Horrific names from your family tree

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We have been working a little bit on DH's family tree lately. There are some 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?

My great grandad was called Adolf. Do I win?

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

Aristobulus, I am so naming something that!!!

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.

Chananiah.

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

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

I see your Berthas and raise you to an Albertha. Surely that beats. 12 regular Berthas?

Between me and DH we have

Clough (born 1895)
Comfort (born 1876)
Heppenstall (born 1838)
Lenness (born 1888)
Mansel (born 1885)
Vitruvius Partridge (born 1881. OK, in that case Partridge was his mother's maiden name, but still, imagine going through life saddled with a name like Vitruvius Partridge Lastname)

Also have a Mona Temperance...

Jack (as a first name) Jack (as a surname) - actually, not just one but several of these in my DH's family tree.

In fact, his great great great grandfather was Jack Jack, son of Jack Jack, married to Mary Jack, whose father AND elder brother were also called Jack Jack.

And what did Jack Jack and Mary Jack name their first son? Jack, of course!

I have an Apollo lurking somewhere in mine!

I also have an Inkerman (yes, as a given name) in my family tree. Named after the Battle of Inkerman I guess.

Beryl
And of course my great Auntie G (who hated Gladys so much she always sighted her cards just 'Auntie G' lovely curly flourishy G and nothing more)

They're not necessarily awful but certainly unusual and of their time - between 1770 and 1918 I have:

Adelaide and Adeline
Alberta
Alethea
Ambrosene
Barcus Aquila (just how glorious is that?!)
Douglas Maria Theresa (yes, she was a woman named Douglas...)
Ephraim
Forrest
Grove
Hamlet
Hephzibah
Innocent (she was born illegitimately, her mother presumably making a point of the child's innocence in that)
Jervis
Kezia
Leatice
Levi
Lafayette
Mahala
Sabra
Shadrach
Septimus (yes he was the seventh born)
Thomasine and Thomasina
Valeria
Verdun (named after the battle his father died in)

and various other rather obscure biblical names too.

Urquart. Never heard of another.

Also several outlandish biblical names including Hepzibah and others I forget.

Mooncup I rather like Apollo!

Wow!

I can only think of

Barnes
Elfrieda
Abel
Shadrach
Maynard
Euphemia

Oooh I missed Appolina and Ariel (1880's)

Gertrude

We have a Mafeking, a girl. She was born in South Africa when the town of Mafeking was relieved (around 1900?)

I have a Mepsibosheth. Good Yorkshire Methodist stock!

And Britten, Clay, Dominica, and Ellsworth.

Some of these are fantastic!

Just had a quick look at the family tree. My husband has a Rahada, Thosada and a Laumia and I have two Philadelphias, Xenia, Love, Aenophon and a Hephzibar. I also have a Lancelot - yay! I was also feeling left out. Do you think we can collect a roundtable of knight names?

SparklingMuppet - I have a Mahala in my FT too. I also know a baby called Kesia (rather than Kezia) - 2nd daughter of Job.

We have a Gertrude maud and a trophy, believe to be pronounced trothee

Dick
Topsy
Fanny