thanks for repling....
to follow your thought, that's why i was drawn to the book ('What to name the baby: a treasury of names' by
Evelyn Wells) after borrowing it from a library many a time...this writer did research and at the time one of the only book that didn't say "...name you child
MADONNA after the popular singer..."....not my idea of meaning..?
this was a passing thought explored
OneWorldTree geneology records have vanessa as a surname (in the UK)
i won't keep you on this subject, for there are soon many more, feel better soon..shannon