Unusual First Names

[aghadowey]

I've got Albert Stratford Guildford George Bonmon Canning McLeod born 1868- most of the names from the local landlord, Lord Garvagh.

[Just Kia]

I forgot about "Thurstan" my 3great grand aunt-in-law.

[ninkynoo]

Funnily enough Mary ,that name did creep into my thoughts and I discounted it as it would mean her parents were being TOTALLY frivolous  ,no ,surely they wouldn't have ....would they .....?
Can't think of anything else ,they were not from the most learned background ,all other siblings had relatively normal names ,though on one census her father is down as John Hershall Smith ,but just the once ,strange.
Hubbie is still  laughing about it .
Poor girl ,I did notice that she never married and is plain Boadicea Diana on her death cert ,bless her heart.

[grandma]

Actually the first Boadicea was quite the gal, led her people in an uprising against the Romans though in the end was defeated. But that,s poor consolation when you have to go through life with a name like that. Wonder what they called her for short? Boady?
Mary.

[GeoffE]

Only the second outing on Rootschat for this name - Ricky found one a couple of weeks ago

Euphrosyne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrosyne

[NadT]

I've got a couple of names which do not appear to be the norm in my family lines, we have Euphemia (female), Uriah (Male), there's a few Temperances passed down through one particular line,   There's an Elflada (female) - like to know where that one comes from, Maide (female), Othneil (i'm told that one's of welsh origin).

I think the strangest one though is on my hubby's side.  His great grandfather was one of 8 children, all of which had what i would say were normal names (by that I mean you know roughly the origin).  His great grandfather's christian names were Mescach Edward, which I thought was odd but I've since discovered that Meschach was a common biblical name around the 1860s, he dropped the use of Meschach and called himslef Edward from the age of 20.  His siblings all had names like Robert, Rosa, William, Charles etc. apart from one poor soul who they called Europe Euphrates.  I can only assume their parents saw or read something about travel and were inspired!!

Nad

[stanmapstone]

 There's an Elflada (female) - like to know where that one comes from, Nad

It should be Elfleda, which is the Latinised form of the Old English female personal name Ęšelflęd copmposed of the elements ęšel noble + flęd beauty.
It was revived briefly in the 19th Century.
"The Oxford Names Companion"

Stan

[NadT]

Thanks Stan

Interesting - I wonder if she was a noble beauty, unfortunately I have no pictures of her.

Nad

[stanmapstone]

There are 60 Elfleda on FreeBmd between 1840-1921.

Stan