What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?

[a-l]

Saw this the other day, Onesphorous Power. Is it cheaper than gas? ( sorry,irresistable).                                       Two of mine, Cutting Noyes. Also one with a first name of Colddough.

[CarolA3]

Sadly most in my tree are pretty "normal" but I remember a name from the staff directory at work years ago who would be a great "relative" - his name was Bob Sherunkle!

I think that one was probably a spurious entry introduced by a mischievous staff directory compiler (who was probably bored out of his or her mind at the time ... )

Errrrrr .............. definitely not 'spurious' and probably still living.  I know someone who's met him.

Carol

[spandy]

I was pleased to find these in my tree - Marsden Portice & his wife Charity Woodruffe.
Another relative was named Artemisa, born in 1877.
There a few Euphemia women too, a nice soft name.
I saw a headstone for Philander Thrasher.
Not a name to live up to these days.

[a-l]

A newly discovered ancestor ....Lydia Coffin !

[davethepost]

I have a Knighton Burton (Which has to be said in a thick Northamptonshire accent) and his sister Zilpah

and numerous generations of Anguish Lakes

                       Dave

[Ayashi]

I will always have a soft spot for Septimus Hine... it sounds like something you'd go to a doctor for.

I also have the brothers Brown- Nehemiah and Zephaniah.

One thing I was quite astounded to come across, although sadly not a relative of mine, was a census entry for Mahershalalhashbaz Tobbell lol

[a-l]

lol Ayashi that's a mouthful.

[Ayashi]

Indeed! When I first saw it, I had to check to see if it was real and then looked it up! Unsurprisingly, the poor child is on the next census as "Mashek" lol

[Annie65115]

It seems quite tame compared with some of the above, but my soft spot is reserved for the sister of one of my ancestors, who was called Melesina Tidd.

There have never been many Melesinas around and I wonder where the family got the name (the other siblings were Emma, Cisely and Albert so nothing too dramatic!)