ANSTHRLD - Vanessa de Verona - Name Documentation

[Andrea Hicks]

Brent Ryder wrote:
> 
> I received the following from Countess Vanessa de Verona. Can anyone out there help with documentation for this name?
> 
> Borek

Vanessa is a Post Period given name mentioned in Withycombe and Hanks
and Hodges.

 H&H gives more info on the name. Vanessa: English, name invented by
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) for his intimate friend Esther Vanhomrigh. It
seems to have been derived fromthe first syllable of her Dutch surname,
with the addition of the suffix -essa (perhaps influenced by the first
syllable of her given name).

Withycombe says: invented by Swift as a partial anagram of the name of
Ester Vanhomrigh...and occasionally used as a christian name since then.

I see no problem with 'de Verona'.

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Andrea/Maridonna

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