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Offline Gillg

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Floral names
« on: Wednesday 08 October 14 10:57 BST (UK) »
My father-in-law had seven brothers, all with good Anglo-Saxon names, but his three sisters were called Rose, Violet and Daisy.  There were many jokes about the sweet-smelling girls in the family. 

I suppose flower names were and still remain popular, e.g. Lily, Marigold, and so on, but to have three of them in a family is a bit much.  Of course, there's always Hyacinth Bucket (Boo-kay) and her sisters Rose, Daisy and Violet, who had room for a pony!
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FAIREY/FAIRY/FAREY/FEARY, LAWSON, CHURCH, BENSON, HALSTEAD from Easton, Ellington, Eynesbury, Gt Catworth, Huntingdon, Spaldwick, Hunts;  Burnley, Lancs;  New Zealand, Australia & US.

HURST, BOLTON,  BUTTERWORTH, ADAMSON, WILD, MCIVOR from Milnrow, Newhey, Oldham & Rochdale, Lancs., Scotland.

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 08 October 14 11:01 BST (UK) »
Sounds like April, May, and June, Daisy Duck's nieces.
There are a lot of floral names. Our granddaughter is Jasmine, so floral names are still in vogue.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 08 October 14 11:39 BST (UK) »
My mother tried very hard to convince me Lily Blossom would be a great name for my daughter  (with Lily-Bee for short)  ;D  I actually didn't mind it  - but it didn't happen!

Holly, Poppy are very popular present day.

The previously popular, common garden Iris, Ivy, Heather, Flora - and the more unusual Aster, Briar, Pansy, Petunia,  Myrtle, Laurel, Primrose....

And of course Olive Oyl's  / Popeye's Swee' Pea  ;D

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 09 October 14 00:54 BST (UK) »
My mum was Flora, so was her mum ... I'm  the 3rd daughter and I somehow inherited it as one of my names, though mum was the 3rd daughter as well ... may be  part of reason  :-\ ... I've grown into it  ;D didn't let anyone know when I was young but I like it now.  *Added, I only had two daughters  :D

In extended family, floral ones I can think of at the moment ... ages 8, 33 and 99, are Lily, Heather and Violet.

At our last home, I had neighbours; Iris, Rose and Ivy ... plus a Daphne not far away  :)

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 09 October 14 12:45 BST (UK) »
I have a really useful textbook - "The Agricultural Notebook" - by Primrose McConnell. The surprise here was that Primrose was male!
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 09 October 14 13:24 BST (UK) »
My grand-daughter is Lily Rose.

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« Reply #6 on: Thursday 09 October 14 15:24 BST (UK) »
The wife of Ricky Fulton, the late actor's character the Rev' I.M.Jolly, was Euphrasia, she never actually materialised and was left very much to the viewers imagination.  ;D

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 09 October 14 16:17 BST (UK) »
From one of my very favourite TV programmes and of course before that the novel -
Zinnia and Petunia Larkin                                         The Darling Buds Of May.

Zinnia and Orchid  - unusual but lovely.
Looby :)

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 09 October 14 22:12 BST (UK) »
Don't forget Ericia,and Veronica both flower names.  My daughter has Rose for a middle name, only due to my grandfather loving Roses.
TEW family of Leire/Leicester and New Zealand
MERRICKS of Stafford/Birmingham
PENTECOST of Surrey and New Zealand
POTENTIER of France, England and Canada
WATKINS of London and New Zealand
WHITAKER of Guiseley Yorkshire and New Zealand
LYALL, of Dundee, Caithness and New Zealand

And far too many to add
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