17th century English names

[kublacant]

I’m reading a book called The Blazing World, which is a history of the 17th century. I’m only up to the Civil War but have come across rather marvellous names.

fancy any of these?
Calybute
Cornelius
Praisegod
Endymion
Bulstrode
Denzil
Marmaduke
Marchamont
Nehemiah

along with a huge cast of
William
Arthur
John
Edward
Walter
Edmund
Philip
Richard

Women’s names are:
Jane
Ann
Elizabeth
Susan
Lucy
Frances
Penelope

Thank you for sharing this delightful name news.

For some reason, Denzil is surprisingly common among an 'older Welsh man' demographic...

I’ve got an Octavius in a working class Cornish family of boring names. Meliora is probably the most interesting female name I have co across.

I posted on another thread a while back. My great great grandfather had the middle name Godsend. His sister's middle name was Godsgift.

Obediencia sounds like the perfect name for a cat to me.

Called Lower raises the question, how low?!

PraiseGod
JoyinSorrow
Diesel

No idea what I meant by Diesel!😮

Several of the women in my family were called Parnell. It's, apparently, the female form of Peter.

Was he the eighth child?

A researcher last year posted on Twitter a list of 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names, which were excellent: here. Furly Loosvelt is really worth getting a cat for.

Experience Cuppage!

I like some of the saints that churches in Devon and Cornwall are named after: Eia, Uny and Disen, for example.

My favourite is Grissel Toldervy, although I suspect it's pronounced Griselle, rather than Gristle.

And Plant Fry must have been a vegan.

Perhaps the most unusual name I've come across is a man by the name of Original Jackson born in 1697.

Apart from that, all my 17th Century ancestors all had pretty common names, apart from a couple of the biblical ones

My great grandmother was called Dallas which I like but rather pleased I wasn’t called it, especially as I was an eighties kid !

Funnily enough, I've been doing some of my family tree today and found a branch of family from Marton where three generations were named Marmaduke Creyke.
I had a beautiful cat called Duke, so I'm biased and like the name - I also really like Enoch, which you don't hear anymore.

I know 2 Corneliuses - both very nice men

Wasn't it also the name of the ghost in The Woman in Black?

It sounds like being measured for a bra

I know a little Nehemiah from Ireland. His family are very evangelical.