I love genealogy, for many reasons. At the moment, I'm getting a kick out of the names I run across while researching. I can't claim one of these beauties in my own line, but YOU might be able to! If you have Puritan ancestors, you could have a grandpappy named:
I guess they usually went by nicknames, but do you think when their mothers got mad at them, they used the full name? "Through-Much-Tribulation-We- Enter-into-the-Kingdom-of-Heaven Smythe, you get in here right now and start on your chores this instant! Why can't you be more like your sister, If-Christ-had- not-died-for- thee-thou-hadst- been-damned?"
I bet those kids ran like hell.
(For more Puritan slogan and virtue names, see Rootsweb and Onomastikan)
that is too funny!
Posted by: Rhonda at September 2, 2003 09:12 AMHahahaha!
Posted by: ron at September 2, 2003 10:01 AMPEASE! Don't give Bart any ideas.
Posted by: JeniLiz at September 2, 2003 05:11 PMYou should have seen the non-Puritan names that Aaron and I use to come across...
Posted by: SonofThunder at September 4, 2003 09:46 AMOh I can imagine. My mother is a labor and delivery nurse, and she hears some whoppers. She says one lady heard the doctor say a word that she thought was just beautiful, and so she used it as a name for her daughter. "Placenta". Poor, poor kid.
Posted by: Shannon at September 4, 2003 09:59 AMI stayed with a Christian school teacher in Vancouver, BC that had a student named Repent-or-Burn-Forever. The teacher said that they called him Rob for Repent Or Burn, but the parents got mad.
Posted by: the booth at September 4, 2003 12:47 PMYikes- wonder what HIS childhood was like.
Posted by: Shannon at September 4, 2003 02:22 PMHow would you like to be named Jezabel? One of my former customers was named that...and she was, too!
Posted by: SonofThunder at September 8, 2003 02:00 PMoh the humanity, or perhaps inhumanity in naming their kids the way that did. humorous and yet oh-so-cruel. laughs laughs
Posted by: Cay at September 13, 2003 11:02 PM