Genealogy Chat

Just adding a few of mine :0)))) Herodias, known as Rhoda Augustus, Adolphus and my favourite....3 generations of Zebedee!!

chief cook and bottle Washer Are the parents of Quinell (assuming he is fairly young) rugby fans - as perhaps he is named after Scott, Craig and Gavin Quinell all rugby players (6ft8' 20+stone so my colleague advises me!) Bo

Temperance lol!Suz

I work in a doctors surgery and we have registered at present. Levi, denim and linen ( all one family) Edward teddy Bear ( honestly!) Anastasia, christabella, tallula, lilleth Jenkins-jones ( what a mouthfull for 1 child) Robert roberts ( no imagination!) quinnell (your quess is as good as mine where that comes from) Honey Bee Halycion Days But the best is ....... Casper Ghost! I swear im not making these up !! LOL

I was telling the OH about this yesterday when he announced that he had wanted to call his son....... Heathcliffe Moss Needless to say is then wife wouldn't let him! There is a Cosmo Reuben (who is still in single figures) and a teenage Talitha in the family so in the distant future hopefully descendants will be glad of the unusual names! Bo

Followig on from the Beckhams, I taught 4 siblings named Clinton Carmel Harry Maddison Guess which film star their parents liked? Jay

I have a MADORA in 1851. Paul

lmao Shrapnell? Honking? oh dear lord... some of our ancestors names shouldn't be revived lol. You have to wonder what some people were thinking.

hi everyone i have a christmas jessie winter and a nimrod broxup lynnx

oooh how could I forget Hepzibah! I like the name Loveday, too! :)

The most unusual in my tree is Tryphenia,and in my husbands it's Nehushta. Two of the strangest names I've found whilst searching through various records are Quintilian Gantlett and Kickweed Jennings! Sandra. xxx

We have the following:- Hepzibah Vivaldi Shrapnell Honking Martin Luther Update...found more even more strange:- Decima Zipporah Dedimiah

In one prolific family, I have boys called Allison(2), Oman, Lovel(2), Harrison and Simpson - all surnames on the maternal side. At least they are easy to trace. My father's cousin was called Laola, not many of those around. Jay

My husband's gran was Nuldica. When she was born her father had one too many wetting the baby's head then toddled off to the registery office. He was actually trying to spell Lucinda! I also have a Dyar (male). It only ever came up the once, so the family must have disliked it or him.....lol Deb:)

Easter Swallow,female,is my most unusual name Sheila

I have Waterman Chatterton........he's been so easy to find on every census. Only related by marriage though linda

I have a Loveday too Laura (that is if the bloke my dad was told was his dad really was LOL) I think it's a lovely name, but she was known as Grace!!! What I really liked about Sylvanus, (which means 'of the woods') was that mine was a hedger!! I could have understood my G grandad and gg uncles using their second names - but they didn't!! They just seemed to have chosen random names. I have a few other ancestors that did this - very confusing!! maggie

Laura, obviously they wanted expensive motors but couldn't afford it. Can just imagine it... 'Oh I'm picking up Mercedes but Ferrari is at home. lol I have a Sulvanus, but I did notice that the time, it wasn't that unusual a name... I mean, it wasn't as popular as George or Frederick but still, several on the census. He was known as John (his middle name) and when I told dad he had an uncle Sulvenus... he was all huh? He mentioned it to his cousin and she was like... yeah.. that was my dad. LOL. So weird names can be the best kept secret in a family lol. I have cousins with unusual names for the UK and finding their marriages was an absolute doddle.

I have a Loveday, and a Mahala - plus a few other biblical ones further back, but only the Loveday one is directly related to me - lol. Odd names around, but then I guess they would think some of the names around today are shocking. At the school my mum works at there used to be a family with children named Mercedes, Bentley and Harley with a cousin called Ferrari!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now Mercedes I quite like, a pretty spanish name, but the rest?! OMG! Laura

My grandfather and his siblings were given unusual names: Gifford Sylvanus Ivor. Unfortunately as soon as they could, they used the names: Sidney Herbert Frederick Grandad even has the name Sidney on his gravestone!! They were awful to trace!!! Had to g through their sister, Beatrice , who didn't change her name! maggie