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Offline Tephra

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Re: Biblical names?
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 12 March 08 12:37 GMT (UK) »



My Grandfathers siblings all had biblical names..............but you wouldn't expect anything else when the parents were named .......... Mary and Joseph...........!!!


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Re: Biblical names?
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 12 March 08 12:51 GMT (UK) »
Two of my great grandparents were called Mary and Joseph as well, and they had 13 children, but didn't really use biblical names, instead going for names like Joan, Gerald, Francis and Richard.

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Re: Biblical names?
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 12 March 08 23:51 GMT (UK) »
This is a great thread and has gotten me thinking. I have a Dorcas in my direct  line and honestly I had never heard the name before. (And my son is standing over my shoulder having loads of fun with that name.) I haven't done any work on this branch yet as she is my 5x great grandmother and I haven't delved into that branch. Food for thought.

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Re: Biblical names?
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 13 March 08 00:13 GMT (UK) »
As mentioned above, I have a Dorcas and a Zillah in my tree (and fairly close together).  I'd never heard the names before I got that far in my family tree, so it was interesting when Lark Rise to Candleford started on BBC1 recently, as it has two characters called Dorcas and Zillah!  Though my Dorcas and Zillah are early to mid 19th century rather than late 19th century.

Have to say I don't understand children's humour: what's funny about the name Dorcas, Kath?  try Kerenhappuch on him!
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Re: Biblical names?
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 13 March 08 02:06 GMT (UK) »
My son thought it was rather "dorky" I guess.  ::)

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Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA

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Re: Biblical names?
« Reply #23 on: Thursday 13 March 08 08:07 GMT (UK) »
Hi.  Many of my Slingo ancestors from Hampshire had Biblical names:  Samuel, Solomon, Isaac, Emmanuel and Jesse and on the female side Sarah and Vashti.


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Re: Biblical names?
« Reply #24 on: Thursday 13 March 08 09:50 GMT (UK) »
Kath I had to laugh out loud in the library when I found Alice Fanny Minnie bet the children would have too. Has anyone else got a "Salathiel" its a name passed down generation after generation in a N Devon family of otherwise common names Thomas, William, Henry et al
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Re: Biblical names?
« Reply #25 on: Thursday 13 March 08 11:25 GMT (UK) »
Salathiel is a new testament name.  See:

http://salathiel.net/origins.html

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Re: Biblical names?
« Reply #26 on: Thursday 13 March 08 12:35 GMT (UK) »
Thanks David,  the author obviously missed my Slathiel Bale in 1881 in  Abbotsham Devon  ;D He is definitely there He died 1899 and Salathiel John Bale is on 1901
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