Names of ancestors

[Wrappedinancestry]

I've been looking into my family tree (back to lay 1600's) and have found some amazing names along the way. I thought it would be fabulous to reuse names from our family trees. I have listed below names that feature on DP/I/both family trees.

Girls:
• Martha
• Annie
• Jeannie/Janie
• Clara
• Sarah
• Eliza
• Nellie

Boys:
• Jesse
• Thomas
• Joseph
• Albert
• Samuel
• Josiah
• Obed

Would absolutely love to hear your views on these names and which you'd reuse ❤️

I like these, just my opinion though!
Girls:
Eliza - Beautiful
Nellie - love this!

Boys:
Jesse - a friend of mine has a little boy called this, he’s the sweetest! Only Jesse I know though. Generally just like the name.
Thomas - Classic
Albert - Lovely with nickname choices.

I like proper names and it's quicker to tell you what I wouldn't use as I like most of them.

Out of the girls names the only one I wouldn't use would be Nellie as sorry, but at nearly 50 I just want to say smellie nellie.

Boys names not Jesse (ya big jessie maybe just a scottish thing) and Josiah and Obed are too religious (unless of course you are) but they remind me of OJ.

I really like proper names, did I already say that?

I mean, they're all fine, but quite ordinary. Aren't there any more interesting and unusual names among your ancestors?

Lemuel, Sidney, Fanny and Blodwen - but not so sure I'd use those 😂

I like most of them. My Mum, Grandma and Great Grandad and Great Great Grandad's names are all on your list and I love all those. The only ones I am not keen on are Obed - it sounds like something is missing, like it should be Obediah or something - and Nellie. I grew up watching Little House on the Prairie as a child and Nellie Olsen was a horrid girl in the books/tv series so that puts me off the name!

Funny you should say that @mrsavocet a Obed's son was Obediah

Girls:
• Martha❌
• Annie✔️
• /Janie✔️
• Clara❌
• Sarah✔️
• Eliza❌
• NELLIE FAVOURITE ✔️

Boys:
• Jesse❌
• Thomas❌
• Joseph❌
• Albert FAVOURITE✔️
• Samuel❌
• Josiah❔
• Obed❔

Ive always loved Josiah 🙂 will never have the chance to use it though as not having any more and husband not keen on the name anyway.

Third girl name on your list I have used ❤️

That's so lovely @chikitiki, I think Josiah is a great name too!

I love Lemuel and Sidney. And I actually really like Fanny if it weren't for the other meaning.

Obadiah is great!

Some lovely names! My daughters are Eliza and Annie so I’m a bit biased!
From you list the only ones I wouldn't use are Nellie and Obed.

How funny - both of my DC’s names are in your list.

Girls:
• Martha
• Clara
• Eliza
• Nellie

Boys:
• Thomas
• Joseph

Martha - dated to me, but fairly popular now
Annie - love
Jeannie/Janie - quite like
Clara - LOVE, one of my favourite girls names
Sarah - dated and plain
Eliza - same as above
Nellie - strongly, strongly dislike, one of my least favourite girls names ever (sorry)

Jesse - love
Thomas - too common
Joseph - LOVE
Albert - horrible and dated, can't stand Albie either
Samuel - quite like
Josiah - not keen
Obed - never heard before but I don't like it

I like Clara and Annie best for girls. Jesse and Joseph for boys.

Girls:
• Martha - it's ok but still sounds old lady to me
• Annie - I quite like it
• Jeannie/Janie - nope not at all
• Clara - I like it
• Sarah - I like it
• Eliza - I like it
• Nellie - this is great, would definitely reuse

Boys:
• Jesse - not keen
• Thomas - love Thomas but not the inevitable Tom
• Joseph - nope
• Albert - its ok
• Samuel - yes love it would reuse
• Josiah - no
• Obed - not at all

I love Samuel, Joseph, Thomas and Josiah for boys and Annie, Clara, Sarah and Eliza for girls.

Meant to add... Samuel is one of my favourite boy names. And it would be so refreshing to hear of a baby Sarah.

I like most of them.

I'm not keen on Nellie yet I do love Nel (and might have called a daughter Helen just so I could use it).

"Lemuel" is a fascinating name! It sounds really modern and like a made up name but it would be great to be able to say "actually it's seventeenth century so up your pipe!".

Thanks all. Really interesting to look back at the family history and names used

Martha is one of my favourite names, I always say I can’t imagine an unpleasant Martha. Lovely name.

Jesse is nice too.

Lemuel was Gulliver's first name in Gulliver's Travels. It's the only place I'd ever heard it before today.

I know most about my mother's family tree. For the men, there were lots of common names like:

Edward, John, Thomas, William and Arthur, but there was also a Horatio, a Claude and a couple of Willoughbys.

The women were mainly standard names like Mary and Elizabeth, but there was also an Augusta, a Zillah and a Thomasine