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in reply to a message by Miss Claire
hello
just after i posted i also found the link you included - awahtok almost definitely from here, you are right! no mention of equrk though.
it's quite unexpected as the family were very poor and mostly illiterate - (marriage certificates signed with crosses rather than signatures &c). but obviously someone could read, and liked reading stories about polar exploration!
i think you can christen a child with a non-christian name, especially since even the most traditional christian names are hebrew and greek and roman and all the rest of it, so i guess they had to start somewhere... i say 'christening' literally rather than 'naming' as we got these names from church records, as i say, the 'given names' they went by were english ones e.g. arthur.
thanks for your help!
emma
just after i posted i also found the link you included - awahtok almost definitely from here, you are right! no mention of equrk though.
it's quite unexpected as the family were very poor and mostly illiterate - (marriage certificates signed with crosses rather than signatures &c). but obviously someone could read, and liked reading stories about polar exploration!
i think you can christen a child with a non-christian name, especially since even the most traditional christian names are hebrew and greek and roman and all the rest of it, so i guess they had to start somewhere... i say 'christening' literally rather than 'naming' as we got these names from church records, as i say, the 'given names' they went by were english ones e.g. arthur.
thanks for your help!
emma
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