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?

I know four Ebenezers, all alive and well and living in east London. One lives next door!

We have a Rimmery in our family tree. I've never come across one of those.

my mum used to be friends with Attracta...

My GGGGrandma was called Fanny Bogna

My DGD was called Helmuth

Norton seems to be a family name haven't a clue why though

My Great Aunt was called Olive. And I have a Great Uncle 'Wally' (Walter).

Ivor, Bertram and Clothilde are other gems...

Concepta. shudder

I have in my family

Bartholomew, married to Bertha
Lovell
Demelza
Margaretta
and a Godwynne

Clytemnestra.

I went to school with a boy who's first name was Norton.

We have a Tryphena, Hepzibah, Dorcas, and several Fannys (almost always nn for Hannah).

For the males. Theophilus, Rimmington, Ambrose, and Cornelius.

A Norbert on Dad's side.
A Sylvester, last name Lester on mum's side.
Gertrud, but she was a blow-in from Germany.

Some names here are gorgeous imo, but some are best not revived, methinks.

My grandmother had a cousin or possibly uncle called Isleworth Zabriskie who was a biscuit magnate in New York in the 1920s. He sounds to much like a P G Wodehouse character to be true.

too much.

We have a Boadicea. Apparently she was known as Aunty Bow-ad.

Pasquala, Priscilla, Augustine. Pluggie as a nick for John. Don't ask.

Ercole. Concetta. Franco. Rocco. Antonio.

Most of the guys are either Big Frankie or Little Frankie. Or Tony.

Yeah my family is Italian-American.

Thanks to a lovely MNer who PMed some info I've been up until now making a start on my family tree. No unusual names yet but a few sad details already - people showing up on the census in institutions etc

The earlier poster talking about surnames on the census reminded me of my grandad's neighbours with the surname Bastard. He used to call them "the bastards next door". Ah memories!
This thread is making me want to do my family tree again. I know there's a great aunt Gerty on it but I can't remember any more.

I've got:

Gottlieb (every bloke on mum's side has Gottlieb as a middle name. It appears that I'm expected to continue this...)
Dietrich
Waldemar
Three brothers named Korbinian Heironymus (all alive simultaneously)

and for the wimminz

Dagmar
Cymballine (which actually is awesome)
and Clytemnestra
Also Bobbie Peace (born in 1945)

Not necessarily horrible, but 'unusual' where I live.

Had great aunts named Everett and Lilias.

Had an uncle named Vivian. Extremely unusual name for a boy in the US. He hated the name and nicknamed himself Pete. Everyone called my dad, who was younger, Re-pete.

The only unusually named ancestors on dad's side we've found are Israel, Kerensa and Loveday.

On Mom's side are the odd names. Great aunts Elva & Erba. Grandmother was Opal. Grandad was Orville. Yep, Opal and Orville.

MrBearleigh has a Horace Higginbottom in his family tree.

Mine are mostly the traditional ones - but had a Gertrude, Ethelwynne, Horace, Fridenea and Bertha in the early 1900s.

Israel, Wellington, Octavius, Jacoba, and Philadelphia in the 1800s

Kerenhappuch, Dyer, Ezra, Silvanus, Uriah, Japhet and Lettice in the 1700s.

I'm tickled pink by the Tickle wing of my family.

We had generations of Charles, William, David, Thomas and other such standard names (in fact, this was Wales, so we have a David Davies and Thomas Thomas), then in the late 19th century my great-grandmother had an Egerton and a Paxton. That's as exotic as it gets.

I teach a Bertha, a really gorgeous girl

I have a 'Hymen' in mine...

Do I win?!

Not that far back in my family tree there is a Marmaduke!

My great grandma was a Jemima and we found a Herbert and a Gertrude. Everyone else was called John.