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Post by psoccer on Apr 2, 2016 2:32:35 GMT
I know I have seen some unusual ones, and when I do, I just think that the ones that we see now a days are not that bad.
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Post by breetheflea on Apr 2, 2016 2:34:16 GMT
Names are my favorite part of family tree research...
Alphonsine who went by Florence (because that's a much better choice...) Welcome Green Colonie Cordular Efrem Ephner Viva Azylda Henophile Napoleon Zenophile Albia Cleophas Dolphis Zotique Thankful Aretus Captain Preserved Submit Persels Sarilda Melvida Remelda Hursey Rosco Kleaford Experience Ercell
and my favorite: Eltweed
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Post by melanell on Apr 2, 2016 2:34:21 GMT
I have a Theron & Sophronia, too. Some that sound odd to us today, really weren't odd at all for their time or place, but yeah, they still aren't names I'm looking to pass on to my kids. I have Wellington, Philander, Egbert, Ebenezer, Banfield, Zipron, Cyprian, Sypian, Manassa, & Roscoe for guys. For the ladies I also have Dillie, & Jemima. DH's family has Thankful, Patience, Experience, & Freelove. But mostly, due to a huge portion of my family tree is Italian or Irish, I have 112,700 relatives named Mary or Maria. (I do have some interesting ones on the Italian side. Not just the typical Luigi, Vincenzo, Alessandro, Rosa, Maria, etc., but Attanasio, Diodato, Palmina, & Gilda. The Irish names are brutally boring and repetitive. Seriously. All of the kids had to have nicknames just to know who in the world you were talking about. William, Francis, John, & Patrick----over, and over, and over again. The girls were all Mary, Bridget, & Alice.)
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Post by taysmommy03 on Apr 2, 2016 2:35:50 GMT
One of my ancestors was named Horse.
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Post by MrsDepp on Apr 2, 2016 2:44:20 GMT
Names are my favorite part of family tree research... Alphonsine who went by Florence (because that's a much better choice...) Welcome Green Colonie Cordular Efrem Ephner Viva Azylda Henophile Napoleon Zenophile Albia Cleophas Dolphis Zotique Thankful Aretus Captain Preserved Submit Persels Sarilda Melvida Remelda Hursey Rosco Kleaford Experience Ercell and my favorite: Eltweed My paternal grandfather's name was Green and his father was named Pink
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Post by peasapie on Apr 2, 2016 2:48:13 GMT
These are great. My Italian ancestors had names like Aurelio, Euplio and Tiberius
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Post by melissa on Apr 2, 2016 2:48:44 GMT
Ahh.. I have a daughter obsessed with Hamilton, The Musical. "Dear Theodosia" is a song sung by Leslie Odom Jr who plays Aaron Burr. It's the name of his wife and his eldest daughter. Just a bit of history.
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Post by Mystie on Apr 2, 2016 3:09:14 GMT
The vast majority of my ancestors had normal, boring names. Lots of Johns, Josephs, Marys, Annas, etc. Lots of Abrahams. One Noah. But here are a few odd ones:
Purlina Abijah Humility Ludwig Lileous (a woman) Valentine Magdalena
And I have one ancestor named Ulysses Grant and another named Martin Van Buren. And another named Washington, who was born in 1776!
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Post by gorgeouskid on Apr 2, 2016 3:12:00 GMT
Nimrod
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 3:12:58 GMT
I've been working on the family trees for a couple of years now and sometimes just shake my head at the names that I find. No wonder I had a hard time choosing names when I looked at the family names! ![:laugh:](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/Ivm7lm0DayrhoRpwvCeH.jpg) Whenever I start to complain about a baby name I've heard, I have to remind myself that odd names have been around forever! Some I've run across in my lines (dad's side has the worst ones!): Theron Delmar Vertle Saphronia (went by Fronia) Ulsey Zelphia Theodocia What are some of the oddest or unusual names you've uncovered in your family? I know a Theron, Delmar, saphronia ( she went by Sophie. )
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Post by seikashaven on Apr 2, 2016 3:15:09 GMT
We have a Squire!
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Post by ntsf on Apr 2, 2016 3:35:05 GMT
my grandfather choose the middle name of Elmer... my mother's family is all welsh...and it is the same twenty names over and over and over.. and lots of double names..like thomas thomas.
or then you go back 200 yrs and the kids didn't have the same last names..within one generation.. so confusing..the only way I found some relatives is that I knew the name of the farm they owned.
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Post by anniefb on Apr 2, 2016 3:38:22 GMT
One of my ancestors was named Horse. That's the best one ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/Q_m8lDOvc_3Le3r1GKdf.jpg)
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Post by tidegirl on Apr 2, 2016 3:56:57 GMT
I have a Theron in my classroom. I'll admit it is just another name to me. Doesn't sound odd or out of date. I think it fits him. Now if you asked me that question before I met him...I might have had a different answer.
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Post by anniefb on Apr 2, 2016 4:00:07 GMT
Hmm, well nothing so exotic as what's been posted. My family is 2/3 Jewish 1/3 Catholic so my ancestors mostly have religious names. They're all European - from the former Austro -Hungarian empire, so some of the names are still unusual.
Women's names include Honorcia, Dobrisz, Biene Liebe and Maria Magdalena. Among the men there are scores of Josef, Johann, Jakob and Georg. The most usual men's name is probably Lazar or Lazarus.
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Post by scrapbookwriter on Apr 2, 2016 4:06:34 GMT
My sentimental favorite is Thankfull (two Ls).
