Unusual First Names

[forthefamily]

Looked again....

Baptism on the Lancashire OPC: 1813 Haggate, 1822 Gambleside, 1823 Clap Gate 

Birth regs on FreeBMD: 1845 Bury, 1877 Ashton, 1878 Bury, 1883 Bury, 1892 Salford

These are just the Butterworth Butterworth combo.

There are others such as William Butterworth Butterworth and Thomas Butterworth Butterworth.

They are all over and the father's have various types of occupations. It would be interesting to know if they are all related

I Googled the surname and it came up with this......"Butterworth Name Meaning:
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from places named Butterworth in Lancashire (near Rochdale) and in West Yorkshire. Both are so named with Old English butere 'butter' + worđ 'enclosure'."

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[philipsearching]

I Googled the surname and it came up with this......"Butterworth Name Meaning:
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from places named Butterworth in Lancashire (near Rochdale) and in West Yorkshire. Both are so named with Old English butere 'butter' + worđ 'enclosure'."

Butter enclosure?  Oh how I wish they had been named Dairy Dairy. 

[coombs]

I have a possible relative called Cordiel Gater of Lambourn, Berkshire.

[DianaCanada]

I have a possible relative called Cordiel Gater of Lambourn, Berkshire.
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One of my relatives married a Gater, but no funny name combinations.

Notice a few Alison Gaters in FreeBmd - no doubt shortened to Allie Gater!

[andrewalston]

I've just been researching a family who went in for the unusual.

James and Mary had a Mary Ann and a James, but also Lazarus, Rhoda, Gaius, Mainley, Eunice, Justus John and Stephen Purim.

[Mimble]

One of the things I have tried to find out was why my father was named Eric Campbell Morgan. Campbell was not a family name. Both Grandma and Grandpa were people of faith, my grandma belonged to a  non-conformist chapel and my grandpa to a high church, St Mary Redcliffe, in Bristol. 
I have often wondered if the Campbell name was in honour of a famous preacher, and then I discovered that there was someone called George Campbell Morgan,  “The Prince of Expositors” who lived and worked in the right time and area.  I feel sure this is it. It's one of those things you wish you had asked your father or grandmother but too late now.

[Stanwix England]

I've just found a woman called Irving Kirharp. Doesn't roll off the tounge does it? Irving was her mother's maiden name.

She then married and became Irving Kirkpatrick.

It's all made her very easy to follow though, among all the Mary's and Elizabeth's so I'm not complaining!

[Gallicrow]

Some feminine version of masculine names sound quite nice and have become widespread. For example Roberta, Georgia, Stephanie. However one which always make we wince when I come across it is Thomasina - it's almost as though the baby was initially thought to be a boy and then after a few months its parents realized it was a girl and had to hastily modify her name.

[Raybistre]

I have a Fridiswede Hooper born about 1704 in Somerset. She would have seemed to have been known as Friday. ( Frithuswith, commonly Frideswide (c. 650 – 19 October 727; Old English: Friđuswīţ), was an English princess and abbess. ). Interestingly, although I couldn't find the name in FreeBMD, there were over 50 births, male and female, for the name Friday.
Ray