Por Sherri Mora |

Hi! Can anyone tell me if the name "Petra" is a nickname for something else? I just received a treasure box of genealogy research from a relative who has passed. I have found baptismal and marriage information for Petra's siblings and parents but I would not have known about her, had I not inherited these notes. My next approach is maybe this is a nickname.The females, other than my great grandmother, are: Narcisa, Paz, Victoriana, Concepcion and Juana.
Thank you for your help.

Petra is a name, it is the femenine version of Pedro (Peter). Sometimes the name Petronila is abbreviated in documents as Petrona. or Petra., especially with the final NA or A as superscrt, but Petra is a name by itself.
Victoriano Navarro

I have never seen that as a nickname but only as its own proper name. Perhaps she died young and the family didn't talk about her? Oftentimes I find siblings of relatives they didn't know they had because their mothers didn't want to talk about the children they had lost.

Rosalinda

Thank you, Rosalinda. The story on Petra is that after my great grandmother died in Texas, my great grandfather, Francisco, returned to Mexico to live. Petra married the widower, my great grandfather. (She married her sister's husband). This marriage was when she was in her late 30's/early 40's. The rest of the family is well documented, but she is not.

Sherri Mora

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