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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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BlueFlavour · 29/11/2021 22:14

Dorothea Desiree. What a name Smile
I think she was called Deedee.

whereisthekey · 29/11/2021 22:14

Alpha and Omega

SoMuchToBits · 29/11/2021 22:13

I have several people called Ozias in my family tree. One of them was my great, great, great grandfather.

tearinghairout · 29/11/2021 22:12

My mum had an aunt Mafeking. The siege of Mafeking (in South Africa) was going on at the time in 1900 but she was born in London to a London family! Mum always felt sorry for her.

ElEmEnOhPee · 29/11/2021 22:12

Hepzibah, Merlin, Patience, Queenie, Clementina, Britannia, Cinderella, Royal

Those are a few of my favourites from my family tree.

Mosaic123 · 29/11/2021 22:10

Kayla from Besarabia (White Russia).

LucySullivanIsGettingMarried · 29/11/2021 22:08

My great grandad was called Ephram

MissyB1 · 29/11/2021 22:07

There’s a Philomena which I love! And Kathleen features quite a lot in our family tree, and it’s my middle name.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 29/11/2021 22:05

Zillah. I win 😉

haveyouopenedyourbowelstoday · 29/11/2021 22:04

I have a Thomasina, a Lettice and a Jennet.

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OrangeAndYellowAndBlue · 29/11/2021 22:02

@OneWildNightWithJBJ I think Rosina must have been popular at one time. It's also the name of a character in Poldark!

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StillSmallVoice · 29/11/2021 22:01

Someone did their family tree and we turned up in it. We had a Zilpha in the nineteenth century

fourquenelles · 29/11/2021 21:59

Elkhannah - a male ancestor born around 1750
Christmas surname Day also male also born around the same time

OneWildNightWithJBJ · 29/11/2021 21:54

We have a Rosina in our tree too. Also Jellicoe (middle name).

Minorissue · 29/11/2021 21:53

Mignonette, Thomasine

Athomewiththehales89 · 29/11/2021 21:53

Grandpas middle babe name was Augustus 😍

Echobelly · 29/11/2021 21:49

My dad found a few ladies called Alima in our family tree, and he's not sure why, he hasn't found any traces of the name elsewhere

One my maternal grandmother's side there were a lot of sailors and they had a tradition of giving boys the middle name Nelson and a first name beginning with A (for Admiral), so Arthur Nelson D , Alfred Nelson D , which I thought was a rather cool tradition.

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