Yins around here.
I got an uncle Stringer. He 71 and that’s his given name. He might hear “Hey String” once in awhile. Never really got a nickname though. Many think that’s it.
“I’ll take an tell yin’s this, aftin he spoke I skinned er back and took 3 fingers”
Translation, Hearing the news he opened a bottle of whiskey and drank about half a pint.
Now imagine the fellow saying what I quoted without a tooth in his head😁
My great grandfather on my mom's side was one of three brothers that started the Lilly Family Reunion in 1929... that reunion held every year, has made the Guinness World Book of Records many many times as being the largest family reunion either in the USA or the World.. depending on the year....
My great grandfather's legal Christian Name, was Spotts Clownly Lilly...
but of course he went by a totally different other name... his nickname, which was Jimmy...IIRC
Raleigh County WVa.....the Lillys were the first white settlers in what is now the State of West Virginia..
Robert and Francis Lilly, the family patriarchs, were both born in 1696....
Francis Died in 1810 and Robert died in 1814....
Francis lived to be 110 years old and Robert lived to be 114 years old...
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/west-virginia/lilly-family-reunion-flat-top-wv/http://mymedievalgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/10/robert-lilly-and-mary-fanny-moody.html
