More unusual Christian names

[ElizabethHerts]

I seem to find most of them in Devon and Cornwall.

I have already had Orenge today.

Now I have Santimola.
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http://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=gbprs%2fply%2f004635173%2f00022

[Olde Crone]

Lolol, I used to love santimola with a bit of orenge on it!

OC

[Merry]

This morning I added a couple of people called Onely to my tree! At first I thought it was a mistranscription.

[ElizabethHerts]

On one branch of my contemporary family there are children called Ruan, Sennen and Veryan. Cornish roots, of course.

[Olde Crone]

Elizabeth

My Cornish granddaughters have Cornish place names for their names too and will spend the rest of their lives spelling them to strangers!

OC

[Nell]

Ex's great-times a lot grandfather was called Onesipherous (and spelling variants). It is, of course, Biblical.

I have a Modesty, Honor, Temperance and Charity in my tree (all different branches) and came across a sadly-unrelated Comfort once.

I am also fond of a gt x can't remember mother, called Parthenia Spruce.

Closer in time was my paternal grandfather, Jeuel Jabez Gray - a census whacker - the only Jeuel on the censuses, and inccorectly recorded on them all! Also found him on the electoral roll as Jule!

[ElizabethHerts]

Nell, I think the name Honor/Honour was very popular in some parts of the country, especially in Devon and Cornwall. There are a fair few in my tree. The earliest I have is a Honor who married in Devon in 1609.

She had daughters called Rich(o)arda and Wilmot. Wilmot and its variants (I have Welthi) seems to be quite common in the 1600s. Also Lore (Laura didn't exist then).

[Olde Crone]

Another unusual Cornish name I have come across is Richeldis.

In my tree I have an Eme in every generation of one family, until it clarifies itself and becomes Amy.

OC

[Phoenix]

Petronel, Praxides, Emblyn, Deunes, Urith.

I noticed that the registers you were looking at had a wonderful variety of female names. And it fascinates me how local they are.

[Lindsay]

Pente Codner from my Devon branch - which Kite managed to read for me. I would never have got it without help.

I love it - she sounds like a new arrival on the music scene.

[Jill]

It's the men who have the unusual names in my tree, Finisher Coronation, Steeprock and Quick for example.

My Lancs/Yorks men were often given mother's or grandparent's surnames which results in forenames such as Broughton, Blakey, Dewhurst, Atkinson, Rennie and Greenwood.

[Nell]

I do have a Frost Massingham, Frost being his mother's maiden name, and an Emmets Matthews, Emmets being his paternal grandmother's maiden name.

[tenterfieldjulie]

My father's second name was Bryant, which was his mother's maiden name. He became very cross if he was called Bryan/Brian .. the poor offender was very quickly corrected. His first name was Leonard, which was also his father's name, so it was never used .. occasionally he was referred to as LB which he also answered to. My brother is sometimes referred to as JC .. but never by me!!! lol

[Mary from Italy]

I've probably posted this before, but I was amused by a Mr and Mrs Day in my tree who called their daughter Quita.

[Mary from Italy]

I think the most unusual male name I have in my tree is Cassibelan (Burton), nephew of Robert Burton, author of The Anatomy of Melancholy.

I think Belcher Dabridgecourt takes the biscuit, though.

[Olde Crone]

OK, I haven't mentioned him for a while, so time to dust off my

Fish Fish Fish.

OC

[Kit]

OH acquired a lady with the middle name of Admonition the other day.

Sadly she appears to have dropped it as I haven't found a death or marriage for her.

[marquette]

Most of the unusual names in my tree seem to be boys with a mothers (or grandmothers) name - Bilby, Masters, Brazill, Hill.

Then there is Royal George, named after the ship he was born upon.

For the girls, Exton, and Kerenhapperch (I thought this might be a biblical name).

The most elaborate names I have seen belong the Castles of Victoria - James and Harriet gave each of their 12 children 5 or 6 christian names.
I posted them before - http://www.genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=20383&highlight=castles

[Mary from Italy]

Kerenhappuch is indeed a biblical name.