Female Meaning:God is gracious. * Meaning pending review Origin:Irish Gender:Girl
This is all Google says. If you check out the 1881 census there are quite a lot of them. Interestingly mainly frm Shropshire Welsh border, even though it says above that the origin is Irish.
Anne
Thanks Ian. There is certainly no Swiss connection but I am told it is Irish. I had always thought it was a name like Mahalla i.e. people who had been in India came home with these names - Sinah is one I have seen from India also. Quite happy to settle for Irish (or anything else).
OC - haven't seen it handwritten - only printed on FSOrg from Welsh Parish Registers.
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