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This is what we have found regarding the name you wish to use, Elise
M'Gilleone.
One source (1) has: Aleire, Alison, Elainne, Elaisse, Ellaire, Ellerete,
Helissent, Helouys, Heloys, Heloyson, and Helyssent, all feminine names.
(Nothing else is at all close.) <Aleire>, <Ellaire>, and its diminutive
<Ellerete> are probably forms of Hilary; <Alison> and <Elainne> are
obvious; <Helissent> and <Helyssent> are the name found in Reaney (2) lists
(under Elisant); <Helouys>, <Heloys>, and the diminutive <Heloyson> are
forms of H{e'}loise; and <Elaisse> might be what you are looking for.
Another source (2) (under Elis{e'}e) makes <Elise> the feminine of
<Elis{e'}e> 'Eliseus', later popularly associated with <Elizabeth>. He
says that the diminutive <Lison> was frequent in the 17th & 18th c.;
presumably <Elise> is older. Perouas (4) mentions the apparent
disappearance of the feminine name <Eslis> in the 17th c.; presumably this
means that it existed earlier. Note that the first <s> would have been
silent.
So while we cannot show that <Elise> was used in France in the 15th
century, there were many names that comes close.
In a Scottish context, we also have <Elison> (5), with examples <Elison
Dalrymple> 1514 and <Alysone> or <Helysoune Rouche> 1535.
Talan Gwynek researched this letter.
Sincerely,
Hartmann Rogge
Academy of S. Gabriel
(1) The 1292 Paris Census
(2) Reaney, P.H., A Dictionary of British Surnames, 2nd ed., Routledge & Ke=
gan
Paul, 1976.
(3) Dauzat, Albert, Dictionnaire Etymologique des Noms de Famille et Pr=E9n=
oms de
France, Libraire Larousse, Paris, 1987.
(4) Perouas et al., _Le'onard, Marie, Jean et les autres: les pre'noms en
Limousin depuis un mille'naire_, p 83.
(5) Reaney: (sub Alison)