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What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« on: Tuesday 07 March 06 22:07 GMT (UK) »
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 15 March 06 20:58 GMT (UK) »
There was Zeno on my family tree.  He had two sisters called Lucretia and Albinia!  The family were an English family with no foreign ancestry, but I've certainly never heard anyone else in England called those names before!

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 15 March 06 21:30 GMT (UK) »
Hello ballgarside - These sound like circus people - were they? Perhaps you can tell us more about them - where they lived - occupations. Thanks.......

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 16 March 06 20:49 GMT (UK) »
The name I love the most is ... Angel Dore Veater

But the funniest of all ... Tom Shirt - OK not that funny until you know the story.  There is a little hamlet in Derbyshire between Chapel-en-le-Frith & Chinley called "The Wash" and Tom is buried there hence ...

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 17 March 06 15:01 GMT (UK) »
Theophilus Rivers and Paramus Webb.

Also have seen an Onesiphous Flack along the way.

Am gonna call my kids these! (only kidding!)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 18 March 06 11:30 GMT (UK) »
In response to your post Emmeline, Zeno, Albinia and co were not circus people as far as I know.  Their father was William Blake, a farmer and later a publican from Buckinghamshire.  William had several children by his first marriage to Elizabeth who all had normal names.  Then he married Penelope Ginger (whose family farmed at the hamlet of Little Hampden back to Elizabethan times).  William and Penelope's first children were Laura, William and Ada, normal enough.  Then they started losing the plot a bit with Lucretia, Albinia and Zeno.  Perhaps William had so many children that he ran out of normal names.  However, although William's father was Nathaniel Russell Blake from Buckinghamshire, his mother was not named on the parish register.  Perhaps she was foreign or maybe she was in the circus.  I would be interested to know the origins of these names if anyone knows them.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 18 March 06 14:21 GMT (UK) »
Hi

My Grandmother is called Albina, originally she is from Lithuania.
As far as i'm aware, it come from 'Albus' meaning white.

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« Reply #7 on: Saturday 18 March 06 17:21 GMT (UK) »
Lucretia comes from a Roman family name, and Zeno is a Greek name, meaning "stranger"!

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 18 March 06 18:57 GMT (UK) »
Sounds like the names are of foreign origin.  However, I wonder what context they were used in the 19th century in Britain.  Maybe gypsy families called their children names like this.  Or maybe William Blake wanted a change from the norm and decided on some unusual names for his later children.