« Reply #152 on: Tuesday 02 January 07 02:06 GMT (UK) »
I used to work with a Dorcas. Then there was a Major, it took me long enough to realise that this was his given name and not his title! Then there was also a guy called Friend.
My best friend at schools' grandfather was called Verdun, which I think was after the battle in WW1. In my family tree I have been amazed by names from the 1800s that I thought were relatively modern to the present day,
Caroline, Julia and Joy. There is even a Zac amongst lots of James, William, Richard and Joseph. Mary, Jane, Sarah and Elizabeth are also prevalent.
Other names that I like are Alice and Letitia. My most sympathetic name has to be Cordelia Clutterbuck. She married a guy called Bright in the late 1760's and boy must she have been glad to become Codelia Bright.
Pennine
Bell, Brodsworth, Felkirk, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire<br />Bright, Eyre, Jessop, Wilkinson, Sheffield, Yorkshire<br />Fielding, Lound Retford, Lincolnshire and Sheffield, Yorkshire<br />Law, Felkirk, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire<br />Lister, Flockton, Wath-Upon-Dearne, Yorkshire<br />Mitchell, Langsett, Nr. Penistone Yorkshire.<br />Walton, Cudworth, Barnsley Yorkshire.<br />Stanger, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Yorkshire.<br />Gratwick, London and Kent<br />Fahy, Limerick, Southern Ireland
