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Weird Personal Names

Aydee_Aitchdee said:
Just came across this article, baby name finds from 1877. All the names on the list are First and Middle names, unless denoted with sn (surname) A few highlights:
Barwood Platt (sn: Woodnutt)
Biggleswade
Boadicea
Crisp Ingomar (sn: Figgins)
Effierenda
Effeldipha Ann
Favoretta Hermione Agnes
Habakkuk
Lambatous Richards
Mehetabel Eliza
Peter The Great & William The Conqueror (twins)
Spendlove Odessa
https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2019/02/finds-from-1877.html
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Aydee_Aitchdee said:
Just came across this article, baby name finds from 1877. All the names on the list are First and Middle names, unless denoted with sn (surname) A few highlights:
Barwood Platt (sn: Woodnutt)
Biggleswade
Boadicea
Crisp Ingomar (sn: Figgins)
Effierenda
Effeldipha Ann
Favoretta Hermione Agnes
Habakkuk
Lambatous Richards
Mehetabel Eliza
Peter The Great & William The Conqueror (twins)
Spendlove Odessa
https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2019/02/finds-from-1877.html
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Habbakuk and Mehetabel are some of the more underused Biblical names, not everyone was keen on Mary and Peter.
 
bugmum said:
Habbakuk and Mehetabel are some of the more underused Biblical names, not everyone was keen on Mary and Peter.
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I gotta say, names were a lot more interesting back then, I loved that there were Anglo-Saxon names! Aelred Joseph, Athelstane John. Let's normalize Anglo-Saxon and Biblical names.

Although I did feel sorry for ol' Beanland...
 
Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring featured in a planning saga.

"A woman who infuriated her neighbours by painting her townhouse in red and white stripes is now bringing a High Court claim for £4.6 million against the lawyers who handled the property deal.
Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring, 72, bought the mews property in Kensington in 2012 with plans to convert it from office use to a luxury home, with a double basement and swimming pool.
But her plan was rejected by the council, sparking a long-running legal battle during which time Ms Lisle-Mainwaring repainted the front of the building to the dismay of her neighbours."
 
One of the posters here has a strange name that was apparently used as a nickname for one of my ancestors.
When it first came up I did a double take as I had thought it must have been an odd family thing.
 
Despite my lifelong love of Pre-Raphaelite art, l’d never heard of this West Bromwich-born artist in enamels until l went into Brum on Saturday to an exhibition at the museum:

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Biography of the enchantingly-named Miss Bunn.

maximus otter
 
The author of this article has the name: Elder Müsli-man. Which I find funny, because the Germans are the inventors of müsli.
(Yes, I am aware that it's probably a Turkish name ...)

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JamesWhitehead said:
George Robertson Sinclair, mentioned in the article, as organist & musical director of Hereford Cathedral is also - cryptically - immortalized as GRS, Variation XI of Elgar's Enigma. :omr:
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I thought this was mildly interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_Variations

Not so cryptic, according to Wikipedia he was a friend of Elgar, who composed the Engimas with melodies inspired by his friends. The 11th was named for Geroge Robertson Sinclair

Enigma Variations – XI (Allegro di molto) "G.R.S."

Elgar dedicated the work "to my friends pictured within", each variation being a musical sketch of one of his circle of close acquaintances
In naming his theme "Enigma", Elgar posed a challenge which has generated much speculation but has never been conclusively answered. The Enigma is widely believed to involve a hidden melody
 
My mother used to call me Fanny as an 'affectionate' pet name. My name is not Frances. It was short for 'Fanny Fuss-pot' as I was always regarded as a niggly child (later diagnosed ADHD). I now get the :(:mad: whenever I hear the name.
 
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