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Title: First Name Query - Hseelegrave
Post by: Muddipaws on Monday 16 March 26 17:50 GMT (UK)

Hi

I was hoping can check this first name out, it sort of looks like Pocohous but I have never heard of the name.  Unless it is something latin?  (forgive my ignorance)

Thanks

Title: Re: First Name Query - Hseelegrave
Post by: ShaunJ on Monday 16 March 26 18:00 GMT (UK)

Prochorus

Title: Re: First Name Query - Hseelegrave
Post by: softly softly on Monday 16 March 26 18:02 GMT (UK)

Heselgrave
Prochorus
1798
—
1804
Yorkshire Baptisms
Cawood, Yorkshire (West Riding), England

Possible death
HESELGRAVE, POMENAS  THOMAS     60 
GRO Reference: 1855  J Quarter in LEEDS  Volume 09B  Page 218

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Title: Re: First Name Query - Hseelegrave
Post by: Muddipaws on Monday 16 March 26 18:04 GMT (UK)

A name very new, thank you

Title: Re: First Name Query - Hseelegrave
Post by: ShaunJ on Monday 16 March 26 18:11 GMT (UK)

There's an earlier baptist birth registration - same parents

St John Micklegate

Prochorus Hesslegrave
Born 16 June 1798
Father Jas Hesslegrave of Cawood, son of  Jas Hesslegrave of Church Fenton and his wife Dorothy Threadgold
Mother Mary nee Bains daughter of Robt Bains of Cawood and his wife Hannah Bland (?)

Title: Re: First Name Query - Hseelegrave
Post by: shanreagh on Tuesday 17 March 26 03:34 GMT (UK)

Prochorus is a biblical name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prochorus_(deacon)

Hesslegrave sounded, to me, as if it had origins in Germany but it harks back to hazel groves, trees.