Can anyone help with a THAI name? Haystack/needle :(

[Claricethecat45]

I worked with a colleague who also became a friend and sadly she died in UK 6 months ago and was repatriated to Bangkok. I have now found/remembered some items she left at my home when she was staying last summer - including some jewellery and also some photos. The jewellery is 'valuable' not trinkets, but 3 diamond rings and a Cartier Watch; I know they were gifts from her late Husband. She was having Chemotherapy over 6 months and didn't want to take them with her to Hospital- so we agreed she could leave them with me - i have a small safe. The Hospital she died at in London arranged repatriation, and it happened quite quickly after she died - which was sudden and as a side effect of her treatment and not of her actual disease.
They will not provide me any details of next of kin, for security reasons.

I am desperate to get in touch with her Daughter who I did meet when she visited London 18 months ago before her Mother became ill.

I know she is on FB and that is my best hope BUT the only name i know her as is 'HANNA' or 'HANNAH'.

Her Thai name was long....and it began with 'SEE' and was made of several syllables (something like Seexxxx or Seeheneenaxxxx) and hence the closest 'adaptation to a Western name was Hanna/Hannah.It was a long name- that i recall!

Her daughter was 31 years old so it might be a moderately 'young' name

I am asking anyone who could suggest what the most likely Thai name of origin would be? It might be one of many but I just don't know where to begin !

I know this is a long long shot but i just wondered if anyone had any contacts that i could use who might just be able to suggest some traditional Thai names that could be the source of the adaptation of Western Hanna/Hannah!!!
I have looked endlessly on FB making up all sorts of connotations of names starting with SEE but its all pretty random and basically impossible!

I can clearly recall what she looked like so would recognise a photo on FB and I do know she is in Bangkok...and she used to work at the airport. She married 2 years ago so her married name is now not one i know.

Thank you anyone who can help - and all suggestions welcome because I am not 100% sure it starts with SEE but I do have a memory of it being so....maybe the the 'westernised' Hannah extract could be more of a focus - but I know it was a long name ....we had no mutual friends sadly, and I am super uncomfortable with keeping hold of this jewellery and would love to get it back to her Daughter.

Do you know your colleagues full name? If so I suggest you get in touch with the Thai embassy in London and explain the situation to them. They may be able to help you get in touch with the next if kin.

@MardalaRhyme

I have done that and they took the details and I have contacted them twice to ask for progress- they needed all the details - again - and sounded vague. I may end up just leaving the jewellery there I suppose - but not keen to do that really...I have been trying to make headway now for about 4 months but getting no where- I feel her Daughter is the safest 'bet' but just can't locate

Ask your work if they will forward a letter from you to your late colleagues next of Kin.

Have you tried googling Hanna plus maiden name? She might be somewhere online with that name if she only married 2 years ago. Have you tried googling your friend's name, email address etc?

@CORA - They have no record of her Daughters details- it is quite strange- but they do have her late Husbands details who apparently was alive when she started working in London (before we became friends)

@Ostanovka - Yes tried that one and nothing. Thai names seem very inconsistent and all very variable; Its like she's vanished or was never here :(

I've just googled and Siri- seems to be a common beginning to Thai names. Could it be that rather than See-?

Sirimahatthano?

Do you know your colleagues full name?
Her daughter probably isn't called Hannah, it's not a Thai name.
Thai surnames are allocated by the king, so they are quite varied and your clehues surname is probably quite identifying.
I have work colleagues in Thailand, mainly living in Bangkok, but with their origins from various regions.
If you could PM me the name, I can ask around

@Ostanovka

Thank you --I do think it was SEE as opposed to Siri - i have looked so much i get quite bog eyed with it...Im hoping that a Thai person would be familiar of a name that would commonly be 'abbreviated/westernised' to Hanna/Hannah ....and happen to start with SEE!

The watch could be registered with Cartier?

Any of these?

forebears.io/thailand/surnames

@Weedsnseeds1

Thanks - fully realise her name isn't actually Hanna/Hannah but it was the name she chose when moving in more western circles- this is a common thing to do, I gather.

My friends surname was Chaiphet but believe me I have searched extensively - thing is I know I would recognise the name and photo of her daughter because we were looking at FB when she visited and she was a big poster !

OK, I'll ask about. Can you give me her first name?

Also the Thai people are big users of nicknames so, if your colleague ever used Song, Bo etc that's helpful

Not Shoshanna? Someone posted about it on a baby name thread. They said it's Jewish though, so probably not but worth a shot!

Can only see 4 people on Facebook with that surname. You could contact them?

@Ostanovka
I have done all that..and nothing- it is purely her daughter that is the hope- but thanks for looking; this is my last resort post!

If she used to work at the airport maybe she liked or followed the page on FB?

Do you have a photo of your friend or her daughter? Have you tried doing a reverse image search?

Have you tried asking here thailand-uk.com/forums/?

Or is there anyone else in this country who may have known her and might remember her daughter’s name? Did she go to a temple perhaps? Or any other groups or clubs.

There’s also an Anglo-Thai society here, maybe they could help.

Have you got the death certificate? If not anyone can order one. It will have her address on and you could ask the landlord for your details to be passed to next of kin?

If you can get her late husband's details could you try and find any of his relatives to try and trace the/his daughter ?

Did your friend live in the UK for a while ,presuming she did .She might be on the electoral roll for that time .I could try and find her through a genenology site .

Could you search for people with your friends surname on Facebook, then search their friend lists for “see”? Or Hanna?
The daughter may be fb friends with cousins/ aunts/ uncles etc

Chaiphet has to be an anglicised version ,maybe the Thai version would easier to find ?