Family Tree Names

General Name Discussion
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I don’t know if anyone is interested, but I was doing a bit of research into the Australian / English / Scottish / Welsh/ Irish part of my family tree, and I found some lovely, some interesting names, just thought I would share (I haven’t listed last names, only first and middles):

[name_f]Edith[/name_f] [name_f]Flora[/name_f] (my great grandma- to cut a long story short, everyone thought she was born in [name_f]Florence[/name_f], [name_f]Italy[/name_f], and had a lot of Italian in her. Wrong [name_f]Edith[/name_f] [name_f]Flora[/name_f], as it turns out- she still looks more Italian than the right [name_f]Edith[/name_f] [name_f]Flora[/name_f] though. We still have a lot of Italian, but not from this particular part of the family).
[name_u]Ruby[/name_u] [name_f]Constance[/name_f] (my other great grandma)
[name_f]Alice[/name_f] [name_u]Bellamy[/name_u]
[name_f]Edna[/name_f] [name_f]Catherine[/name_f]
[name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_f]Georgiana[/name_f]
[name_f]Johanna[/name_f] [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f]
[name_f]Margaret[/name_f] [name_f]Lavinia[/name_f]
[name_f]Mary[/name_f] Kemlo
[name_f]Lottie[/name_f] [name_f]May[/name_f]
[name_f]Minnie[/name_f] [name_f]Grace[/name_f]
[name_f]Eunice[/name_f]
[name_m]Dudley[/name_m] [name_u]Claude[/name_u]
[name_m]Maximilian[/name_m] [name_m]Eustace[/name_m] [name_m]Olaf[/name_m]
Joynton (m)
[name_m]Percival[/name_m]
[name_m]Herbert[/name_m]
Varney [name_m]Eric[/name_m] [name_m]Stanford[/name_m]
[name_u]Vivian[/name_u] [name_m]Carlton[/name_m] Haralda (m)
[name_f]Elsie[/name_f]
[name_f]Matilda[/name_f]
[name_f]Frances[/name_f] [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Frances[/name_f] [name_f]Mary[/name_f]
[name_f]Amelia[/name_f] [name_f]Frances[/name_f]
[name_f]Ella[/name_f] [name_f]Frances[/name_f]
Edye (m)
[name_u]Francis[/name_u]
[name_m]Christian[/name_m] (f)
Benedictine (f)
[name_u]Constantine[/name_u] (m)
[name_u]Dallas[/name_u] Lestrange (m)
[name_m]Walter[/name_m] [name_m]Thomas[/name_m]
[name_f]Ilena[/name_f]
[name_f]Freda[/name_f] [name_f]May[/name_f]
[name_f]Olga[/name_f] [name_f]May[/name_f]
[name_m]Ernest[/name_m] [name_m]Joseph[/name_m]
[name_f]Doris[/name_f]
[name_f]Muriel[/name_f]
[name_f]Isobel[/name_f] [name_f]Margaret[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f]
[name_m]Donald[/name_m] [name_m]Raymond[/name_m]
[name_u]Jessie[/name_u] [name_f]May[/name_f]
[name_f]Effie[/name_f] Saville
[name_f]Alice[/name_f] [name_f]Zelma[/name_f]
[name_m]Robert[/name_m] [name_u]Valentine[/name_u]
[name_f]Agnes[/name_f]
[name_f]Stella[/name_f] [name_f]Agnes[/name_f]
[name_f]Maud[/name_f]
[name_f]Eliza[/name_f] [name_f]Martha[/name_f]
[name_u]Harlee[/name_u] [name_f]Ann[/name_f] (female- this one surprised me- it was from about 1930?)

Anyway, if anyone is interested, there you go :). Does anyone have any interesting names in their own family tree: I am somewhat intrigued by Benedictine.

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re: [name_u]Harlee[/name_u] [name_f]Ann[/name_f]. Were they poor farmers? The 30s were kind of a weird time for names in [name_u]America[/name_u]. If you didn’t have a top 10 name, you probably had some off the wall double name. I’ve got a [name_u]Harlee[/name_u] too, but he was a he.

[name_u]Bellamy[/name_u] and Kemlo especially are interesting finds.

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It was in Australia, but it was in a rural area- [name_u]Harlee[/name_u] [name_f]Ann[/name_f]'s grandfather emigrated from [name_f]England[/name_f] and set up a general store during the gold rush, which provided quite an income, if the sources are to be believed. Her brothers were [name_m]Ross[/name_m] and [name_m]Donald[/name_m], so [name_u]Harlee[/name_u] did surprise me a bit (her mother was [name_f]Alice[/name_f] [name_u]Bellamy[/name_u]). It was a different world then though- [name_m]Donald[/name_m] wouldn’t have been considered a ‘vintage’ name, so I have to keep that in perspective. I think that you are certainly right about the top 10 name thing.

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[name_m]Ah[/name_m], yeah, Australians are very offbeat. Who knows? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Very cool! I enjoyed reading these

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These are great!
There are a lot of what I would consider to be the “classics” in my family tree… [name_m]William[/name_m], [name_m]Andrew[/name_m], [name_u]James[/name_u],[name_m]Thomas[/name_m] and [name_u]Michael[/name_u] repeat quite often on my paternal side. A few standouts are [name_m]Horace[/name_m] [name_m]Abner[/name_m], [name_m]Saunders[/name_m], [name_u]Maurice[/name_u], [name_m]Desmond[/name_m], [name_f]Susanna[/name_f], [name_f]Eleanor[/name_f] (though some sources say she was actually [name_f]Eleanora[/name_f]), and [name_f]Betsy[/name_f].