Family names

[starkwars.livejournal.com]

I'm creating a family tree and there were many interesting (and possibly awful) names that I thought I'd share here. Most of these names are from the late 1700's and up to the 1950's.



Emeretta
Cordelia Francelia
Juanita
Adelaide
Marjorie
Francella
Lola
Dorah Aleen
Edna
Marsha
Delila
Elsie
Rhea
Huland***
Loretta
Yov Anne
Constance
Genevieve
Ivah
Caterine
Lula
Gussie
Matie
Beulah
Arotine
Lyndel Frae
Anita
Mary Dee
Marlene
Adeline
Myrle
Sylva
Winifred
Bonita
Twyla
Verda
Inez

Laverne*
Geraldine
Guthrie**
Fitzhugh
Abisha
Lucian
Merle
Alvin
Lucius
Loren Mikel
Clifford
Lennie
Marvin
Edmund
Neuber****
Duane
Shefford Monroe
Lester
Fordyce
Phlio
Manley
Hartley
Marlin

*My grandpa's middle name,
**Middle name. I assume it was for the hospital he was born in as there's a few in the area with the same name.
*** I'm assuming it's a female name.
****Mother's maiden name as a middle name.

This name I have to mention because it's just awful; Zook (f). She's a 2nd or 3rd cousin of mine and has by far the most awful name of those currently living in my family.

Comments

[halliwell66.livejournal.com]

Zook, has got to have some kind of story behind it. Very weird, reminds me of book nook.

Some great names:
Cordelia Francelia, Adelaide, Marjorie, Francella, Genevieve Caterine, Adeline,Inez
Fitzhugh, Edmund, Marlin

[starkwars.livejournal.com]

haha yeah though no one has any idea what it is from what I've heard.

[mommy.livejournal.com]

Cordelia Francelia? wow.

[starkwars.livejournal.com]

lol yep, my thoughts exactly.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I like Cordelia.