Old family names

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

I've been doing a lot of personal genealogy research lately and I made a list of all of my known direct ancestors' names. Some are quite fug, but a lot are actually rather nice.

Males
Albert Peter Nicholas
Bernard
Byron Randolph
Disney Eugene
Francis Joseph
George
George Christian
Herman Carpenter
James
James Herbert
John
John Baptist (alternately John Baptista)
John Bernard
Joseph Mayo
Mark Wayne
Martin Alpheus
Patrick Joseph
Pietro (anglicized to Peter)
Richard
Samuel
Steven
William

Females
Ada Anice (pronounced a-NEE-cha)
Anna Catherine
Anna Mary
Anne
Elisabeth
Elizabeth
Emma Jane
Helen
Inez Barns
Isabella
Jane
Josephine Veronica
Katherine
Kathleen Denise
Madeline Jane (alternately Magdalena Gemma)
Mary
Mary Ann
Mary Elizabeth
Mary Jane
Mathilda Anna Marie
Nellie Dean
Selina Merriweather
Theresa
Williana

Thoughts?

Comments

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Francis Joseph
James Herbert
John Bernard
Joseph
Martin
Patrick Joseph
Samuel
William

Ada
Anna Catherine
Anne
Elisabeth/Elizabeth
Helen
Jane
Josephine Veronica
Katherine
Madeline Jane
Mary Elizabeth
Mary Jane
Mathilda Anna Marie - I prefer Matilda, though
Nellie

[ladymela99.livejournal.com]

Disney..wow.

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was his mother's maiden name. He was named way before Walt Disney became famous.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Mayo makes me smile. Disney is really weird. I don't think that I ever would've pronounced Anice that way.

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

I think that Disney was his mother's maiden name; he was named way before Walt Disney became famous. And Anice is Italian.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guessed that Disney was probably born long before Walt was, let alone named, but just the connotations for it now.

I like...

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Nicholas
James
Patrick Joseph
Samuel
William

Ada
Anna Catherine
Anne
Elisabeth
Emma Jane
Isabella
Magdalena Gemma