Awesome, unusual or just plain weird ancestor names...

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I've just been researching family history for me and DH and have come across these awesome / weird names...anyone else have any to share?

• Cave
• Radalphus
• Oldcot
• Septimus
• Ephraim / Levi / Job / Reuben (not that unusual but unexpectedly religious)
• Zebulon (!)

All men's names. Seems that women's names were not as out there but we do have a number of 'Penninahs' which I haven't heard before.

I found an Esmaralda and several boys baptised Jabez

Tedbar. I’m sad I didn’t have a boy so I could continue the Tedbar family tradition.

My great, great grandfather was a Jehonadab.

@maZebraltov

There are some seriously unusual names there...were they British ancestors?

American. Lots are 1700s & 1800s & earlier. Most have surnames that seem awfully Anglo-Saxon like Bowers, Bacon, Bourne, Blake. Dmytro has very slavic surname, fair enough.

Ooh! I found a first name= Freelove. Born 1752. Beat that.

ps: Freelove was British at birth :).

We’ve got Jabez as well. Seriously wish I was brave enough to,use it. Slightly regret I haven’t.

Weirdest one so far are (female) Mahala and (male) Bullen.

Zebulon is also Biblical.. one of Jacobs 12 sons.

I've got a Thalia Vosper and a Thurston... a Helnor as a middle name...

This is my favourite thing about ancestry, wish I’d looked into it earlier and sneaked some of these in as middle names for my poor children 😀

Not so many generations ago (so great or great great aunts/uncles?) hillbillies with British isles ancestry.

The men: Esca, Orin, Rolland, Reuben, Hallie, Manning, Rezen, Alonza.

There’s a Wellie a bit further back, gender unknown.

Women: Rheba, Lema, Letha, Duree, Martilla

Just found a little set of siblings end 19th/beginning 20th century

sisters: Moltie, Lueco (sometimes spelt Lucio) Billie, Alda and their brother: Ezelle

@olderthanyouthink, way back, I have an Izetta. Love Etta !

@RedDwarves

*I had a William Shakespeare (Surname) in my family in the 1700s.

Obviously aspirational*

A 'George Washington (Surname)' here! Pretty strong! I think he died in infancy though, poor little chap.

I've mentioned my favourite of my ancestors' names in another thread - Rayden (m) and daughter Sopenah; Experience, Relief, Volney... My Scottish ancestors are literally all called James or Isabel tho AND FURTHERMORE MANY BRANCHES EVEN HAVE THE SAME SURNAME. Literally have an example of a brother and sister James and Isabel [Adams] marrying, respectively an Isabel [Adams] and a James [Adams], all apparently unrelated. Wtf.

Wreford and Jamesina (both Scottish).

I have an Osbert and a Gilbert, but nothing really out of the ordinary. Some lovely names like Rose Esther and Harriet Ann (known as ‘Tan’) amongst my ancestors but can’t think of anything that unusual (will have to look as I’ve prbably forgotten something obvious).

We don't have anything very exotic but there are some fabulous name in our family trees:

Betty Barnfield
Amy Bees
Sybilla Clatworthy
Kitty Dando
Pollie Dinsdale
Fanny Farly
Sampson Fudge
Ethelbert Mogg

Zebulon is also Biblical.. one of Jacobs 12 sons.
Reciting the 12 tribes of Israel is one of my party tricks. Not because I am pious but because I can sing Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat all the way through (and do the colours of his coat.)

Tempest :)

My dad found a couple of women in the family tree called Alima and one called something like Gimpitgraenem!

Annderry me too after doing it at junior school 30 years ago!
I have a Brightey (female) in my family tree, and a great-great grandfather called Octavius (think he was the eighth child).

@NicoAndTheNiners we must be very distantly related! Tedbar is on our boys list for that very reason!

AnDerry your names sound like Harry Potter characters!!

biscuits i think Keren-Happuch means 'horn of beauty'. How would it be pronounced?

In my family tree, we have Tryphena, Prinar, Albinia, Rosetta, Vilinda (all female) and Solar (male).

Once when I was trawling the census records from the 1800s at work I came across a boy whose parents had unfortunately given him the name 'Wardrobe'. As I remember the siblings were all much more conventional names!

AnDerry your names sound like Harry Potter characters!!

Sybilla Clatworthy is surely a Slytherin.