Unusual First Names

[philipsearching]

FamilySearch has:
Onetimus Stockdale LEWIS born 4 Dec 1858, bapt 20 May 1860 St Mary, Chester

Assuming the spelling is correct (and I can't see a birth on FreeBMD!) I wonder if his parents ever got as far as Septimus or even Decimus.

[Sloe Gin]

FamilySearch has:
Onetimus Stockdale LEWIS born 4 Dec 1858, bapt 20 May 1860 St Mary, Chester

Assuming the spelling is correct (and I can't see a birth on FreeBMD!) I wonder if his parents ever got as far as Septimus or even Decimus.

It's Onesimus. 

https://www.behindthename.com/name/onesimus

[philipsearching]

FamilySearch has:
Onetimus Stockdale LEWIS born 4 Dec 1858, bapt 20 May 1860 St Mary, Chester

Assuming the spelling is correct (and I can't see a birth on FreeBMD!) I wonder if his parents ever got as far as Septimus or even Decimus.

It's Onesimus. 

https://www.behindthename.com/name/onesimus

Not quite as much fun as Onetimus - but still quite rare.
Maybe I should look out for Twosimus and Threesimus 

[pinefamily]

I was thinking that's all it took to conceive. 
On a serious note, is Onesimus a variation on Onesiphorous?

[Henry7]

A long time ago (in the 1940s) I heard an old retired teacher telling my parents about a man who had decided to name his son Mahershalalhashbaz; he believed it was the longest name in the Bible.

The teacher had been appalled and had tried to talk him out of it - whether she succeeded or not I can't remember.  She lived near Morpeth in Northumberland, and this might all have occurred many years before she told the story.

[Andrew Tarr]

I have come across a Thomas Thomas. But also a Thomas Thomas Thomas baptised. Looking at the original PR's it is deffo Thomas Thomas Thomas baptised to a John and Eliz Thomas I think.

Anyone with Welsh connections will not think T.Thomas or W.Williams at all unusual.  Wales has relatively few 'standard' surnames, and many of them appear with similar or identical given names: Evans, Davies, Roberts, Jones, Rees, Morgan - to name a few more.

[Ayashi]

I found a Mahershalalhashbaz TOBBELL (I think that was the surname) on the census once (probably Northumberland). I was looking for somebody else at the time and had to go find the original image to see if that was right. How do you shout that at a kid when he's done something wrong, or you want to call him in for dinner or something? Perhaps unsurprisingly on the next census he was "Mashek".

[Henry7]

Thanks, Ayashi.  It looks as if his father really went ahead with his daft plan.

Surprised the name wasn't shortened to 'Marshall'; I had a second-cousin-once-removed (in Scotland) with Marshall as a first name, but he was always known as 'Mash'.

Harry.

[Sloe Gin]

I was thinking that's all it took to conceive. 
On a serious note, is Onesimus a variation on Onesiphorous?

Looks like it; not the same guy though.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/onesiphorus