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The Lighter Side / Re: Silly Names List
« on: Tuesday 27 September 05 16:04 BST (UK) »
Philip said: One (very distant) ancestor, the Viscount Massereene no less, rejoiced in the name of Skeffington Clotworthy. He was imprisoned in the Bastille and serve him right!
I fail to see anything "silly" in any of the above-mentioned names. On the other hand, it is incorrect to suggest that the 2nd Earl of Massereene might have "rejoiced" in his name, because he never attempted to preserve any aspects of the family's illustrious and ancient heritage.
Hugh Clotworthy was a Devonshire man who went to Ireland in 1573 as a soldier. He leased a property named Massereene from the Lord-Deputy of Ireland, Sir Arthur Chichester. The so-called Massereene viscountcy was bestowed upon his son, Sir John Clotworthy, whose daughter Mary Clotworthy married Sir John Skeffington, descendant of a celebrated family from the village of that name in Leicestershire. Numerous descendants of John Skeffington and Mary Clotworthy received the mother's family name as a given name.
Clotworthy Skeffington [1742-1805], the eccentric 2nd Earl of Massereene, spent two decades in several Parisian prisons for debtors, but he was never imprisoned in the Bastille. Philip's confusion might stem from the fact that Massereene was the first Parisian to escape from a prison (the Hotel de la Force in the Marais) in the revolutionary turmoil, a day or so before the destruction of the nearby Bastille fortress.
The present head of the family, John Skeffington, received Clotworthy as one of his given names. Upon the death of his father in 1992, John Skeffington became the 14th Viscount Massereene, the 7th Viscount Ferrard and the 7th UK Baron of Oriel.
William Skyvington
I fail to see anything "silly" in any of the above-mentioned names. On the other hand, it is incorrect to suggest that the 2nd Earl of Massereene might have "rejoiced" in his name, because he never attempted to preserve any aspects of the family's illustrious and ancient heritage.
Hugh Clotworthy was a Devonshire man who went to Ireland in 1573 as a soldier. He leased a property named Massereene from the Lord-Deputy of Ireland, Sir Arthur Chichester. The so-called Massereene viscountcy was bestowed upon his son, Sir John Clotworthy, whose daughter Mary Clotworthy married Sir John Skeffington, descendant of a celebrated family from the village of that name in Leicestershire. Numerous descendants of John Skeffington and Mary Clotworthy received the mother's family name as a given name.
Clotworthy Skeffington [1742-1805], the eccentric 2nd Earl of Massereene, spent two decades in several Parisian prisons for debtors, but he was never imprisoned in the Bastille. Philip's confusion might stem from the fact that Massereene was the first Parisian to escape from a prison (the Hotel de la Force in the Marais) in the revolutionary turmoil, a day or so before the destruction of the nearby Bastille fortress.
The present head of the family, John Skeffington, received Clotworthy as one of his given names. Upon the death of his father in 1992, John Skeffington became the 14th Viscount Massereene, the 7th Viscount Ferrard and the 7th UK Baron of Oriel.
William Skyvington