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Amazing names from your family tree

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OrangeAndYellowAndBlue · 29/11/2021 21:45

Following a conversation at work today.

I had an (great great ?) Aunty Ceinwen. Much further back on the family tree we found a Rosina, which I thought was rather pretty.

A colleague recently discovered he had a distant cousin with the first name Macdara, which is apparently a local Irish saint, and means Son of Oak!

Any cool or unusual names from way back in your family tree?

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The3rdWatermelon · 30/11/2021 00:10

We’ve got a Lorenzo. Weirdly his surname was a very ordinary English sounding name and all his siblings had very English one and two syllable names, no idea where Lorenzo came from!

VienneseWhirligig · 30/11/2021 00:05

And an Agneta, in 1593. Sounds very Scandinavian doesn't it? For a Welsh woman?

VienneseWhirligig · 30/11/2021 00:02

Silvanus, Kerenhappuch and Tryphena. All glorious batty names.

averylongtimeago · 29/11/2021 23:57

From DH's family.
Several Zilpha's , it looks like at least one girl was named after Grandma in each generation.

Truelove, for a boy. Appears several times, in a coal mining family.

Cutelittlesquizzer · 29/11/2021 23:57

Wow there are some amazing names on here.

My lot aren’t as interesting but we have Emmanuel, Ezekial, Lazar, Barnet, Aharon, Cecilie, Hettie, Asher, Myer, Rosalie and Gershon.

Hairyfriend · 29/11/2021 23:55

Lancelot
Rock
Dalton

LightDrizzle · 29/11/2021 23:54

DH has an Ebenezer.
My great grandma was called Gertie Bullock! She was a flighty one who snuck out to dance halls and was divorced by her husband, grandma’s father, which was very unusual in their lower middle class circles in those days.

cheapskatemum · 29/11/2021 23:53

Adelaide
Marmaduke
Kynaston

My next door neighbour is called Rosina. She has sisters called Zighelda (Ziggy) and something else beginning with Z. They are all names of heroines in operas.

Starlitexpress · 29/11/2021 23:47

And one Hornsby, just why?

SoMuchToBits · 29/11/2021 23:43

I also have 3 brothers in my tree called Wallace, Horace and Elbridge (they had sisters too but with more usual names).

BobbieT1999 · 29/11/2021 23:39

@TerrifiedandWorried

Shafto Hmm
Wasn't Shafto the name of a boy in a nursery rhyme?

Bobby Shafto I think...pronounced Shaf-toe rather than Shaft-o!

BigRedDuck · 29/11/2021 23:28

Ivor.

DH wouldn't let me use it for DS Sad

TheVanguardSix · 29/11/2021 23:25

What a bunch of fabulous names on this thread!!
We have a million Antons. Anton seems to be The Name.
Also Milada, Thekla, Vaclav, Kaspar, Elias... quite standard Czech names really.

JudgeMeNot · 29/11/2021 22:57

I have a relative with a middle name of King. No relation to any surname in the family & no idea why it was chosen

Fifthtimelucky · 29/11/2021 22:56

@LadyMonicaBaddingham

Zillah. I win 😉
I have a Zillah too. And a Thomasine and an Augusta.

As far as men are concerned, I have a Cornelius, a Shaftesbury, a Horatio, a Claude and a couple of Willoughbys.

Vuvuvuzela · 29/11/2021 22:53

I have a Gillifer, an Ephanie, a Bertwin and a Zillah.

Dirtystreetpie · 29/11/2021 22:46

And rosiana

BadTimesAtTheElRoyale · 29/11/2021 22:45

Ebenezer, Asher and on my daughters fathers side a Lord Mungo Shock

BadTimesAtTheElRoyale · 29/11/2021 22:44

Zillah here too @LadyMonicaBaddingham. From the Northern Irish side she was a nurse.

Flamingolingo · 29/11/2021 22:44

We have a ‘Quintilian’

TangoTarantella · 29/11/2021 22:43

Brothers Shadrach, Mesach and Abed-nego

Dirtystreetpie · 29/11/2021 22:42

Hillotte

Changecountetextraordinaire · 29/11/2021 22:41

LifeofBriony - snap!

Changecountetextraordinaire · 29/11/2021 22:40

Thirza and Emmet. Onesipherus, which I truly wish we'd had the chutzpah to use (although DS may not have thanked us Grin.

BlueSkyeThinker · 29/11/2021 22:36

I found two Rosinas in different but contemporaneous branches of the family tree - apparently it was very popular around 1900-ish but seems to have missed out on the Lily/Rosie/Violet revival.

Other than that - and one Moses - it's a monotonous parade of Sarahs, Johns, Georges, and Annes.