Old fashioned names

[jaybelnz]

I still use Dorcas pins!  Plastic containers now, with a wee foam pin cushion on the lid! 👍

[PeeCeeBee]

My grand-daughter, Matilda, has a schoolfriend, Mabel...
Imagine my wonderment when we welcomed Hadrian and Sidney to the midst.
Then another daughter has Jesse and Walter.
When Walter arrived I had someone comment that that was an old man's name... I replied, well even an old man had to be a baby once!!!

[bettyespana]

Dorcas -  Something biblical to do with sewing IIRC ?

I recall that my mum had a tin of pins, brand name Dorcas, a pale blue tin with a concave lid.

EDIT: Easily found by Googling http://www.madebypin.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Dorcas-Pins.jpg

Do you know what I seem to recall my Gran having them in her drapery shop  & even though Dorcas was a name in the family I never connected the two.

[jaybelnz]

Just been looking back through my tree, and another of a friend, and came across some more names.

Whitefield (I might have already mentioned that one, my ggfather - it was a very popular Durham name- his surname was Watson, and there are thousands of them in Durham.) Jeremiah, Moses, Luke, Peter, Robin, Lawrence, Herbert, Farnum, George, Victor.

And for the ladies, Lilian, Elspeth, Euphemia, Robina, Susan, Susannah, Helen, Jessie, Marion, Violet and Maud. My daughter's name is Stephanie, and don't see many of those either.  I was at school with a girl named Willa! Never heard that one before.

[clairec666]

Oh yes, Euphemia, I'd forgotten about that one. Seems to have died out completely, along with Lucretia.

[..claire..]

I'd always considered my children's names as rather old (Hannah, Matthew, Anthony and Marie) and thought my granddaughters name was too modern (Perdy Beau) but found out Perdy is quite an old name too

[Andrew Tarr]

Whitefield (I might have already mentioned that one, my ggfather - it was a very popular Durham name- his surname was Watson, and there are thousands of them in Durham.) Jeremiah, Moses, Luke, Peter, Robin, Lawrence, Herbert, Farnum, George, Victor.

My wife's middle name is Whitfield, which we traced to Alston in far-east Cumberland.  There it is/was a common surname, but also a given name, so there were Whitfield Whitfields.  Her strain moved east to Derwentside and became Pattinsons, but that's another story.

In my 1830s work I have just turned up a Rhoda - that's another oldie ....

[ThrelfallYorky]

Reginald, Rudolph and Ernest, Abraham, Nathan and Ezra.
Georgiana, Gladys, Gertrude. Nellie/Ellen, Hildegard, Agnes

[bettyespana]

Oh yes, Euphemia, I'd forgotten about that one. Seems to have died out completely, along with Lucretia.

I too had forgotten about Euphemia but that was from way back.She was a mistress of James,King of Scotland.

My latest little Gt. Grand-daughter is Florence  & another one is Penelope. Both old names.