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From: "Edwin and Cornelia Moore" <>
Subject: Re: Odd Christian names
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:37:12 -0700
References: <000001c46d22$bad73c40$bc5465da@study> <40FC27AD.EED7A042@sympatico.ca>


names like Sabbath Church may have been given to foundlings-children left on
the church steps. there are a number of unusual names like that given to
foundlings.
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researching in England-Suffolk, Essex, Surrey, Middlesex, Dorset and ???;
Alston, Barrett, Barritt, Cross, Freeman, Gage, Harlock, Harris, Hawkins,
Head, Hudd, Parker, Peckover, Pennington, Rayner, Richards, Seaman, Smith,
Waterfall,
also Atkinson, Aitken and Airey of Westmoreland
interested in these individuals;
Mr. Bland who m. Elizabeth Cross, Elizabeth Burnham, Mary Church, Samuel
Clark who m. Sarah Cross, John Davis Cooper, Hannah Cork, Aubrey Cross, Mary
Jane Docwra, Elizabeth Griffiths, Charles Halifax, Mr. Holder who m.
Katherine Cross, Mr. Nainby who m. Margaret Cross, John Head, Joseph Jackson
who m. Jane Cross, Lavinia King, Mary and Martha Mayhew, Alfred Augustus
Mayo, William Pettit, Hezekiah Richards, Martha Sewell, Rebecca Sidnell,
Hannah Smith, Augustin Smyth, Annie Southan, Catherine Till/Tell, Fanny
Watts, Margaret Willett, Mary Wilkenson, and a Mr. Smyth who m.
Joan/Jane/Johanna _?_ abt 1670
also Edmond Cross who died in 1641 in Framlingham, Suffolk,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Audrey Walker" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: Odd Christian names


> My husband, researching in Nantwich, Cheshire, came across the name
SABBATH
> CHURCH given at some baptisms in the 1700s, also PLANT MADDOCKS which
seems
> rather unusual.
>
> Audrey in Ottawa
>
> Roger Sainty wrote:
>
> > Yes, but the name does seem to have had a certain vogue - I have met it
a
> > few times even in fiction. But other "number" names don't seem to be
> > around. Anyone got a Secundus? Tertius? Quartus? Quintus? Sextus? So I
> > think there was possibly more to it than just the numerical position in
the
> > family. What about someone born on the seventh day (Sabbath)?
> >
> > Roger sainty in NZ
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Delia Gleave <d@deliagleave.f9.co.uk>
> > To: <>
> > Date: Monday, 19 July 2004 03:13
> > Subject: Fw: Odd Christian names
> >
> > >
> > >Septimus just means "seventh" so could have been given to the seventh
son.
> > >
> > > Delia
> > > Bedfordshire
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >><snip> From: "diane lord" <>
> > >
> > > his father had Septimus as a middlename ... does anyone know if this
used
> > >to be a common name??
> > >
>
>


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