Daily AncestorNabby
Nabby is an old nickname for Abigail, found in American records of the 1700s and 1800s.
Nabby is one of the less obvious nicknames: it stands for Abigail, and a Vita Brevis guide from American Ancestors lists it with Abby as a form you will meet in American research.
The same woman can be Abigail in one record and Nabby 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.
As seen in a recordWill of her father, proved 1813; her baptism reads Abigail
Item, I give to my daughter Nabby Oddie my feather bed and bedstead
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