestions are great and I did wonder the same thing. So far, I've not found any relatives with the surname Chaney, but I hadn't thought of looking for folks living nearby in general.
I didn't want to say anything too leading in my original post, but in the digital image of the hand-written marriage entry, her middle name, or names, is/are given as (best I can make out the penmanship) Chris, with a small blob that could be a period, then a small space (not quite enough to definitively call a space between separate words), then what looks like chany or chary. The possible second middle name is definitely not capitalized the way the "Chris" part is. In addition, my great grandmother had given her ancestor's name as Harriet Christeny, which she pronouced kris-tee-nee. Because these ancestors had little or no schooling (many never learned to read and/or write), it can be tough to interpret their records. I never knew anything about her going by Chaney until I saw a photo of her grave stone and then spoke with a distant cousin who told me their family never knew her as anything other than Chaney.
I was curious whether Chaney was perhaps a known nickname for Christine/Christina/Christian type names. She is recorded variously in census records as Christina (as a child), Harriet and Harriet C.
Thank you again for your assistance. I really appreciate it. :)
I didn't want to say anything too leading in my original post, but in the digital image of the hand-written marriage entry, her middle name, or names, is/are given as (best I can make out the penmanship) Chris, with a small blob that could be a period, then a small space (not quite enough to definitively call a space between separate words), then what looks like chany or chary. The possible second middle name is definitely not capitalized the way the "Chris" part is. In addition, my great grandmother had given her ancestor's name as Harriet Christeny, which she pronouced kris-tee-nee. Because these ancestors had little or no schooling (many never learned to read and/or write), it can be tough to interpret their records. I never knew anything about her going by Chaney until I saw a photo of her grave stone and then spoke with a distant cousin who told me their family never knew her as anything other than Chaney.
I was curious whether Chaney was perhaps a known nickname for Christine/Christina/Christian type names. She is recorded variously in census records as Christina (as a child), Harriet and Harriet C.
Thank you again for your assistance. I really appreciate it. :)
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