Battles and Commanders names used as forenames

[fiddlerslass]

A couple of warrior queens to add to the list

Births Sep 1865   
Walley    Boadecia        Wolstanton    6b   123    
Births Jun 1875   
Gradwell    Boadecia         Manchester    8d   334

[DianaCanada]

Looks like there were 680 babies given the name Kitchener in Ontario, mostly as middle names, and most of them were born during WW1.  There is a city named Kitchener in Ontario, its name changed from its original of Berlin, in 1916.

Found an Alexandrina Douglas Haig Hill born in 1916 in Ontario - in the town of Wellington!
Quite a few babies given the names Douglas Haig.

[tonepad]

Not always what it seems:

I have a Nelson middle name, born 1848. But the first name of his grandfather was Nelson, he was born in 1768. Admiral Horatio Nelson was only ten years old in 1768!

However I do have a lady with the middle name Verdun born in 1916.


and a conflict named after a person -

The War of Jenkins' Ear

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear



Tony

[Nanna52]

I have a distant cousin with the middle name Messines.   
Also have a line who remembers a brother killed in WW1 who repeatedly use his name to this day.  Those children are told about him as they grow older.  Personally I think that is more appropriate than naming after commanders.

[garden genie]

Since females seem to be under-represented in this thread take a look at Pretoria. FreeBMD say there were 496 births of that name in 1900, compared with 1 in the years 1890-95

[Nanna52]

I have one in my tree born 1900.