Amazing 19th century boys' names

[tinymeteor]

I'm pregnant and can't sleep, so am idly trawling through all the baby names I can think of, by way of counting sheep.

Last night's musings were on fabulously OTT Victorian names for boys.

Isambard. Algernon. Melville.

I probably, almost certainly, maybe won't go there

Any other suggestions?

That link to ancestral names is fab! Got some amazing ones in ours. Best ones are:
Fitzhardinge
Troylus
Sylvestre
Edric
Augustus
Algernon
Edric

Some great names here.

I remember my bus used to stop outside a building where the stone had been laid by Absolom Mellows. That is the best name ever.

I also like Jedediah

Septimus.

There was a detective series in which the protagonist was a sleuth vicar called Septimus something. Traditionally for a seventh child but if slebs now call their children "seven" why not?

I'm liking the idea of Josiah at the moment. Been watching a lot of West Wing.

We have the following in our family tree:

Lancelot
Valentine
Barnaby

Love them!

I'm working in the 1840s and 50s at the moment

Are you a time traveller??