What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?

[everlea]

Bring back those old names I say! 

I agree - but today they'd be harder to live with!

[Annui]

Oh!  LOL!  that reminded me of a pairing I'd overlooked which fits here:

My paternal great grandmother, Fanny, married gt-grandfather John Thomas. 

[everlea]

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Oh!  LOL!  that reminded me of a pairing I'd overlooked which fits here:

My paternal great grandmother, Fanny, married gt-grandfather John Thomas. 
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Oh no!!!! A match made in Heaven!!!!!

[clayton bradley]

 I like your Parthenia, Janet. I have a (very distant) Parthenia and I've found a few others round my mum's area of Lancashire. What I can't work out is why they liked it especially as most of the parents couldn't even spell the name! I know it means maiden or virgin but why 19th century Lancastrians in the cotton industry were interested in Athena I can't imagine, claytonbradley

[everlea]

Sorry about the state of last post - cat walked across keyboard!

[Designer Jeans]

Seven generations of Benedicta

[mrs.tenacious]

3.   Doris Devine (she sounds like a 40s film star)

2.   Montague Kerley

but my winner, and favourite..................

1. Fanny Burns  (ouch!)

[bykerlads]

My grtgrandparents - Jabez and Hosetta Mellor.
Also,grtgrandfather's- brother- Damon Hill ( well before motor&racing cars, though!)

[Designer Jeans]

Honky Hole