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Title: What a name to call a child!
Post by: fiddlerslass on Tuesday 22 February 22 16:26 GMT (UK)
Today I have found (whilst looking for something else entirely), a boy with first name "Time of" and surname DAY  from Kent, not to be out done by a boy named "Bold" surname FOX from Lancashire !

Bold Fox did not have a brother called Sly, but there was one called Squire :)
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Erato on Tuesday 22 February 22 16:46 GMT (UK)
Did Time of have a sister named Frabjous?
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: fiddlerslass on Tuesday 22 February 22 16:55 GMT (UK)
callooh! callay!
I chortled in my joy

Appologies to Lewis Carroll
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Lesleyann on Tuesday 22 February 22 17:06 GMT (UK)
I recently researched a family tree for a friend and found his great-grandfather was called Hardicanute Evans. He had a daughter called Hazellopone.
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: fiddlerslass on Tuesday 22 February 22 17:24 GMT (UK)
At least you know you're researching the right people with names like those.
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 22 February 22 17:26 GMT (UK)
Another Time Of Day (married 1866 Kent) as well as the one b 1899

Time Of Day b 1899 married in 1924.  I hope he didn’t call any of his son’s by the same name
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Kiltpin on Tuesday 22 February 22 17:48 GMT (UK)
Wasn't that an early Methodist thing? I am sure that I have heard of a Grace ofourLord Jones. 

Regards 

Chas
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Viktoria on Tuesday 22 February 22 19:28 GMT (UK)
The Puritans used several word phrases as Christian names ,such as :-
“Praise The Lord Jones”
“Strength in the Truth Williams” etc.
Viktoria.
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Kiltpin on Tuesday 22 February 22 19:30 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Viktoria on Tuesday 22 February 22 19:28 GMT (UK)
The Puritans used several word phrases as Christian names ,such as :-
“Praise The Lord Jones”
“Strength in the Truth Williams” etc.
Viktoria.
 

Ah! That is probably what I was thinking of. 

Regards 

Chas
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Viktoria on Tuesday 22 February 22 19:32 GMT (UK)
Yes,you were on the right lines .
V.
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: ladybird on Tuesday 22 February 22 20:12 GMT (UK)
I have a Sconsolate, possibly of Puritan origin, maybe as opposed to "disconsulate" they were happy instead of sad  ;D
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Treetotal on Sunday 27 February 22 15:10 GMT (UK)
I have Thankful Anthony and Providence Butt, both Methodists and from the same Family line.
Carol
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Erato on Sunday 27 February 22 15:14 GMT (UK)
I knew a Circuncisión in Iquitos - she was known as Doña Circo.
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Mvann on Sunday 27 February 22 15:32 GMT (UK)
I found a baptism for a Mon Day in one of the lines I'm searching
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Annie65115 on Monday 28 February 22 21:21 GMT (UK)
Many years ago I was working in a non-English speaking part of South Africa.

Some of the local children were given African names; many were given Afrikaans names (especially Johanna) and a few were given very random names, apparently because the mother liked the sound of the word and the meaning was neither here nor there.

Hence I met children called Chancellor: Chocolate: Yogurt; and Cupboard.

Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Viktoria on Monday 28 February 22 21:24 GMT (UK)
Aaaaaw,
Viktoria.
Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: coombs on Monday 28 February 22 21:26 GMT (UK)
I have some Deliverance's as children of ancestor siblings who went to the USA in the 1600s.

Title: Re: What a name to call a child!
Post by: Copper1 on Monday 28 February 22 21:45 GMT (UK)
I have an ancestor baptised at St Mary's Islington in 1830 Elizabeth Filler Idle Surrett. The birth took place in the workhouse, but the mind boggles what this was conveying about her mother (no father named) at the time of conception.