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I like having some fun when I compile a fact sheet.
Does anyone not remember the Judi Dench TV show 'as time goes by' ?
Below is the "Mrs Bale" I came across.
My great, great grandfather was named Jesse James. This unusual name makes me wish i could have met my great, great, great grandparents! Who names their child after an outlaw? lol
Do any of your long ago relatives have interesting names?
My cousin married a man named Frank James, his younger brother is named Jesse. Their mother was a real character. They are the kindest, least likely to be outlaws I have ever met. One of the problems with the story about Jesse James and his brother Frank is that they were fighting a war with rich land owners and government officials for their community. They did not start out as outlaws and they were labeled that because they resisted but later they did some awful things, like Wyatt Earp, tough men who did what they wanted. I think the James brothers were no different from the Earp brothers except that the Earps were more about money than the James. It seems that both families got caught up in revenge.
I found that so interesting I looked it up. Seems there is a "Rezzie Atimissy" and a "Rezzie Artimissie Lavender" and variations. Same person? At any rate, a very interesting name indeed.
Only interesting ancestor's name I can think of is a woman named "Hartie" who was part Northeastern Native American. I'd love to know more about her, but the ancestry.com trail went cold.
I had distant aunts in Oregon who were named Cinderella and Marie Antoinette by their prairie settler mother. Her sister, my grandmother, gave her children each two historical middle names of ancient royalty and authors.
Here's a real odd coincidence: My dad's two middle names were Adolf and Cyrus - Adolf, after King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Cyrus, after the great Persian conqueror who freed the Jews held captive in Babylonia. Apparently his mom's family were well-read people.
Of course, pre-WWII people might get the wrong idea about his "Adolf" name so it disappeared from the records even though it didn't refer to "that" Adolf.
While I was studying prairie womens' history I read that it wasn't uncommon for them to give their children fantastic or elegant names, suggesting that their lives were so full of drudgery and so little that was beautiful that they expressed creativity in naming their children.
I had distant aunts in Oregon who were named Cinderella and Marie Antoinette by their prairie settler mother. Her sister, my grandmother, gave her children each two historical middle names of ancient royalty and authors.
Here's a real odd coincidence: My dad's two middle names were Adolf and Cyrus - Adolf, after King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Cyrus, after the great Persian conqueror who freed the Jews held captive in Babylonia. Apparently his mom's family were well-read people.
Of course, pre-WWII people might get the wrong idea about his "Adolf" name so it disappeared from the records even though it didn't refer to "that" Adolf.
While I was studying prairie womens' history I read that it wasn't uncommon for them to give their children fantastic or elegant names, suggesting that their lives were so full of drudgery and so little that was beautiful that they expressed creativity in naming their children.
My grandfather's first name was Cyrus, my mother's grandfather and his twin brother were given first and middle names of presidents, Lawrence Monroe and Andrew Jackson
I had an ancestor whose last name was Rebsamen. However, when he moved to the US, he changed it to TURNIPSEED. I don't think of that as an upgrade.
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