On Saturday 7th December 1850, an article appeared in the Westmorland Gazette detailing some of the interesting names a clerk in a registry office had been keeping a note of for years (it seems the habits of name nerds never changes...).
Some of these names you may recognise from my "Finds From..." series, such as little Turnerica Turner and her multitude of appellations. But, for me, the real interest in this list lies in the fathers' occupations.
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QUEER NAMES
Apart from the frequency of certain apellations, another curious point deserves notice. It is the very strange names given, at times, by parents to their children. One of the clerks in the office kept by him, for years, a memorandum-book in which he collected a variety of these, giving with each the number and page of the volume in which the certified reference might be found. Without such evidence one might almost be inclined to doubt the genuineness of some of them. But they are real enough, as the documents show. Let us take a few specimens:—
Diewell Sykes. Father a weaver.
Loyal Thomas Inkpen. Father a farmer.
Patience Dinner. Wife of a husbandman.
Zaphnathpaaneah Drayson. A cooper.
Thankful Joy. His wife's name before he married her was Payne.
Acts Apostles Tong. Witness to a marriage.
Albertena Regina Victoria Gotha Boult. Daughter of a farmer.
Repentance Taylor. Daughter of a labourer.
Emma Tuesday Taylor. Daughter of a comb maker, born on a Tuesday.
Eliza Thursday Taylor. Daughter of a comb maker, born on a Thursday.
Sanspariel Scamp. Daughter of John Scamp, a tinker.
First Son Jones. Son of a labourer.
Feargus O'Connor Frost Mason. Sone of a mulespinner.
Feargus O'Connor Vincent Brouterre Hallowell. Son of a shoemaker.
Feargus O'Connor Frost O'Brien McDonall Hunt Taylor. Son of a shoemaker.
John Frost Fergus Bronterre Paina Smith. Son of a printer.
Turnerica Henrica Ulrica Da Gloria De Lavinia Rebecca Turner. Daughter of a book-keeper.
Jane Stickoloram. Wife of a weaver.
Hostilina Iphigenia Maria Hypsibile Wadge. Daughter of a carpenter.
Prince Albert Daniel Garmon. Son of a labourer.
Zelousiania Chafer.
Matilda Frnch Onion. A spinster.
James Death. A butcher.
Samson Catchasides Kitchen.
Happy George Dadd. Son of a blacksmith.
Primus Communitatis Flitcroft. Son of a bricklayer, born at Queenwood Community.
Martin Luther Spooner. Son of a maltster.
Goin Teal. A cooper.
Hubert Pay Day. An engineer, married 1843.
Isabella Wilhelmina Jacobina Carolina Adelina Cunnigham Campbell Moffat. Daughter of a farmer.
Betty Toast Divine. —Ibid.
Westmorland Gazette
(Kendal), December 07, 1850
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