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Offline Clarkey500

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Nice names
« on: Wednesday 22 May 13 19:38 BST (UK) »
I was going through my tree and stumbled to someone with the middle name 'Peace' because she was born on the 11 November 1918. Which made me think if there was any other nice middle names/forenames.  :)
Devon: Bibby, Bird, Chaplin, Davey, Littlejohns, Pope, Shire, Sloman, Tucker
Dorset: Gauler
Gloucestershire: Gauler
Hampshire: Kimber
London: Crump, Gauler
Middlesex: Crump
Monmouthshire: Brunt
Northumberland: Bibby
Somerset: Clarke, Dibble, Duddridge, Parsons, Pool, Poole, Shire, Silvester
Surrey: Clarke
Wiltshire: Gauler

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Re: Nice names
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 22 May 13 21:44 BST (UK) »
If you search FreeBMD with just Jubilee, or *Jubliee1 in the forename box, you will find it popping up now and again through the early years of civil registration.  In 1887, however, there are hundreds of births registered  of children who have been given Jubilee as forename.  The same thing happened in 1897. (Queen Victoria's Golden and Diamond Jubilee years)


1 This will find a middle name.
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Re: Nice names
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 23 May 13 09:36 BST (UK) »
What a lovely idea to name a child according to a historic event, especially Peace for one born on Armistice Day.

I have nothing like that in my tree, although I do have a family who for several generations named one of their daughters Truth. 

Another name from my tree is perhaps unusual, Athalia - apparently it was the name of an oratorio by Handel.  I wonder how it came about that an ordinary family gave a child that name?  Perhaps it was popular back in 1830.

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Re: Nice names
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 23 May 13 18:01 BST (UK) »
One of my Grandfathers was called Royal Augustus George ---------.  born 1888

A rather pretentious name for a farmer !!!


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« Reply #4 on: Thursday 23 May 13 18:29 BST (UK) »
I have a Providence Butt in my tree....another one in the same line was called Thankfull  ???
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Re: Nice names
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 26 May 13 14:37 BST (UK) »
I have a string of girls called Pleasant in one branch of my tree.
Rather unfortunately one of the girls married a Mr. Fright  ;D
Weedon - Hertfordshire and W. Australia
Herbertson, Congalton, Paterson - Scotland
Reed, Elmer - Hunts.
Branson - Bucks. and Birmingham
Warren, Ball, Jones - Birmingham
Fuller, Bourne, Sheepwash - Kent
Brittain - Beds. and W. Australia

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Re: Nice names
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 26 May 13 15:34 BST (UK) »
Just yesterday, I discovered the name Amia in my tree from 1700 something or other.  I love the name and it means beloved.  So I spoke to my daughter ( cos I am going to be a great gran in August  :) ) and when I told her the name, she said... uuhm well you had better talk to 'the parents' and guess what when I did they have already chosen the name for the new baby and it is
AMELIA ... oooooo spooky


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Re: Nice names
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 26 May 13 16:21 BST (UK) »
I have a lady with the first name of Virtue!

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Re: Nice names
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 26 May 13 17:23 BST (UK) »
How about Federal Constitution Sprague (1790-1867) born in Massachusetts to Jonathan Sprague and Patience Pidgesley?
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