Battles and Commanders names used as forenames

[KGarrad]

The Boar war is a good example of how battles and Military men can influence baby names.

That would be the Boer war!

Dutch/Afrikaans for farmer.

[fiddlerslass]

 Oops, of course I do know that!

[Darnity]

Nelson and Wellington were popular given names amongst the Travelling community.

[fiddlerslass]

This family has amused me in the past

1851 Richmond Yorkshire
Mark Anthony Dempster head
Ann                                      wife
Mary.                                  Daughter
Julius Caesar                     son
Marcus Brutus.                   Son
Jessie.                                 Daughter
Augustus Caesar.               Son

Piece    2381
Folio    146
Page number    22

Keeping the Roman theme going, by 1861 they had added Cicero to the family.

I am sure they could have come up with some military related female names if they had tried a bit harder. Hippolyta for one springs to mind.

[GrahamSimons]

I've seen Verdun as well.

[willsy]

Have Inkerman as a middle name for a relative

[Raybistre]

A quite long lasting forename is Glyndwr, over 5000 on freebmd. Taken from Owain Glyndwr the welsh leader who fought against the english in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. One of my uncles had this forename. Another had the middle name Dorrien from General Horace Smith-Dorrien under whom his father, (my grandfather), had served in WW I.
Ray

[fiddlerslass]

If you run out of inspiration, you can always use the rank of your hero. Thus there was

Births Sep 1850   
Cook    Captain         Bury    21   314


Births Mar 1840   
Nelson    Admiral      Wigan    21   817

[coombs]

I found a baptism in Sussex in 1806 of a Horatio (cannot remember the surname) but the middle name was of course - Nelson.