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The Bolgers were associated with Budgeford in the Eastfarthing
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Nora is pronounced 'no'ra'
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Uncertain1

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Nora Bolger

Daughter of Wilibald Bolger

The youngest child and only daughter of Wilibald Bolger and Prisca Baggins, Nora had two elder brothers, Wilimar and Heribald. Born in the year III 2960 (S.R. 1360), Nora was forty-one at the time of Bilbo Baggins' famous eleventy-first Birthday Party. She was present at that Party with her mother Prisca and her two brothers, but her father Wilibald had died the year before.


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In modern use the name Nora originated as an abbreviation, typically of Latin Honora (ultimately from 'honour'), and this may be true of Nora Bolger too. While her father and brothersl had Germanic names following the Bolger family tradition, it is notable that Nora's mother, Prisca Baggins, also had a name that might be taken as abbreviation from a Latin source.

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