Amazing names from your family tree

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Following a conversation at work today.

I had an (great great ?) Aunty Ceinwen. Much further back on the family tree we found a Rosina, which I thought was rather pretty.

A colleague recently discovered he had a distant cousin with the first name Macdara, which is apparently a local Irish saint, and means Son of Oak!

Any cool or unusual names from way back in your family tree?

We have
Farse
Tasson
Lambert and
Clodoweg

Pontilious, Mahala

We recently found out that my grandmother’s name was actually Henrietta, not Louise. I wonder if she knew?

@LoveFall "Experience" has made me laugh!

@TerrifiedandWorried @BobbieT1999 Bobby Shafto was a real person - a politician - probably named after him!

Aaronis
Richardi
Bowyer
Lambert
Repentance
Prudence
Nehemiah
Aquilla
Shadrach

Ooh I love these threads. Saint is my favourite name from my family tree. Also amongst the men are Israel, Amos, Johem, Mesech, Jeremiah, Eifion, Levi, Eardley and Faulkinder.

There's also Keziah, Thirza, Cleoner, Joney, Lowri, Olwen, Miriam, Ida, Hester and Jennet in the women.

We have some good ones: Keziah, Amos, Christiana, Graham (for a girl!), Hartley, Philadelphia, Carew and my fave Silence. Also a shed-load of Fannys.

Gwenllian 💜

We had a Chater, Burnetta and Augusta in the 1780s and an uncle Temple in the 1880s. Chater shares a birthday with my DD, exactly 200 years apart!

Damaris appears several times in my family tree.

Other names include:

Regine
Mariette
Ephram
Yehuda

Lettice (with the surname Plant!) And i also have a Hedwig in there too :) I dont know much about her though as she was born in Nazi Germany.

Cinderella, twice (1887 and 1907, mother and daughter) - very distant. Maybe the same people as @ElEmEnOhPee?

Enoch, Levi, Moses, Amos, Ephraim, Abraham, Jesse, Emmanuel, Obadiah, Jabez, Job
Rosetta, Rosina, Angelina, Lauretta
Mahala (three, not closely related)
Thirza
Herodias (born 1807; mother-in-law of 3rd cousin 4 times removed, but died in my birth village)
Cyrus Aquila and Ernest Onesimus
Victor Hugo (as given names together)
Baziel (born 1905)
Melita (born 1886) married Prince
Rochefort (middle name)
Airlie
Phineas
Cornelius
Horatio
Barzillai
Lucretia
Keziah (several)
Helah
Mould (as a middle name - grandmother's maiden surname, but still, poor girl)
Decima (middle name)
Tubal Cain Seaman (!) born 1841
Damien born 1963, poor boy
Roderick
Asenath (girl - name of Joseph's Egyptian wife, apparently)

a whole load of people with the variant of my unusual surname were called Ambrose or Orlando or both

Winnifred (Grandmother's middle name)

There's a wrong 'un in my tree called Theophilus who abandoned his wife with several children, who died not too long afterwards. His daughter called him 'Theophilus DeVille' on her marriage certificate, which I think gives an indication of his character.

We also have Osbaldiston as a family name, which died out at the start of the 20th C- thank God!

We have an Alpheus.

He had 4 sons, Ernest, Eustace, Montague and Frederick.

Their surname was Smith but both Montague and Frederick double barrelled their names. I'm slightly sad we're not in the Montague-Smith family

There's a Sven Svensson in my tree going back through my Grandfather from the Shetland Islands. Viking blood!

Recent (Grandparents level) include Andrewina and Corneilius.

We have a Tempest

Lots of these are Old Testament names. Zillah appears in Genesis as the wife of Lamech and mother of Tubal-Cain. Keziah appears in Job, as one of his daughters, with her sister Keren-Happuch. Hephzibah was the mother of Manasseh in 2 Kings. Melchizedek was the King of Salem in Genesis and Hebrews.

I have a Tiplady, my Great Great Grandfather. I think we have Traveller heritage on my fathers side.

@Bettybantz

We have a Septimus. It seems ‘Latin numbers’ was a naming trend at one point in history. I wonder when that’s due a revival? 😂

I know of a 'Decima'! Fave name from my family tree, not that I have it in front of me to look too far back, is Jemima :)

My grandmother's first name was Strawbridge.

I also wanted to name dd loveday. But DH vetoed it.

A great aunt was loveday another known as “bunny” but her real name was Elizabeth I believe

The ones that stick out in my mind from my family tree include

Querina
Greta
Rosina (at least 5 of them all in the same branch so obviously a family tradition)
Rena

merryhouse I think I have two Cinderella in my tree too, Romany gypsy? I "think" (can't remember without looking) they're on my Cooper side (also known as the Windsor-Coopers). Matty Cooper (the royal rat catcher) being one of my ancesters. Wonder if we're related?