Wonderful ancescentral names

[CakeandRoses]

Just asked my father for a copy of our family tree to help (or hinder) our name selection. There are some amazing names on there and I thought I'd share some of the best ones with you:

Aurelia (and this has been my fave girl's name all along!)
Clementia
Ebony
Drusilla
Estella
TONS of Florences!
Gwendoline
Hephzibah
A few Lavinias
Lucretia
A few Mahalas
Margarita
Medina Honeybun
Petronell
A few Rosinas and Rosettas
Rubina
Lots of Tryphenas

Would love to know any interesting names you have in your family tree.

sorry, serious typo in the subject but it is late!

Wow! Fabulous names. There's a Peter Michaelangelo in mine. And a few men whose middle name was Mary.

I love Drusilla and Hephzibah.

Hankering after a Medina Honeybun myself

I saw a few women in our tree with male names or vice versa. The best one was Dorcas(for a women, altho not sure I'd even say it's usually a man's name!)

Dorcas is a woman's name -- New Testament.

My paternal grandfather was born to a family of landowners of Spanish extraction in Mexico. There were 13 boys and 1 girl, all named after the saint's day they were born on.

His sister was, get this: Wensaslada.

That's impressive! How could they be sure to have enough saints days to go round?

My great x6 grandfather was called Uriah. His son, my great x5 grandfather, was called Urias.

Needless to say these are not names which we have carried on...

Rosina Maud and there were two,
Bertha Ella,1900'
Josephine 19teens
Constance 1880'
Ella 1880'
Charlotte Marie 1850'
Clarissa 1824
Jane1770

and Eliza and Elizabeth in the same family only two years apart, must have been confusing

People often stuck to bible names as it was seen as a good choice

I have come across a wine basket in one census - whether it was a wind up or not I don't know but rather odd

Cakeandroses did you go to Hogwarts by any chance?

Rofl at Gladioli

Quite dull here, though theres a distant cousin of my Grandmother called Popsy.

Some of these names are fab, ours are very boring

Grace
Margaret
Sarah
Marion
James
Samuel
John
Archie
William
Elizabeth
Mary

Just had a look at mine - a few interesting ones...
Thama
Andrina
Johana
Gilbert
Nada
Fanny
Gertrude
Wilfred
Constance
Robina
Chantz
Yolanda
Kiri
Samford

LOL at GladioliBuckets! They do sound a bit Potterish don't they?

Here's some of the more unusual male names from my family tree (most are 1800s), some of these are even madder than the girls names!

Alonzo (Bond - cool huh?)
Ambrose
Amos
Archalus
Avery
Bartholomew (love it!)
Berkley
Bladud (quite a few of them, seriously!)
Browse (full name: Browse Nathaniel Oldreive Prettejohn!)
Cassius
Clarence
Clement
Clyde
Colan
Cullen
Cyprian (also of the Prettejohn family)
Danvers (Full name Danvers Montague Protheroe)
Edrick
Edwardus
Elmer
Emanuel
Gwynfryn
Hamilton
Horace (which is also the name of our cat)
Jabez
Jacott
Jarvis
Josiah
Lachlan
Lamble
Levi
Montague
Morgan
Nephi
Parmenas
Pears
Perkin
Pharoah (full name Pharoah Carslake!)
Richardus
Silas
Silvanus
Stafford
Valentine

Wonderful stuff eh?

Hope this might give someone some ideas!

ps not sure why I included Cassius, it's not mad at all. I think I was just surprised to see another of my cats names!

Apparently Ketill Flatnose is somewhere in my family tree. DP, being interested in Old Norse and Old English, would actually be quite keen on Ketill as a possible name! But no.

My great-uncle's middle name was Einar, I believe.

Generation after generation of "Bryce"s - DS has that as his middle name.

My grandfather was always known as Lance, but when we found his birth certificate he was actually a "Lancelot". Don't think that DH will be persuaded on this as a middle name if DC 2 is a boy though. TBH I probably agree that it would be too cruel.

Quite jealous of your ownership of Ketill Flatnose comixminx

Spiderwilliam - please fight for Lancelot as a middle name! Surely you can get away with it if it's a family name?

LOL Cakesandroses. Will try ...

I've just started researching my family tree. Found my great great grandparents on the 1891 census. They had 14 children in a 1 bedroom house. 5 children died, the ones who survived were all 90+ when they died. The mother (my g g grandmother), I have discovered, lied about her birth date to marry early and was already 6 months pregnant with my Great Uncle Josiah on the day.

Anyway, I digress....

Godfrey Everard Orlando
Hiram
Theopholis
Abraham
Augustine
Nellie Redihough (Redihough a middle name, not a surname)
Geo
Sabria Gwendoline

Lots of Horaces, Herberts, Williams, Johns, Josiahs and Marys.

Fave name so far is Annie Miriam which is lovely. She was only ever known as Nance though.

I'm so pleased I started this now - great ti see all these brilliant old names!! And I thought they only had Elizabeth and George to choose from 'in the old days'!

ShowOfHands: I love the way you've taken my Danvers Montague Prothero and raised me by a Godfrey Everard Orlando

Everard Orlando would make a supreme pornstar name too (no offence to grandparents intended!)

I'm actually rather liking Sabria Gwendoline

Due to having a German family tree, rather unfortunately we have a few
Adolf's
in our family tree,
funnily enough it is not a trend which has continued

there was also a brother and sister called
Lillie and Willie
which is also a bit rubbish

We have on the male side:

Moses
Augustus
Delamore
Oriel
Campbell

On the female side:

Dolly
Edina
Madonna (really!)
Giolla Christ (very old Gaelic name)
Manuela (wasn't even vaguely Spanish!)
Shosannah
Loveday

Godfrey Everard Orlando was my great grandfather. He was a cruel and unusual man by all accounts. Everard, for the record, is pronounced Ever-ud so as not to excite the proles. Sabria Gwendoline (known as Gwen) was his daughter. She (allegedly) drank herself to death in bed.

All of the above information about my ancestors may tell you everything or nothing you need to know about me.

My ds is named frederick after my great-grandfather. his father was moses and his father caleb, but dh has vetoed both.

my grandmother was elizabeth (nn Lizzie) and had a sister called betty. Rather odd!