Odd Names

[Nicolina]

I've just found a Francis Loose WICK. Whether it was his father's surname, I've yet to discover.

[Annamarie]

Have to add TAWCHER ANBROOKE! Mum must have had a hard time ...

[Tinker]

Oh, poor child! And to make a person feel really unappreciated, how about being lumbered with the names Not Wanted James Colvill, One Too Many Gouldstone or No-merit Vynall!

[Barnzzz]

Just come accross Stanley Victorian Herbert. And also his brother Victor Gordon Herbert, who was born the year after General Gordon died. Their parents must have been very patriotic !

[Nicolina]

and I've just found a female relative with the middle name James!!!!!!! Bet she was confused.

[Tinker]

It's marvellous what baptismal records reveal:
Caractacus Reliance Rathbone
Tweed Ham
Noble Commons
and Percy James Lovely-Smith.

[exiled brummie]

It really is a pity the Norman Conquest saw the demise of so many Anglo-Saxon names. Imagine, had it not been for William we could be searching wonderful names like Aethelbert, Aethelbald, Oswyth, Offa, Uffa, Yffi and, my favourite, Thingfrith.

In 1939 a single mother from Birmingham was actually allowed to register her son as Adolph. No, it wasn't me, I could walk by then.

[Tinker]

Nicolina, if you think that little girl was confused, how about this one?:
A female child in South Africa was baptised 'Willem Hendrik Johannes Jacobus' because her grandfather insisted that she be given his Christian names!! The minister put a note to this effect in the register, but I don't think he approved. I bet her first name was converted to Willemina when the old boy was out of earshot.

[Tinker]

Here's another batch of 'unusual' first names found while browsing through images on FamilySearch:
Speciline
Gleneth
Lawmary
Netlam Tory
Bridella
Hazilia
Wendelena
Perthenia
Higera
Pax
and last but not least, Beanland!

[BayHorse]

Not for the first time I've just come across a 'Belly Throp'.

I expect the census writer forgot to cross his t's, but every time I see it I have an image of an old lady leaping off a diving board.