A good name for a woman:

[Olde Crone]

Oh, I mustn't forget Parnell Stubbs. Not a particularly strange name, but it entranced me appearing as it did in a sea of Marys, Annes, Janes and Sarahs. I was even more entranced when I discovered the name was used for about six hundred years, the first mention being of Pernuille Stubbs in the 1200s.

Di

Fish Fish Fish is what passes either for humour in 18th and 19th century Lancashire, or maybe it's just a sign of mental instability? There are many doubled up names (Holden Holden, Fish fish, Eccles Eccles, etc,) but only the one triple name of Fish Fish Fish.

OC

[Shona]

OC, there is a Fish Fish in Lincolnshire, too. Would be grand if Fish Fish got together with one of the massed ranks of Haddocks, Codds and Dolphins that lurk around Grimsby.

[Mary from Italy]

Or with one of my Fryers.

[Tom Tom]

Wonderful and Faithful Bastow.

King Fisher (although known as William!).

[marquette]

Originally Posted by Olde Crone

Di

Fish Fish Fish is what passes either for humour in 18th and 19th century Lancashire, or maybe it's just a sign of mental instability? There are many doubled up names (Holden Holden, Fish fish, Eccles Eccles, etc,) but only the one triple name of Fish Fish Fish.

OC

I suppose he might not have seemed SO unusual amongst all the others. I wonder if he had a nickname ?

I have heard of Eccles Eccles, somewhere along the way. Don't think there's related to Mums lot.

[Nell]

Although I have some unusual first names and surnames in my and my ex's trees, I don't have any that combine two, though a distant auntie did marry someone called Napoleon Bonaparte Money!

Examples in our trees are Onesiphorous is a good first name and Cowmeadow a good second name. Both my sons are very glad I didn't start tracing the family tree until after they had been born and registered with ordinary names.

[Nell]

However I do pity various females given names to live up to - Temperance, Comfort and my poor gt gt grandmother Honor, whose first baby was baptised 3 weeks after Honor's marriage in a register office (1852).

[Shona]

Originally Posted by Nell

However I do pity various females given names to live up to - Temperance, Comfort and my poor gt gt grandmother Honor, whose first baby was baptised 3 weeks after Honor's marriage in a register office (1852).

At least she wasn't named Chastity!

[Mary from Italy]

I have a lady in my tree called Virtue, who was married on 7th April and had her first child sometime in the June quarter of the same year.

My dad and several of his predecessors had Magnadge (Magenage vaiation) as their middle name. Never could find out where it originated but glad it stopped with his generation