Forsyte saga

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The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy is a book detailing five or so generations of an English family in the late 1800s, early 1900s, and it has some of the best names I've come across. I thought I'd post the names from the family tree here. I've bolded the ones I personally like best, and nicknames beside if applicable.

Male:

Jolyon (JO-lee-un) ("Old Jolyon," "Young Jolyon," Jolly, Jon)
James
Timothy
Swithin
Roger
Soames
Montague (Monty)
Val
Benedict
Michael
Edgar
Nicholas
Archibald
Ernest
Christopher
Patrick
George
Thomas
St. John (pronounced SIN-jin)
Augustus
Giles
Jesse

Female:

Annabel
Eustace
Blanche
Violet
Gladys
Marian
Florence
Euphemia
Hester
Susan
Julia (Juley)
Ann
Frances (Francie)
Helene
Irene (in the movie it's eye-REEN-ee)
Cicely
Rachel
Muriel
Imogen
Maud
Annette
Fleur
June
Holly

Comments

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Male:
James
Thomas
Augustus

Female:
Annabel
Violet
June

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James
Val
Michael
Nicholas
Patrick
George
Thomas
Augustus
Jesse
Annabel
Blanche
Violet
Susan
Julia
Ann
Frances
Annette
Holly

[jesus--suburbia.livejournal.com]

James
Montague (Monty)
Val
Michael
Nicholas
Christopher
Patrick
George

Julia
Imogen
June

[shortbutfast.livejournal.com]

i like

James
Soames - really interesting
Montague (Monty)
Helene
Fleur

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I really don't like any of the boy names, but I do like

Florence
Julia
Frances
Helene
Imogen
Fleur
June

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

Yay Forsyte fun! I stongly suggest you check out the old B&W miniseries. Some of the best actors from the golden age of the BBC miniseries are in it. The new Masterpiece Theatre version was pretty crappy, in my opinion. About half the people seemed painfully miscast, and the costumes and sets were not nearly as accurate as the older version.

Joylon is generally pronounced with two syllables, JOL-yin. Like Roydon in Thackeray is RAW-don.

I've never been a fan of the English pronounciation of Irene. Much prefer the American i-REEN.

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I thought it might be something like that, but in the BBC version Jolyon is pronounced as JO-lee-in more than any other way, so that's what I picked. :)

[colliemommie.livejournal.com]

crap. phonetic phail. Roydon is RAW-din.

[yukonsally]

How is St. John sin-jin?

[hotchpot.livejournal.com]

I think it's just an idiom of British speech; I believe it comes from the French way of pronouncing "Sainte" as "San." So something like "St. Clair" in French would be "San-Clair" and in English "Sinclair."

I like...

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James
Michael
Nicholas
Christopher
Patrick

Annabel
Violet
Julia
Ann
Helene
Cicely
Imogen
Holly

[renface.livejournal.com]

My friend's dad's name is Jolyon, and he always, always goes by Joe.