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 (or 1360 by the Shire-reckoning), 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'). This may be true of Nora Bolger too, though this derivation does not sit easily with the names of the rest of her family: her father and elder brothers all had names from Germanic sources. It's conceivable that Nora was named by her mother, Prisca Baggins, and that 'Nora' intended to follow the common two-syllable form of Baggins forenames without carrying a particular meaning.
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