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HelpVictorian sightings
mostly early Victorian & from Yorkshire:
(f)
Annis
Nanny
Writh
Livina
Perseverance
Lovelock
Osyth
Melior
Isora
Milburga
Rosehannah
Wilabella
Bathsheba
Edgitha
Evelith
Zilpha
Matrona
Persia
Jubilia
Naamah
Polina
(m)
Appleyard
Napoleon
Godred
Eneas
Dathan
Friend
Virgil
Lewisham (pr. LOO ish um)
Umfreville
Eden
Lot
Mahlon
Greenwood
Nimrod
Coronato
(f)
Annis
Nanny
Writh
Livina
Perseverance
Lovelock
Osyth
Melior
Isora
Milburga
Rosehannah
Wilabella
Bathsheba
Edgitha
Evelith
Zilpha
Matrona
Persia
Jubilia
Naamah
Polina
(m)
Appleyard
Napoleon
Godred
Eneas
Dathan
Friend
Virgil
Lewisham (pr. LOO ish um)
Umfreville
Eden
Lot
Mahlon
Greenwood
Nimrod
Coronato
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Some of these are swoonable.
Lovelock is interesting! I happen to secretly adore names that use the word "love" so I appreciate this. Though, I do like Loveday much better.
Melior, Isora, Rosehannah, Zilpha, Jubilia and Polina are especially pretty. Though, I likely would have spelled Rosehannah and Rose-Hanna myself.
For the boys, Appleyard is certainly has a celebrity-kid feel to it! Eden, Virgil, and Mahlon are lovely. Nimrod is great, with terrible modern connotations (like poor Dorcas).
Interesting choices.
Lovelock is interesting! I happen to secretly adore names that use the word "love" so I appreciate this. Though, I do like Loveday much better.
Melior, Isora, Rosehannah, Zilpha, Jubilia and Polina are especially pretty. Though, I likely would have spelled Rosehannah and Rose-Hanna myself.
For the boys, Appleyard is certainly has a celebrity-kid feel to it! Eden, Virgil, and Mahlon are lovely. Nimrod is great, with terrible modern connotations (like poor Dorcas).
Interesting choices.
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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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I see a few Puritan vestiges there - of those I rather like Melior - wondering whether Writh could possibly be Ruth ...
Greenwood is a good old Yorkshire surname - but not a patch on Umfreville (wonder whether he was as pompous as his name, poor child, and what they called him for short!)
Greenwood is a good old Yorkshire surname - but not a patch on Umfreville (wonder whether he was as pompous as his name, poor child, and what they called him for short!)
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Writh is puzzling. I found a couple in the 17th century and was wondering if it was some kind of contraction of Winefrith, but it seems to be a rare surname.
Umfreville didn't even get a middle name - somebody clearly really wanted him to go by the full preposterous thing. :/
Umfreville didn't even get a middle name - somebody clearly really wanted him to go by the full preposterous thing. :/
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I love Isora and Zilpha. There is something intriguing about Jubilia as well.
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Yes, indeed. I know Pie says the names are mostly early Victorian, but I wonder if Jubilia isn't something to do with a jubilee, if not Victoria's then perhaps a church usage?
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This particular Jubilia was born in 1846. No idea if that has any religious significance!
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I don't know either! There seems to be a Catholic tradition of celebrating jubilee years at about 25-year intervals, but that would rule out little Jubilia ... unless instead of being part of Catholic Yorkshire she belonged instead to a Chapel family such that the celebration would have been at 25-year intervals from the establishment of the particular chapel. Or perhaps her family just felt very jubilant at her arrival.
I've got no idea if the more mainstream Protestant churches go in for jubilees - Anglicans, Methodists etc. Wouldn't put it past them.
I've got no idea if the more mainstream Protestant churches go in for jubilees - Anglicans, Methodists etc. Wouldn't put it past them.
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I am guessing it does... either to Jubal or Jubilee. Both lovely names, btw.
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Loving these!
Writh
Livina
Perseverance
Lovelock - this lady needs a poem or a sonnet or a ballad named after her, stat.
Osyth
Melior
Wilabella - adorable
Bathsheba
Edgitha
Evelith - so pretty!
Zilpha
Matrona
Naamah
Polina
(m)
Appleyard
Napoleon
Godred
Dathan
Friend
Lewisham
Umfreville
Eden
Lot
Greenwood
Nimrod
Thanks Piiiie!
Writh
Livina
Perseverance
Lovelock - this lady needs a poem or a sonnet or a ballad named after her, stat.
Osyth
Melior
Wilabella - adorable
Bathsheba
Edgitha
Evelith - so pretty!
Zilpha
Matrona
Naamah
Polina
(m)
Appleyard
Napoleon
Godred
Dathan
Friend
Lewisham
Umfreville
Eden
Lot
Greenwood
Nimrod
Thanks Piiiie!
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Re: Lovelock....
I know, right?!
I know, right?!
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