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Re: Floral names
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 11 October 14 18:34 BST (UK) »
Some more names girls names from the garden.

Camelia
Daphne
Jenny
Jonquil
Marguerite
Rosemary
Virginia
Willow
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 11 October 14 19:38 BST (UK) »
Our local  florist had two Saturday girls: Heather and Rose. Yes, perfectly true.
With regards the naming of girls ( and indeed, boys) I feel the name should be suitable for a little girl but also for a Prime Minister!

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 11 October 14 20:16 BST (UK) »
I was christened Gillian Marguerite. The Marguerite was intended to be after my great grandmother, Margaretha, but I guess her son, my grandfather, pronounced it as Margrit (actually a Swiss name) and my mother came up with Marguerite.

Whitlow: Witton-cum-Twambrooks/Northwich
Bowers: Marthall, Siddington, Cheshire
Owen: Cheshire
Pfisterer (Fisher): West Riding Yks 1850-1875
Fisher (Pfisterer): Des Moines, Iowa 1886-
Wallis: West Riding Yks/Des Moines, Iowa, 1892-
Heinzmann: Hull/Northwich
Pfisterer, Heinzmann, Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg
Brueck: Kocherstetten B-W
Volpp: Morsbach B-W
Schluchterer: Künzelsau, B-W

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 11 October 14 21:50 BST (UK) »
I know two women called Holly, both born near Christmas.

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 12 October 14 05:43 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Gillg on Saturday 11 October 14 09:24 BST (UK)
Ruskie
By Virtue names I guess you mean Charity, Prudence, Clemency(my favourite), Chastity (see "Emmerdale") etc.  Difficult to live up to, especially the last one.  ::) I had a friend called Melody - it just didn't suit her at all.  She couldn't even sing in tune. :D

Couldn't help but be reminded here of one of mum's younger sisters who became a nun ... she actually took the name Marguerite for the profession btw ... when she had her 50th jubilee, she laughingly admitted to everyone that as a child, the thought the 3 virtues were Faith, Hope and Cherry Tree  ;D


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Re: Floral names
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 12 October 14 11:59 BST (UK) »
Not only girls!
When I worked at our DVA (War Veterans) hospital in the 1990s, there was a returned soldier called Field Flowers.  And a few years later, I saw his father's funeral notice, with the same name!

Dawn M
PS  They are both deceased, now.
Denys (France); Rossier/Rousseau (Switzerland); Montgomery (Antrim, IRL & North Sydney NSW);  Finn (Co.Carlow, IRL & NSW); Wilson (Leicestershire & NSW); Blue (Sydney NSW); Fisher & Barrago & Harrington(all Tipperary, IRL)

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 12 October 14 13:48 BST (UK) »
In my own family tree I have:
Iris, Ivy, Lily Daisy, Lily Rose, Lily, Rose, Violet, Rosemary, Primrose, May, Myrtle.


Virtuous names: Virtue, Grace, Honora, Freelove, Mercy, Patience, Worthy, Charity, Prudence.
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #25 on: Sunday 12 October 14 15:18 BST (UK) »
Quote from: KGarrad on Sunday 12 October 14 13:48 BST (UK)
In my own family tree I have:
Iris, Ivy, Lily Daisy, Lily Rose, Lily, Rose, Violet, Rosemary, Primrose, May, Myrtle.


Virtuous names: Virtue, Grace, Honora, Freelove, Mercy, Patience, Worthy, Charity, Prudence.

You don't have a family tree!!  You have a family garden.  ;D


Added. Btw  Freelove  doesn't sound very virtuous   :o

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Re: Floral names
« Reply #26 on: Sunday 12 October 14 15:37 BST (UK) »
My fault!
I should have given her full name!

Freelove Godly! ;D ;D

Honestly! b 1790, d1819, from Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)
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