Weird Forename

[Indaloman]

Has anyone come across the name of Mister before? I have an ancestor called Mister Mister Hancox!

[bevbee]

There's a book called "Potty, Fartwell and Knob" by Russell Ash, full of names like these. We think some people give their children strange names now, but some of the past ones in this book border on cruelty. 

[Indaloman]

Thanks BevBee

Its boring having a name like Paul! My 2nd GGrandchild should have arrived by now, being delivered today. I am hoping that if a boy, Benjamin is squeezed in as my father was the last, he died 2 years ago age 95, and we have had a Ben in every generation,

[Comosus]

I have a Major White (GGGGGG Grandfather) who married 4 times.  Haven't found his birth though.  Would it have been a less unusual forename back then?

Andrew

[matty01]

I heard a woman on the radio today and her first name was O'Hara. I also knew of someone called Sydney Hobart

[Jean McGurn]

One of my ancestors has the forename PASHON as his third name. No idea why, none of the other siblings have any unusual names.

Jean

[Indaloman]

I know someone who was named, poor soul, Marus Auraleus!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sasha]

I have a Major White (GGGGGG Grandfather) who married 4 times.  Haven't found his birth though.  Would it have been a less unusual forename back then?

Andrew

Don't know if it was less unusual but I've got a Major King in my tree, born c.1827 in Lincolnshire.  He had a son also named Major, and a grandson named Agamemnon.  The others in the family have fairly normal names, although Agamemnon had a brother George V. King, but as he was born c.1881, well before George V was crowned or even expected to be King I'm not sure if they meant it as that or not.  Whatever, I've always assumed the family had a bit of a sense of humour. 

[wheeldon]

I came across a Sinister Wheeldon.  So glad he wasn't one of mine 

Have a look at some of the names on the RC board relating to travelling families there are some great/very unusual names but probably not unusual to the travelling folk.