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The Lighter Side / Re: Weird Christian names
« on: Wednesday 25 May 11 02:55 BST (UK) »
I think everyones family tree will have someone with a slightly odd name in somewhere or other. My favourites are:
Onesimus BARLOW
Coxe SWANNELL
Onesimus emigrated to Canada - but thanks to his forename he's easily spottable amongst records!
My personal favourite though is Samson Napolean PALMER. I was slightly surprised that he was given the middle name Napolean given that he was born in England only 40 years after the end of the Napoleonic wars. He married Flora Bella Jervas CHURCH - only to die at the relatively young age of 27.
Flora then married Samson's brother - the slightly less exotically named - Moses. As it was illegal (I think) to marry her husbands brother she married under the name Bella Gervas PALMER.
Onesimus BARLOW
Coxe SWANNELL
Onesimus emigrated to Canada - but thanks to his forename he's easily spottable amongst records!
My personal favourite though is Samson Napolean PALMER. I was slightly surprised that he was given the middle name Napolean given that he was born in England only 40 years after the end of the Napoleonic wars. He married Flora Bella Jervas CHURCH - only to die at the relatively young age of 27.
Flora then married Samson's brother - the slightly less exotically named - Moses. As it was illegal (I think) to marry her husbands brother she married under the name Bella Gervas PALMER.