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That is, Florence.

I had to look up what St Margaret is the patron saint of.

It's Pregnancy!! :-0

My grandmother's middle name was Cecelia. She grew up and became a private music teacher.
St Cecelia is the Patron saint of music!

I find that quite spooky.

Florence
in the hebrides

Sounds interesting - must put it on my list of books for birthdays/Christmas! :-D

No Maggie his name is Ed Pyrnn he is on Facebook, he could not read or write “not sure if this still applies” but he’s written two books about growing up and his life in st merryn, he signed that for me but you could tell he found it hard. I knew everyone in the second book.

Linda, the druid isn't Arthur Pendragon is it?

My daughter has just found one of our ancient (but done up in Georgian times), ancestral homes is for sale!

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/harlyn-house-padstow-millionaire-552505

Well Maggie I’m my eyes st merryn is a very joyous place to be. There’s a very well known Druid that lives there Mum and dad lived opposite him and his mother and father, when I took my parter down there in the early 90s he “married us for a year” he lots of famas people visit him including Margaret Thatcher who holidayed in the area

Do you think our ancestors are in our psyche?

Lynda, I asked my daughter why she called my Grand daughter Merry - apparently, it means joyous! :-D <3

Maggie I was born in Redruth and lived in st merryn, although we moved up to Middlesex I still call it home lovely place to grow up. When I went to work in a school at meal time one of the girls we had to look after was called Merryn I asked her where Mum got the name from and of course she said we lived in st merryn made me feel very home sick

I had an aunt who had no knowledge about her great grandparents it was only when I did a little research into family history that we discovered she had named two of her children the same names , John and Julia.

My paternal GGM was named Roseanna Galloway, daughter of Samuel Galloway.
Her husband was Francis Irvine. They named their son Samuel Galway Irvine.
He married and had two sons named Samuel Galway Irvine (to two differant wives)
Samuel Galway Irvine (my GF) had a second son named Samuel Galway Irvine, my Father. He named me David Galway Irvine.The Galway is a corruption of Glloway.
My Father had a sister named Rose Anne named after her GM.
There's a lot of Samuels in my tree :-D

Spooky too, Sylvia!

maggie .........

Spooky, yes!!

But I have a similar ...........


when our daughter was born I gave her a name that I had seen in a novel I read some time in the mid-1960s. I'm not going to give the name here as it is very unusual, but suffice to say that I loved it, had never heard it before. The novel was set in the 18th century in Norfolk or Lincolnshire

When OH's father was told the name, he immediately said "Oh, we had Aunt xxxxx, but you've spelled the name wrong, it should have 1 letter more".

Aunt was born in the 1860s and only died just before WW2, so f-i-l knew her well.

Fast forward to 4 or 5 years ago when I got a break through on OH's tree and got back to 1625 ................ our daughter's name was present through the generations all the way back. I have no doubt that it would be present in earlier generations if I could find the connections.

The spellings vary from being exactly the same to having 1 letter less or 1 letter more.

The family originates in the current day Cumbria area.

My youngest named her second daughter Merryn.
Merryn is now 5 months old.
St Merryn is a place in Cornwall.
I'm sure no-one in the family has been there, though we (my siblings and I) lived in Mevagissey and Callington.
My gran was born in St Erth and lived for 30 odd years in Liskeard.
My dad was born in St Michael Penkivel,

It was only a couple of weeks ago, my nephew traced one of our Cornish sides 4 generations further back than I had, to the Killigrews (15th Century).
I've since done a bit of research on the families I didn't have - just to be sure - and managed to go back even further!
Toffs are a lot easier to trace than ag labs!

Apparently, one John Michell, who married Jane Killigrew, was not only an MP, (with a sideline in Piracy like his father in law and brother in law), but Mayor of Truro in 1584, and ......had the manor of Harlyn in St Merryn!

Spooky! :-S