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HelpRe: Victorian sightings
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I'm fascinated by Rosehannah and Wilabella - such convincing mash-ups! Edgitha looks as if it should have been in use for 1500 years at least, but I suppose it's more likely to be an example of Victorian mediaevalising. Same with Milburga.
Do you think that Melior was maybe not Latin after all but a pun and/or spelling error for (A)melia? There's a hilarious Thomas Hardy poem about a country girl, admittedly from Wessex, called 'Melia who explains her prosperity, fine clothes, place in London society etc to her boggling girlhood friend as the natural consequences of having been ruined! And Leslie Dunkling recorded a 19th century boy named Alfer which he thought was likely to be a misunderstanding of Alpha, as in Omega, which the parents might have heard in church and thought of as an upper-class version of Alf(red).
Writh and Evelith leave me gobsmacked, as do Appleyard and Greenwood. Napoleon is a political statement and a half, and I don't know what Lewisham was like in the early 1800s but I wouldn't like to be named after it now.
Wonderful view of the past. Thank you!
Do you think that Melior was maybe not Latin after all but a pun and/or spelling error for (A)melia? There's a hilarious Thomas Hardy poem about a country girl, admittedly from Wessex, called 'Melia who explains her prosperity, fine clothes, place in London society etc to her boggling girlhood friend as the natural consequences of having been ruined! And Leslie Dunkling recorded a 19th century boy named Alfer which he thought was likely to be a misunderstanding of Alpha, as in Omega, which the parents might have heard in church and thought of as an upper-class version of Alf(red).
Writh and Evelith leave me gobsmacked, as do Appleyard and Greenwood. Napoleon is a political statement and a half, and I don't know what Lewisham was like in the early 1800s but I wouldn't like to be named after it now.
Wonderful view of the past. Thank you!
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Edgitha / Eadgyth seems to have been an early saint, ditto Milburga, which is possibly where they've come from.
There are other Meliors and Melioras in the same period and area, so I think it is probably Latin and mel ee or rather than 'Melier, but you never know :)
There are other Meliors and Melioras in the same period and area, so I think it is probably Latin and mel ee or rather than 'Melier, but you never know :)
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