[Facts] Malcy
Malcy Berthier was a 19th century French aristocrat. She shared her name with a cousin and her grandmother. Does anyone have any idea where this name came from and what it means? TIA.
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Are you referring to Malcy-Louise-Caroline-Frédérique Berthier de Wagram, 1832-1884?
If so this genealogy page online
https://gw.geneanet.org/orlov?lang=en&n=berthier+de+wagram&oc=0&p=malcy+louise+caroline+frederique
says that her maternal grandmother was Anne Jeanne Rouyer and her paternal grandmother was Maria Elisabeth Franziska de Wittelsbach-Baviere.
So if she was named after a grandmother than implies to me that Malcy was a pet form of "Maria Elisabeth".
If so this genealogy page online
https://gw.geneanet.org/orlov?lang=en&n=berthier+de+wagram&oc=0&p=malcy+louise+caroline+frederique
says that her maternal grandmother was Anne Jeanne Rouyer and her paternal grandmother was Maria Elisabeth Franziska de Wittelsbach-Baviere.
So if she was named after a grandmother than implies to me that Malcy was a pet form of "Maria Elisabeth".