Lomehamah? What sort of name is this for a girl?

[Dinkydidy]

...and you wonder if they really knew what the names meant.

Gomer – Wife of Hosea and a prostitute. 

Didy

[stanmapstone]

This site lists all the names in the Bible together with meanings http://www.ccel.org/ccel/hitchcock/bible_names.toc.html


Stan

[Pheno]

Is there a similar site listing mythological names does anyone know?

Pheno

[a-l]

It looks like Lorna Hannah to me

[JenB]

Can't find her anywhere else and she's not on the 1841 census with the rest of the family.

I see the family are living at Idsworth in 1841.

There is this burial at Chalton in 1833, August 13th

Laura Emma Mariner, (residence) Idsworth Tything, aged 4

Laura Emma sounds like a nice phonetic rendering of Loruhamah

[Rena]

Can't find her anywhere else and she's not on the 1841 census with the rest of the family.

I see the family are living at Idsworth in 1841.

There is this burial at Chalton in 1833, August 13th

Laura Emma Mariner, (residence) Idsworth Tything, aged 4

Laura Emma sounds like a nice phonetic rendering of Loruhamah

I think so too and although the surame isn't Irish, I can imagine a similar strong dialect being very difficult to transcribe by the listener.

Even back in the 1960s each village had it own peculiarities and I remember not being able to understand one word spoken by some villagers only two miles away from the village where I lived.    Perhaps this also was such an occasion.

[Dinkydidy]

Thanks for that useful reference Stan.

Laura Emma - Lo-ruhamah. Jen, I think you're right. Even if you say it slowly (and possibly drop the middle h), it's a good phonetic match. Considering the many variations of the mother's name, Marina, Merrener, Maryannah etc, I think the cleric recording the names did a good job of recording what he heard. It just presents a challenge for us trying to find them later.

Didy