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From: "marilyn E B" <>
Subject: Re: [ML] unusual names
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:30:02 -0500
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First of all when it comes to unusual given names, I really think certain
sections of
the south could top anything found anywhere else in the United States. I
have some
of these in my family tree. Everytime I enter them, I wonder what their
parents were
thinking when they named them.

My dad's name was strange and I could never figure where that came from
until I
started tracing one line that came to Tennessee from Pennsylvania. The name
Thelbert
had been passed down through many generations. I also know the name is found
in either English or Scottish history. As long as I can remember the name
Thelbert was
always being mutilated. Finally within the family he was either grandpa Bert
or Uncle
Bert, while the friends from his youth called him Arthur.

But where do names such as Piota, Atalanta, or Greenberry originate. There
are ones
such as Nimrod that I attribute to the Bible.

My ex and I named our children so that the males were JEBs and females were
MEBs even had two more picked out for the next two, if we had decided to
have two more.

Smiles,
Marilyn

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:52 PM, belva <> wrote:

> My youngest son and both his sons initials are K.A.W., his wifes are F.A.W
> .
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> Helen
>
> My first husband and my 3 sons, one miscarried, all had the
> initials R E B. Robert Edward Brandt, Randall Edward, Ryan Edan and Robert
> Eric.
> When Eric was little he said he didn't want to be Barbra Eric
> anymore, we couldn't make him understand it was Robert but he just couldn't
> pronounce it, asked to have his name changed to Charlie. When I remarried he
> wanted the same name as his daddy so he changed it to Billy Eric Gurr but
> got into a fight with the judge at the adoption hearing because they
> wouldn't put Jr. on his papers. His daddy's name was Billy Emory, so I told
> the judge to lie to him and make the pronouncement that he was now Billy
> Eric Gurr Jr. The next day I had to go out and buy him a jersey that had
> junior on the back.
> The Eric part is funny too. When I was working my first job as a
> nurse's aide I had a supervisor with a husband named Eric. If I heard Eric
> once a day, I heard it a dozen. Then she had a son she named Eric. I
> foolishly said I would never name a child of mine Eric - silly me I was 16
> at the time.
> When I got pregnant with him we were looking at the name Regan,
> after a family doctor, when Ryan, age 3, came home and told me he had a name
> for his baby. He wanted to name him after his friend at a local school who
> played drums in the band, Eric Menafee. I refused but from then on Ryan took
> naps with his baby Eric and told everybody that his baby Eric was going to
> come when the doctor pushed him out - my mom let him see the dog have
> puppies. So Robert Eric was named.
> He named his son Zachary Eric, I was doomed.
>
> Belva
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> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm
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