What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?

[Graham47]

Are we starting to make these up? 

[BonnieDownUnder]

My great grand aunt married a Mr. GREY SWAN 

.... was hoping for some inventive children names but alas they went for George, William, Harry etc.,

[mrs.tenacious]

Are we starting to make these up? 

I know mine are genuine - and I don't doubt the others!

My daughter and I both work in primary schools and were comparing notes on interesting/unusual/humorous names of children only last night.  Unfortunately, as they are names of living people I can't divulge them, but trust me in a few years time there may be some family historians having a good chuckle 

[quest40]

The only unusual name in my tree is Athalia Conquest.  Having Googled Athalia, it was an oratorio by Handel about the Queen consort of King Jehoram of Judah.  I wonder how an ordinary working class couple came to give their daughter this name    She was their eldest child and her siblings all had the usual names of William, Thomas, Mary, Elizabeth, etc.

[ggrocott]

Too many to list - I have Fanny Adams and Fanny Fuell plus her sister Philadelphia Fuell.  Not to mention Agrippa Small, Aquila Wallet and several Hepzibahs and Keziahs and we won't even start on the Penduck side of the family!

Seems that the non-conformists were non-conformist in more than religion!  Old Phineas Fox and his son Phineas Frederick Fox listed above sort of paled into insignificance in their company.

Having worked in a school I know what mrs tenacious means about kids names - some parents simply don't seem to engage brain when deciding what to call their poor offspring.  I am wondering when we go from double-barrel to triple barrel surnames as a regular occurrence.

[Graham47]

I know exactly what you mean ggrocott with names and brains. My daughter teaches and tells me some just make her head spin added to which the number of kids with different names to brothers, sisters, Mums and Dads. Confused? She certainly is especially when it comes to those parents evenings.

We know where they get them from but why Cherokee alongside a Cheyenne with Shannon in between? Sky was another one that seems to have waned a bit now, thankfully. Mind you, I looked up my own name a while back and in seems to mean either gravel pit or a hole in the ground - so perhaps I'd best keep schtum!

[blamcca]

I have an ancestor, Fanny Clayfield who married Enos Dyer. Also his mothers name was Honor Willy.

I also have a Spottiswoode Montgomerie.

These have all made me chuckle a bit 

[smiler007]

No doubt someone will correct me on the spelling but I remember a while back on "The Chase" Bradley asked a question on a (I think German lady) named Schmely Fanny.

[JonathanC]

'Fanny Crust' seems to cause some hilarity particularly with my American cousins and, to make things worse, I have 2 of them in my tree.  One was my gg-grandfather's younger sister.

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