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.

Not an ancestor name, but there is a lady with the first name Lesbia buried in Saul graveyard in Northern Ireland.

Shrove ( guess when he was born!)

Zelma was on my shortlist for DD2- DHs nan.

Ines,a great grandma name of his, for middle.

Vetoed by his family as "too unusual."

When I did my family history I found that I have two ancestors called Israel.

I've got a Tryphena but also a King Charles, which always makes me chuckle, delusions of grandeur.

Mine went the opposite way and were spectacularly unimaginative, top prize going to the C18th family where the women of 3 generations were: Elizabeth (grandmother), Eliza (grandmother), Elizabeth (mother), and 3 daughters Eliza, Beth and Elizabeth-Anne (youngest daughter). NB the 3 daughters all lived to adulthood so this wasn't a case of re-using a dead child's name, as often happened - they just seemingly liked the name Elizabeth. A lot.

Biscuits we may be distantly related if your Keren-H is Wiltshire based!

Lots of biblical Israels, Jobs etc for the men. Zillah, Talitha, Asenath and Thirza are unusual girl's names in my family.

AnnDerry that's the only way I remember too ahaa

I think Lucius is the only really good ancestor name in my family tree, there’s a few good ones in more recent generations but that would be v outing

My MiL’s name is Maximiliana. In a local graveyard there is a wearhered grave stone for a Virtue Blake who lost three brothers and a fiance in WW1.

Weathered not wearhered!

My greatx2 grandmother was called Strawberry!

Older - Etta: I guess you don't like Harriet or Henrietta. A friend has an Ettie short for Etienne (French female name from Etien (Stephen))

Funny how so many have mentioned Tryphena, it’s a ‘family name’ in DH’s family.

I have a Josephus (m) and a zibbiah (f)

Almost our whole family tree is called William or Margaret, apart from Ludovic. Poor old Ludovic.

So many awesome names on here!

In our tree I've found nothing seriously weird, but quite a few that are unusual today:

Girls: Florida, Hephzibah, Honora, Marnie, Pretoria, Sybilla, Vida, Zelila

Boys: Augustus, Barnabas, Cuthbert, Lancelot, Percival, Sampson, Snowball, Tait

I’ve discovered that some of the weird first names in my family tree are the surnames of local confederate generals 😧 yucky