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Post by llinin on Apr 2, 2016 9:17:45 GMT
I don't have to dig too far for some of the names. We have: Fama (my mom, she hated her name) Mossie Conard (not Conrad) Billie (female) Lodia Minnie Efrum
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Post by miominmio on Apr 2, 2016 12:09:26 GMT
The oddest one so far is "Tjostulf" (Norway, early 1700).
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Post by houston249 on Apr 2, 2016 12:31:37 GMT
My great grand mothers middle name is Cinderella.
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Post by Linda on Apr 2, 2016 12:41:15 GMT
I think most of the unusual names in mine and DH's family trees weren't that uncommon for their time/place
(female) Urania Mehitabel Rose de Lima Majuba Adwege
(male) Adjutuer Archeleus Duffus Shadrach
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Post by Linda on Apr 2, 2016 12:42:13 GMT
My great grand mothers middle name is Cinderella. DH has a (distant) step-cousin named Cinderella - I don't think I've seen it spellt the same way twice in the records
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Post by houston249 on Apr 2, 2016 12:51:01 GMT
My great grand mothers middle name is Cinderella. DH has a (distant) step-cousin named Cinderella - I don't think I've seen it spellt the same way twice in the records Do you have any idea why Cinderella? Maybe it was the Khaleesi of its day? About the spelling, good catch. Spelling was not as consistant as it is today and of course people made mistakes. My grandmothers date of birth is wrong on her death certificate. It greatly annoys me, especially since she has no birth certificate, but it is to much trouble to change it.
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Post by melanell on Apr 2, 2016 13:34:18 GMT
My great grand mothers middle name is Cinderella. DH has a (distant) step-cousin named Cinderella - I don't think I've seen it spellt the same way twice in the records I've seen several names like that. Even the basic names such as Catherine can show up differently on every record you find. On one census it's Catherine, another it's Katie, the birth record says Catharine, and the death certificate says Kate. One thing to remember is sometimes people didn't read or write, or at least didn't read or write English. So they didn't know a "correct" spelling of their name. they just knew their name as it sounded. So basically every person who wrote their name down on a record wrote it as they thought it should be spelled. As a side note, while I have yet to find any people named Cinderella on my tree, I have found people who lived on a road named Cinderella. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) (The street no longer exists, unfortunately. That would have been a fun photo to add to their information.) It made searching in newspaper archives a bit easier. instead of searching their name, which was difficult to search by because it was also a common word, I just searched for "Cinderella". ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg) The road wasn't terribly long, so it was a faster way to find articles about the family.
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Post by twistedscissors on Apr 2, 2016 13:41:19 GMT
Pascal Ethel Ilith Cassius Okle
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Post by Linda on Apr 2, 2016 13:42:08 GMT
DH has a (distant) step-cousin named Cinderella - I don't think I've seen it spellt the same way twice in the records Do you have any idea why Cinderella? Maybe it was the Khaleesi of its day? About the spelling, good catch. Spelling was not as consistant as it is today and of course people made mistakes. My grandmothers date of birth is wrong on her death certificate. It greatly annoys me, especially since she has no birth certificate, but it is to much trouble to change it. I have no idea - perhaps just a mum who loved the name from the faery tale? She was born in 1840 New Jersey.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 13:44:30 GMT
Not too many unusual ones in our history, but the ones that are...
Argalus -- male; not sure how it was pronounced, but I pronounced it AR-guh-luss, and it was also my first rooster's name Kittie B. Favorite -- maternal great great great grandmother Ermil -- my paternal grandmother who went by Erm; it is a minor annoyance to me that "Erm" has become an alternative to "uhhh" in the beginning of many Pea posts
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Post by raindancer on Apr 2, 2016 13:49:30 GMT
I come from Mormon pioneers. It would be easier to find a name people didn't think was unusual. ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/Q_m8lDOvc_3Le3r1GKdf.jpg)
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Post by Darcy Collins on Apr 2, 2016 13:53:09 GMT
I have Sephoria and a Nimrod as well! I also have a Murzy, Melquiades, Mordecai And then there's the Knight, Duke and Doctor. I love the different ones, unfortunately huge chunks of my family couldn't think beyond Joseph, Patrick, Bridget and Mary or Maria and Jose - well in fairness to the latter, they all had different middle names that they actually used but some census records are utterly impossible to use as there are 150 pages of Maria and Jose as they only used their first "real" name which was actually only used at baptism.
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Post by leftturnonly on Apr 2, 2016 13:54:55 GMT
But mostly, due to a huge portion of my family tree is Italian or Irish, I have 112,700 relatives named Mary or Maria. And they're all close cousins, no doubt. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/roflmao.gif)
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Post by leftturnonly on Apr 2, 2016 13:57:15 GMT
I have Sephoria and a Nimrod as well! I also have a Murzy, Melquiades, Mordecai And then there's the Knight, Duke and Doctor. I love the different ones, unfortunately huge chunks of my family couldn't think beyond Joseph, Patrick, Bridget and Mary or Maria and Jose - well in fairness to the latter, they all had different middle names that they actually used but some census records are utterly impossible to use as there are 150 pages of Maria and Jose as they only used their first "real" name which was actually only used at baptism. I know what you mean. I 've got a lot of German names that all "start" with their baptismal name of Johannes, Anna or Maria. It makes it really confusing when someone's real name is Johannes, Anna or Maria and they are in a German family.
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