The more genealogy research I do, the more strange names I start to find. Does anyone have ideas about where these may have come from?
Glovenia
Marcenia
Cornellis
Hazeltine
Prushea
Almedia
Hachaliah/Hachariah
Plez [name]Dewey[/name] (I’ve found this twice)
Mallard [name]Creed[/name] (had a brother named [name]General[/name] Vandorn… don’t know if there’s Civil War significance?)
[name]Green[/name] [name]Berry[/name]
Advertice
I can’t help you with any of this, but I just wanted to say how amazing these names are! I think [name]Green[/name] [name]Berry[/name] and Advertice are my favourite. 
Unfortunately my ancestors weren’t quite so creative with their naming.
Hmm, interesting names! Not sure about most of them. Cornellis seems like maybe a variant of [name]Cornelius[/name]? I know of a Hazeltine golf course but I don’t know much about it. I’m pretty sure I know someone with the last name [name]Almedia[/name]. The rest… I have no clue!
Did a little Behind the Name digging and here is what I found:
Glovenia - Did not find, no similar names popped up.
Marcenia - Did not find but a list of similar names does come up. I noticed Marcin, the Polish form of [name]Martin[/name]. Maybe a variation/feminization?
Cornellis - Did find [name]Cornelis[/name], the Dutch form of [name]Cornelius[/name]. Maybe an alternative spelling?
Hazeltine - Not found. Guessing they just added “tine” to [name]Hazel[/name], but not sure why.
Prushea - Not found but similar names pop up. Closest I could find was Preecha, a Thai name.
[name]Almedia[/name] - Not found. “Similar names” didn’t really turn up anything useful.
Hachaliah - Similar names brings up [name]Hazael[/name], [name]Hazel[/name] and [name]Heshel[/name].
Hachariah - Maybe a variant of [name]Zachariah[/name]. Similar names brings up some Japanese names like Hachiro and Hikari.
Plez - Nothing useful found.
Mallard - Name for a male duck so maybe they were ahead of their time with the word and nature names?
Advertice - Similar names brings up [name]Edvard[/name].
Skipped [name]Green[/name] [name]Berry[/name] since that one has an obvious meaning (name-wise anyways). Very interesting!
I should have mentioned all of the names belonged to people born in the early/mid 1800s. A few were born in the late 1800s. My family has been farming in rural [name]Alabama[/name] and [name]Georgia[/name] for a [name]LONG[/name] time, and I’m starting to think a lot of these names may have been the product of boredom and inventive minds.
@jennipea382: I think you’re right about Cornellis being a variant of [name]Cornelius[/name]. It seems like it might have been an attempted feminization… her father’s uncle was named [name]Cornelius[/name].
The entire sibling group has me stumped. There’s [name]Augustus[/name], [name]Elizabeth[/name] [name]Ann[/name], [name]Sarah[/name] Hazeltine, [name]Christopher[/name] [name]Columbus[/name], [name]Josephine[/name] Cornellis, Glovenia, [name]Laura[/name] [name]Matilda[/name], [name]Queen[/name] [name]Victoria[/name], and Marcenia [name]Clementine[/name]. All in one family!
Hachaliah was the father of [name]Nehemiah[/name], in the Bible. Methinks someone was looking for a very obscure Biblical name. Personally I can’t judge, I like [name]Hezekiah[/name].