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Elvedine - An unusual christian name?
« on: Thursday 30 March 06 21:22 BST (UK) »
Hi all,

Has anybody else got an Elvedine in their family.....we had a spate of them in one family.....then a couple of generations later it cropped again.

I had never come across the name until I started doing the family history!

Joe
Hickey, Graham (Offaly, Dublin, Scotland)
Maguire, Morgan (Cavan, Dublin, Louth)
Clifton (Kent)
Creasey (sussex
Davis, Judge (Ireland, Dublin, Kildare)
Metcalfe, Pratt (Yorkshire Dales)
Rice (sussex)
Brady (Cavan. Dublin)
Kent (Oxford,Kent, London, Sussex)
Patten (Essex, London, Kent)
Ridg(e)well (Toppesfield, Essex)

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Re: Elvedine - An unusual christian name?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 19 April 06 16:13 BST (UK) »
Never heard of it - it is a biblical name?

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Re: Elvedine - An unusual christian name?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 19 April 06 16:14 BST (UK) »
Sounds more like a place name!
Reynolds, Woodham, Payne, Wilmott, Hart, Richardson, Packwood, Tandy, Dexter - Bedfordshire.
Chamberlain and Wagstaff- Hunts.
Freeman, Cheney, Cox- Northants.
Burns, Muter, Cobban, Hossack, Strachan, Moonlight.
Lanarkshire, Ross and Cromarty and Kincardineshire.
Garvey- Ireland.

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Re: Elvedine - An unusual christian name?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 19 April 06 16:18 BST (UK) »
Hi,

Could it be a surname? Have found a few cases in my tree of mother's maiden name being given to a son.


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Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
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Re: Elvedine - An unusual christian name?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 19 April 06 18:47 BST (UK) »
Possibly a form of Alverdine which is in itself an unusual feminine form of Alfred?

Alv/Alf/Elv all = Elf in Old English names.
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Re: Elvedine - An unusual christian name?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 19 April 06 19:20 BST (UK) »
Just had a look at my surname atlas (based on 1881 census); no Elvedine as surname but did find Elveline as christian name.

Could the 'd' be 'l'?

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Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: Elvedine - An unusual christian name?
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 19 April 06 19:38 BST (UK) »
just being nosy  ;D
i did a Google for Elvedine
and the name is still in use  :P
and found a Dr Elvedine Wilkerson !!

she was a school principal see
http://www.paprofiles.org/pa0001/pdf/INT3721.pdf

perhaps she knows where her name originated.......... :) :)

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Re: Elvedine - An unusual christian name?
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 19 April 06 19:44 BST (UK) »
Hi all,

Our Elvedines are all male, and with one exception are in the Ridley Family...I have not had any success in the censuses with any others.

Thanks for all your interesting comments.

Joe
Hickey, Graham (Offaly, Dublin, Scotland)
Maguire, Morgan (Cavan, Dublin, Louth)
Clifton (Kent)
Creasey (sussex
Davis, Judge (Ireland, Dublin, Kildare)
Metcalfe, Pratt (Yorkshire Dales)
Rice (sussex)
Brady (Cavan. Dublin)
Kent (Oxford,Kent, London, Sussex)
Patten (Essex, London, Kent)
Ridg(e)well (Toppesfield, Essex)

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Re: Elvedine - An unusual christian name?
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 22 April 06 15:18 BST (UK) »
Hi,
   Did find a birth reg.in 1891 in Sussex for

   Elvydine Somerset Ridley.

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Joburg
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