Daily AncestorLivy
Livy is an old nickname for Olive or Olivia, found in American records of the 1700s and 1800s.
Livy is a short form of Olive and Olivia.
The same woman can be Olive in one record and Livy in the next, for example a birth under one name and a marriage under the other. Match age, place and relatives before you join the two. Because Livy served for more than one name, see which full name the same woman carries in other records.
As seen in a recordWill of her father, proved 1829; her baptism reads Olive
Item, I give to my daughter Livy Judkins my feather bed and bedstead
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