Genealogy Chat

My 5x great grandparents called their sons Gustavus Adolphus George Albion. Ninion Sheraton Alfred Jubilee Michelle

Lucky you Michelle. Mine are all called John and George. Do you know how many John and George Greenleys there were living in Yorkshire between 1750 and 1901. Flippin' hundreds that's how many! Rant over! lol

My Nan, bless her had to live with the name, Ivy Isabella Fallover. Also a cousin of my grt grt grandmother was Fanny Seller. Maxine

Mentioning the subject to my husband, he reminded me of a young lad he had dealings with a few years ago, the poor lad was lunbered with the name VALENTINO TIT. Jennifer

My parents must have had a sense of humour.and my initials are looked for all over the world.I vandalised the pyrimids with it years ago WC

These are not in my family tree but names I have come across during many years of teaching: Austin Seven , Annette Kerton, Orson Cart and the daughters of a professor of music, Melody and Harmony Keyworthy

My hubby`s great grandmother was called STEWART (first name) and her mother. Why? I`ve got a EUPHAM-female thought it was male at first! Rosalyn

On a census return - a nurse called Priscilla Duck Pat

Gosh, you lot are really playing with fire with this thread...... Old Crone

And not a beaver mentioned! lol

i have a Bunting born 1826 with the christian name BETHING i also remember seeing a book once called 'Sliding Down The Bannister' by Sue R Arce

This is one that was passed on to me Via email A scholar at one of the Private schools in England had a teacher named Bates. All the students had to call him Master Bates Hope I don't get into trouble for this one Jackie

Martin - I think I've read that book! lol Jackie - We had a teacher at school called Bob Downs! lol

this is a real name: Jolly Sadd

while walking through Darnall cemetery Sheffield this week noticed this grave inparticular John Beever also wife Fanny

I was sure it couldn't be true when I got the info off a lookup from a member here on GR, so I went to great lengths to make sure I had been given right info. Seems my gtgtgrandfathers sister Fanny Goodfellow married Thomas Badcock, my sister told me she was glad some names didn't make it this far down the line. - who am I to talk, look what I did to my children, I married Ray Titman cheers Laurie

to return to genealogy, the National Archives website is running a news story about an 1861 census enumerator called Isaac Hunt http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/63.htm

ah Beever - that reminds me of another thread. :-) Joy

What about the gender of names?? My son's middle name is Christian, so when I found Victorian Christian's on my tree, at first I thought they were boys, but then realised it was a girl's name then..... I expect we all know who Shirley Crabtree and Marion Robert Morrison were? What other names might I get mixed up over?? Sarah

Patience was a boy's name once, though very rare