Nancy Twelvetrees

Nancy Twelvetrees
Biographical information
Full name	Nancy Twelvetrees
Physical information
Gender	Female
Eye color	Dark
Affiliations
Nationality	English
Family members
Philip Twelvetrees (brother) Reginald Twelvetrees (cousin) Nathaniel Twelvetrees (cousin) Edward Twelvetrees (cousin)
Book appearances
A Plague of Zombies
A Plague of Zombies

Nancy Twelvetrees is the sister of Philip Twelvetrees, a plantation owner on Jamaica. She had a "disappointment" in London, and her brother thought that by bringing her to Jamaica, she might more easily recover.

Name

• Nancy is a previously a medieval diminutive of Annis, though since the 18th century it has been a diminutive of Anne.
  • Annis is a Medieval English form of Agnes, a Latinized form of the Greek name ‘Αγνη (Hagne), derived from Greek ‘αγνος (hagnos) meaning "chaste".
  • Anne a French form of Anna, a form of Channah meaning "favour" or "grace".
• Twelvetrees is possibly a habitational surname and describes somebody who lived by a group of twelve "somethings". Another possibility is that it originated from a now "lost" village called Twelvetrees, but no such place has been found in any gazetter of the past three centuries. There is another suggestion that the derivation of the name is from 'Atte-well', which over the centuries became Twelve.