February 2023 BioBuilders - People whose last name is the same as a coin or currency.

Question

This month’s Bio Builders Challenge theme is People whose last name is the same as a coin or currency.

You are not limited to profiles on your Watchlist.

Thank you for your support.

Here's our checklist:

Data Section:

• birth date/place
• names of parents
• marriage date/place and spouse name
• names of children, if any
• death date/place

Biography Section:

• Written (full) sentences stating the facts above, adding inline sources to each fact.
• Is the profile '''Genealogically Defined?'''
• As a general rule biographies should be in your own words. Paraphrase and rewrite, don't copy/paste.
• Baptism, burial, military, and other life events with inline sources.
• Something to "humanize" the person, such as career or avocation with sources.
• List of children with at least one pertinent fact.
• Some list siblings. (I think this takes up real estate.)
• Explanatory remarks, if needed (e.g. disputed persons information, Research Notes, whatever needs extra explaining).
• Photos or pictures, background. Not a must, but nice (you need to own the copyright unless they are in the public domain).
• Categories.
• Connection to the Global Tree.
• All duplicates merged or initiated.
• Links to persons and events, perhaps from Wikipedia.
• Historical context as related to the person's life.
• Sources, Sources, Sources.

You can see some ideas on where to find some of this information on the Biography Builders space page.

Use "comments" below to ask questions.

NOTE: Biography Builders will not show on the tracker. Please add a list to your answer.

[edited to add link to challenge page]

Comments

Have we ever done people who were born or died on a holiday? I've come across quite a few!

Answer 1

OK - a good opportunity to work on some orphans because I doubt I will find any on my watchlist for this one.

1. Frank Nickel
2. John Nickel

Comments

I selected a Nickel orphan and fell down a rabbit hole. All those connected family profiles need work so I'm getting sourcing for them done, instead of working on his biography.

Answer 2

It wasn't me who suggested this one!

Can you give some examples of what would qualify as a coin or currency surname?

Comments

How about Penny, Pound, Cash .. if given names were included I'd suggest Buck

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Here's a Wikipedia list of currently circulating currencies and many of the pages for individual currencies give the names of coins used in that currency. 

Some examples might be Penny, Shilling, Dollar, Pound, Franc, Rand.

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Farthing, Sou, Rupiya (or Rūpiya), Quarter, Guinea, Sovereign, Dinar, Sterling, Won, Lire, Kopek, etc.

Edited to add - Mark, Florin, Crown

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Great suggestions everyone... I found a Coyne on my watchlist, so if spelling variations count then I can do this family... otherwise I need to go adopt some orphans!

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Variations might also include Penninghame, or Shillingsworth, etc.
Also don't forget non-English spelling of names (Schilling/Schillings).

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Nope it was me I found a couple Money's last month and thought it would make a great challenge. 

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Thanks for that Janet, it is a challenging challenge for me but I will find something and it will be fun as always!!  

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I don't do these challenges, but cannot help wondering if names such as "Miss Moneypenny" would qualify? 

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Forgot to delete that part of the post. Schilling for one.

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I have some Sterlings and /or Stirlings in my line which I have not been able to pin down. The alternate spelling in the same family. Stirling-1756 Sterling-1616

I found it too hard to track or to even list the siblings, not knowing which way to go.

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There's 75 people with surname of Cashdollar in WT.

Answer 3

I don't think I'll find any in my own watch list, so will look out for any I come across whilst doing unsourced profiles.

Can we count spelling variations such as Penney? Or variation of Nickel?

# Mary Ann Fagg nee Penny

Answer 4

I can contribute to this challenge ... as long as spelling variations are acceptable  ... I have some Penneys on my watchlist:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Penney-1554

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Penney-1416

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Warren-22550

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Penney-1559

Comments

Variations are totally acceptable as long as they sound the same.

Answer 5

Hope to get some done

1.  Anna Maria (Marks) Burg (1891 - 1974)

Answer 6

I am in for this month, Ernie is the guy who led me to suggest this challenge. Hope you all have fun this month.

1. Ernle Campbell Kyrle Money (1898 - 1982 & his two wives
2. Edna Elizabeth (Melcombe) Money they divorced 
3. Amy May (Langridge) Money (abt. 1904)
4. Charles Penny (bef. 1786 - 1842)
5. Ethel Maud (Uglow) Penny (1889 - 1978)
6. George Penny (abt. 1889 - bef. 1989) Death date need verifying
7. Susan (Penny) Moore (1855)
8. Louisa (Penny ) Sumner (1847 - abt. 1915)
9. Charles Penny 

Answer 7

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wines-32 - one of her many married names was Nichols ie. nickles.

Answer 8

I think I'll find a few.....

