Odd Forenames in your Family?

[marcie dean]

my husbands tre there is a joseph ticke and an elizabeth pottle
and i have foun another load of smiths just when i thought it could not get any worse
marji.

[heywood]

Grandad was born 1877 and his middle name was Delhi. There is a child registered in the family of same (full) name in 1870 who died.
They were Lancashire mill workers.

He was really proud of his name which he pronounced with a long 'i' sound but don't think he ever knew why he was named that. The rest of the family had relatively ordinary names.

[confused73]

I have two members of my family called Friend,There is no connection with Quakers so where the name came from I have no idea.Up until then they had used the names,John Alexander,or William.

[Redroger]

I have seen the name "Friend" used by non Quakers in Yorkshire in the 1980s. I suppose no one is likely to quarrel with a person called Friend.

[marcie dean]

i have been spending tme on my smith family tree as if i did not have enough already,i found a william smith living with s msry smith(whom i thought were brother and sister with a family in aberdeen one son was named thomas which is ok another george,and another named anstruther.

[GrahamSimons]

I have found some with Orceneth as a Christian name in the US.

While on that point, I have some Scots female ancestors called Christian: looks like this changed from being a girl's name to a boy's name at the end of the 19th century?

[lancs-lassie]

I have a relative in my tree with the forename Servetus, sounds to have Latin origins to me! His surname is less impressive - Heap!

[Churchie]

Not sure if she belongs to my family or not, but came across the name Cyllenius Martha Maddock whilst researching a possible ancestor.
Liz

I have three generations of Xantippe Maddocks in my tree - I wonder if they are related!

I am also fond of Christmas as a first name, very common in Wales.

[GrahamSimons]

Tertius sounds Latin to me, perhaps a link to their father being a grammar school master

Tertius is third so third-born; I found a Septimus (seventh) with five known older brothers, gave me the clue to look for and find the sixth.