Names you just don't see anymore

[chris_49]

Hosea

Not certain that he's actually in my tree, but in the course of my research I have come across not one, but TWO of them!

      Easington near/in Patrington, from the International Genealogical Index

[li]1735 22 Jun Hosea Bird **ADULT CHRISTENING**, so born some years earlier[/li]
[li]1773 19 Sep Hosea Bird, son of Elizabeth Bird[/li]
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Never come across it before, and wondered if it might be a corruption of Joseph?

Roger

Hosea is a name in it's own right. He was a minor prophet and it is the name of one of the books of the Old Testament in the Bible. If you go to Google and just type in the word 'Hosea' lots of information comes up.

I wonder if it gave rise to a patrionymic - Hoseason?

(It exists, not just a holiday firm)

Chris

 

[avm228]

HOSEASON         13 24 14 11 11 13 12 12 11 13 13 29
(21821)
R1b;  Shetland Aboriginal - (Western Norway); Patronymic; None recorded; Hosea ROBERTSON born 1743, Aywick, East Yell, son of Robert HOSEASON; The YHRD database indicates that this participant's haplotype is the most frequently occuring R1b signture in Western Norway.  There are 16 exact matches in the FTDNA customer database.  The only exact matches in the Haplogroup Database are Iceland (4) and Shetland (4).  As the number of mutational steps begin to increase there are matches with a host of countries from Portugal to the Ukraine.  At the one step level there are 3 matches with Norway; Although this participant's surname is HOSEASON, and his ancestral roots in the male line are linked to East Yell, he is not a direct descendant in the male line of the SJOVALD below (23271), but is a descendant in another line.

This DNA report suggests Hoseason was indeed a name given in patronymic style to a son of Hosea.

Anna

[BassinghamTerrier]

I wonder if it gave rise to a patrionymic - Hoseason?

(It exists, not just a holiday firm)

Chris

I bet you're right!

And here's another belter I came across recently!

Sir Thomas POSTHUMUS Hoby, M.P. for Scarborough in 1559.

I bet he was a barrel of laughs ...  

Roger

[chris_49]

I wonder if it gave rise to a patrionymic - Hoseason?

(It exists, not just a holiday firm)

Chris

I bet you're right!

And here's another belter I came across recently!

Sir Thomas POSTHUMUS Hoby, M.P. for Scarborough in 1559.

I bet he was a barrel of laughs ... 

Roger

But was he born after his father died? That was the usual reason for this name being given. Chris

[AngelaR]

Following on from Hosea - my gggrandfather, Hosea Sealey was variously known as Uzziah and Azias. I can't decide whether it should have been Uzziah or Hosea since they're both valid Biblical names and he was illiterate so it was always spelled phonetically    His brother was Uzziel .....

Angela

[coppernob]

Keziah is a pretty name I hope to find one in my family.
I am content to at the moment to a living person named Keziah in the form of my hairdresser, a young girl in her 20's.
Her Mother liked the name and thought it was different -- not into genealogy I guess.
 
Coppernob

[adee7]

Yes, Keziah is a pretty name.  There are several in my ancestry -- one married Moses.

Also, the name Silence (women!) was quite frequently used 'way back when'. 

There is also a man with the middle name of Og.

Kathleen

[chris_49]

Ah - Og, King of Bashan, from the Bible. Anyone found Ur or Onan yet?

Silence is one of the "virtue" names - I collect these: Faith Hope Charity Verity Joy Constance Patience Prudence. Chastity isn't really one, more a C20th invention. I suppose back in those days women were supposed to be seen and not heard!

Men's virtue names tend to be adjectival - Ernest Constant Clement Christian and, if you like, Frank. Endeavour an exception - or just made up by the Morse author?

Chris

[KathMc]

I do have an Ernest as a middle name in my tree, and the funny thing about it is, of the 5 children in the family, he is the only one with a middle name. 

Kath