1. Ellen Luddington https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nicholl-45

2.  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Francke-62

3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nicholl-3

4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-2438

5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-125

6. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-1050

7. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-2427

8. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Josselyn-104 (wife of Thomas Nichols)

9. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-6584

10. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-4127

11. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-4043

12. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nichols-4130

13. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shekel-5

14. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Shekel-6

15. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ward-11311  wife of Caleb Nichols

16. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Talent-1

17. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Talent-34

18. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crown-129

Answer 9

Hi I will take part this month

I found this profile in orphaned Pound surname Willie Pound

The profile was created in 2012 his Bio currently reads Willie Pound... but he at least has a wife and her family was filled out so I spent an hour or two researching her. Nancy McIntyre. If anyone has a couple of minutes to look at the research notes I've put on her profile I'd be grateful. I don't want to start Willie's biography until I'm sure I've got the facts right (and its a wee bit complicated). 

thanks 

Answer 10

Here is a few options in German in random order: Mark, Pfennig, Taler, Schilling, Groschen, Gulden, Denar, Kreuzer, Heller, Kopeke or Kopeken. I am sure there is more…

Answer 11

1. Donald Ray Penney Jr.
2. Rose Marie Penney
3. Malcolm Penney Jr.
4. Gordon Richard Penney
5. Marjorie Louise Penney
6. Curtis Morgan Penney
7. Elsie Annette (Penney) O'Banion
8. Malcolm James Penney
9. Elizabeth Malcolm (Rand) Thomas
10. Lula (Moore) Penny
11. John Calvin Penny Jr.
12. Clois Inez (Penny) Phillips
13. Faith Dawn (Penny) Turner
14. Dolian Harry Penny
15. Margaret Luna (Cates) Penny
16. Watson Henry Penny
17. John Calvin Penny
18. Lola Lillian (Penny) Strawbridge
19. Bruce Hamilton Penny
20. Nina Grace (Dollar) Harry
21. Anna Frances (Renard) Dollar
22. Lisa Marie Dollar
23. Noah Jackson Dollar Sr.
24. Ann Penny
25. Evelyn Marie (Cleary) Dollar

Comments

I randomly picked Lula and her family (all orphan profiles) and fell down a sad rabbit hole. Oof.

Answer 12

Here's my list for this month, wish I had time to do more because I have lots of Coynes and Pennys:

1. William George Dollar (1896-1926)

2. James Penny (1820-1860)

3. Mary Josephine Sterling (1880-1883)

4. Geoffrey Farthing (1922-1943)

5. Mary Ann (Halfpenny) McPartland (1848 - 1918)

6. Hugh Penny (1830 - 1835)

Answer 13

I'll try to find a few, maybe Marks. How about something like Morgan (as in the Morgan dollar)? Profiles improved:

1. Andre Marks (abt.1769-bef.1826)
2. Marie Estelle Marks (abt.1855-)
3. Saul Marks (1912-2003)
4. William Harrison Morgan (1842-)
5. Ruth Anna Morgan (1875-1959)
6. William Laurence Morgan (1879-1937)
7. Margaret Elisabeth (Davis) Morgan (abt.1842-1923)

Comments

I think so, it's a coin.

Answer 14

I didn't know the Rand was a type of currency, but I have a lot in my watchlist.

1. Elizabeth (Rand) Follett
2. James K Rand
3. Louisa (Shaw) Rand
4. Unnamed Infant Rand
5. Marietta (Bunker) Rand
6. Ephraim Rand

Answer 15

My grandmother's maiden name was Nickell and she had 11 siblings, so I can work for a long time on this challenge!

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nickell-722

I especially need to work on the Biography section.

Answer 16

I'll join this month, since I found one family I can work on.

1. Norine Crawford Schilling

Answer 17

This one was hard to research due to the early date, I still can't find his parents, but will put it up anyway.

1. Hammond Shilling

2. Anne Shilling

3. Margaret Helsdon Shilling Hubberd

4. Mary Ore

5, Gabriel Ore

Answer 18

Hi, I'd like to join the bio builders as it's kind of what I do anyways... I do like some "flesh on the bones" of a bio.

For the Feb 2023 challenge I have a Colonel Oliver "Cash" Dick (Dick-5573). Would his sister, Golda "Goldie" Hazel Dick (Dick-5574) also count?

Comments

I’m sorry Annemarie, but nicknames don’t count. Also, you aren’t limited to your Watchlist.

Answer 19

I found a couple of orphaned Farthings from a 2011 gedcom that appear to have been lost down the back of the Wikitree sofa ever since: 

1. Robert Farthing 1828-1911
2. William Farthing 1858-1859 (Robert's son)
3. Jane Farthing 1834-1862 (Robert's sister)
4. William Henry Farthing 1859-1921 (her son)

Answer 20

I think that includes me, Nichols pronounced Nickels