Odd Forenames in your Family?

[Churchie]

And while I'm on the subject, my gg grandfather was Cobbett Davies, with a brother Naasson Davies.

Any ideas where they came from? Welsh again... parents were named John and Mary Davies, so maybe they fancied something a bit different!

Caroline.

[bykerlads]

Still looking for another Hosetta, like my ggrandmother...
Also, have always rather liked the man called Original Bower, not a relative, but who appeared often as a neighbour to my forebears on the mid-1800's.

[Carra]

With parents from Leeds and Stockport, I don't think that a Falklands connection is as likely as the James Macpherson one.

I hadn't heard of him, but I'm not exactly well up on the literature popular in mid-Victorian times.

I wouldn't be so sure about the Falklands connection. Nothing to do with peoples names but there are two properties a couple of miles from Prestbury in Cheshire (not that far from Stockport); one called Goose Green Farm and one was called Falkland Cottage, although its name was changed couple of years ago. I've often wondered where the names came from. 

[Marmalady]

Although not unusual names, I have always wondered why my father and two of his cousins (all born in 1920's) were all called Trevor Douglas. The Trevor part we can just about explain away as it was the second name of the father of one of the three, but we have no idea why it was paired with Douglas each time

Otherwise the most unusual names are the several generations of Francis Drake Walrond Wheaton

[LDW]

I can offer Hazelelponi. Her parents were so keen to have her that when the first one died aged 2, they called the next daughter Hazelelponi as well.

It comes from I Chronicles 43.

BTW, returning to Mager, could it be a variant of Moger? I knew a Moger once: he always got miscalled Roger of course.

[Churchie]

I have a job davies whose mother was eleanor father unknown who named one ofhis daughters mary after a sister of the same name.
marcie on my marsh brown fanily tree which is my husbands tree
marcie]

Hi Marcie, I have some Jobs in my tree too. Naasson and Cobbett had brothers Jason and Joel, so their parents were quite creative for the time. The names passed down through the generations, except Cobbett, which I have never seen anywhere else.
Caroline.

[bykerlads]

I think it's rather good that we live in countries where you are allowed an almost free choice when naming your children- I understand that in some countries eg Portugal there is a limited list of first names which the state allows you to use!!

[GrahamSimons]

I think it's rather good that we live in countries where you are allowed an almost free choice when naming your children- I understand that in some countries eg Portugal there is a limited list of first names which the state allows you to use!!

....but there are limits: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/24/familyandrelationships.newzealand

[JKS60]

I would say, offhand, the most nonstandard of miner I can think of would be my great-grandfather, Orestes Doe.