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Horrific names from your family tree

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Fantail · 14/01/2014 21:12

We have been working a little bit on DH's family tree lately. There are some Hmm names in there but none more horrific than a little boy in the 1800s named Ethelbert who grew up in East London.

Have you come across any in your family?

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BananaNotPeelingWell · 14/01/2014 21:55

Wow there are some corkers on here!Grin But Toptack wins.

SicknSpan · 14/01/2014 21:55

Chananiah.

from the Welsh valleys, early 1800's, on my mums side.

BitchyHen · 14/01/2014 21:54

Going back to the Victorian era there is a set of sisters all with flower names. Most of the names are conventional and lovely,except for Chrysanthemum.

BigBoPeep · 14/01/2014 21:53

LOVING these names! Mine are all pretty normal, abraham's about as unusual as it gets :(

Aristobulus, I am so naming something that!!!

Toptack · 14/01/2014 21:53

My great grandad was called Adolf. Do I win?

notso · 14/01/2014 21:52

Brother and sister Boy and Baby surname Fokker. I'm not even joking Shock

hardtostayfocused · 14/01/2014 21:51

Gasp at lljkk! Bowing out gracefully....

PS to NoArmani, I just did a free 2 week trial on a popular genealogy website and cancelled before the subscription hit.

Throughthelongnight · 14/01/2014 21:51

We have a Euclid, who clearly liked his name as he named his son Euclid as well.

I love the name Gladys!

Sukebind · 14/01/2014 21:50

I have an Amiral, Major and Captain - as first names!

lljkk · 14/01/2014 21:49

But not a single Lancelot

hardtostayfocused · 14/01/2014 21:49

No, these Tryphenas be fenland Tryphenas... Guess it's not as unusual as I'd assumed.

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Fantail · 14/01/2014 21:49

MadBusLady - Lancelot Taylor is a great name for a blacksmith!

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17leftfeet · 14/01/2014 21:48

I've got a Lancelot Grin

lljkk · 14/01/2014 21:47

ps: 12 Berthas.

lljkk · 14/01/2014 21:46

I meet your Ebeneezers (36 of them!?) and raise you Aristobulus, Abijah & Othniel.

For the ladies I give you Dulzebella and Mahitabel.

I've got more, Don't get me started. I even fired up my gedcom software to revel in it.

Rigbyroo · 14/01/2014 21:46

I've got a Lancelot in my family too!

NoArmaniNoPunani · 14/01/2014 21:45

I'd love to trace my family tree but wouldn't know where to begin

MadBusLady · 14/01/2014 21:45

I've got Tryphenas too - are your families from the west country? Also several Hermans for some reason, and Dinah I'm not keen on. Thomasin looks a bit ugly to my eye, but said in westcountry accent (ie Tamsin) it's nice, so I'll give them a pass on that.

Also I have a Lancelot Taylor, but actually think that's pretty cool and not horrific Grin He was a blacksmith.

hardtostayfocused · 14/01/2014 21:43

Me too with Herberts TwatWeevil. Perhaps you are related to my DH!!

lanbro · 14/01/2014 21:43

Great grandmothers Bertha and Wahlberg! FILs middle name is Lancelot!

kansasmum · 14/01/2014 21:43

I worked with a nurse called Tryphena once!!

I can give you a bad name from family tree: VERE. And my bloody mother saddled ME with it as middle name. I hate it. Everyone thinks it's VerA (which is almost but not quite as bad) - Mum thinks it's lovely cos it's her middle name too. She thinks she's really posh cos it's 'unusual'!

Arghhhhh! ( sorry for mini rant!)

gwenniebee · 14/01/2014 21:42

We have an Ebeneezer too.

TwatWeevil · 14/01/2014 21:40

Ooh, I think we had a Tryphena too. Maybe it was the Emily of the time? Grin

We had a lot of Herberts too.

5OBalesofHay · 14/01/2014 21:39

Whats wrong with Ebeneezer and Bertha? Bit rude about my children!

2tired2bewitty · 14/01/2014 21:36

There was a decided lack of horror names in our family - pretty much everyone was called John or Mary [imaginative]