General Chat

Apparently, in France, names have to be from an approved list. According to the paper today, a French Judge has just refused to allow two sets of parents to call their daughters "Nutella" The parents had hoped that the girls would grow up to be as sweet and popular as the spread. I am not making this up. Bob

the males in my paternal line - Williams - alternated between David and John - not easy to follow Williams in Wales, but fortunately they came from the same area - the area where I now live and I have managed to get them back to the 1700's so I'm quite pleased about that - I walk in their footsteps most days :-)

In one of OH's families, the names Cuthbert and Gilbert occurred in every generation from at least the early 1600s up to the 1900s

Unfortunately, the family split into 2 branches sometime in the mid to late-1600s ..................... BOTH branches continued to use Cuthbert and Gilbert

They all seemed to prefer to marry women called Elizabeth


Not only that, but both branches were corn millers,

both branches moved back and forth between 2 counties in northern England



and both branches could, at different times, live and work at the same corn mill and / or farm ........ even doing a sort of familial switch between themselves!



It's an absolute nightmare trying to make sure one is following the correct branch!



Especially when the moves happened between censuses :-)




No-one has managed to find the common ancestor .........................



............ not even all the Americans who trace their ancestry back to the one who went to Pennsylvania around 1680, and who are desperate to get back to before 1630 :-)


The family did adhere to the Quakers, especially in the 17th to early 19th centuries .............. hence all the moving around, probably due to harassment and persecution ...........

........... although they married in CofE churches, and the parish registers are still in existence, with some of them even on the internet

My name is not there but both my brother and sisters first and middle names are. Not surprised to see John and William up there. At least one and usually both names appear in my paternal grandfathers line every generation going back over two hundred years.

My family tree is full of Catherine, Margaret, Isabella, Mary........ and for the men, James, George, Robert & William

quite a few named Mungo & Brodie

Lots of men named Archibald.......... and an unfortunate grand-daughter of one of them who was named Archibaldina.

several of the boys names were repeated over the years down my father's side .......... beginning in 1740 with James, and ending with my father given the same in 1904 :-)



Several of the girls' names (Ruth, Margaret, etc) were given to my cousins between 1924 and 1932



but no Hannah's, Clara's, Louise, etc etc

Gosh, from 100 + years ago - only an Alice from the girls names- and she was known as Nell :-S

An Arthur and a Charles - both named after their fathers, on the male side.

No Ethelreda or Wolfran? (both names on my Suffolk side - from 2 different families!!) :-D

Actually, Wolfran was from 200 years ago. My, how time flies :-(

from 100 years ago

http://babyology.com.au/miscellaneous/what-parents-were-calling-their-babies-100-years-ago.html?utm_source=paid.outbrain.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=general

...... no Mungo or Brodie? Maybe they were only popular names in Scotland......... with my lot :-D