Odd Forenames in your Family?

[Redroger]

Suspect it means "Milk like"

[Sandgroper]

I have a family member whose great aunt was named Alluvial Goldmine in1898.    It was the time of the goldrush in Australia. I would love to have been privy to the conversation when they chose that name.

[Matt790]

Thanks

[Redroger]

I have a family member whose great aunt was named Alluvial Goldmine in1898.    It was the time of the goldrush in Australia. I would love to have been privy to the conversation when they chose that name.

Perhaps they had just made their fortune in an alluvial goldmine. If that is the case, the mind boggles at the possibilities; e.g. what would you call a child born the night you won the lottery? It occurs to me that I knew a man whose father was an inveterate gambler, he said that he would name the baby after the next racecourse he had a winning bet at. The boy was duly named Beverley, could have been worse i suppose, could have been Bangor on Dee. etc.etc.

[marcie dean]

i found a son namedmud.
poor kid
marciedean

[Mavals]

Alchin

Loveless (8th child)

Remillion

My mother in Law was Rimmelion but the name has been used with a variety of spellings thought history

[Redroger]

i found a son namedmud.
poor kid
marciedean

An entry in the 1851 census "Useless" Apparently Useless was a son of the man's wife by a previous marriage. Never did find out his real name, unsurprisingly he had left home before the next census!

[marcie dean]

i have a mud hamilton and a loveday.in another treeand what does duhb mean?
marciedean.

[aghadowey]

i have a mud hamilton and a loveday.in another treeand what does duhb mean?
marciedean.

Perhaps you mean dubh which is the Scottish word for black- usually used as a nickname rather than first name.