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From: tmlew <>
Subject: Re: [TNDICKSO-L] Sunday Rockin'
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 14:09:30 -0500


Anyone have a clue where the middle name "Doshe" could have come from?

ace1125 wrote:

> Morning all,
>
> Today I got to thinkin about names... what's that Willie said? "A
> name...what's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet!"
> And I thought, well there is a lot in a name.... my son became Joshua
> because of the one that "fit the battle of Jericho" and the sermon I
> listened to while pregnant with him, he recieved Thomas as his middle name
> because that was the name of MY father, and because my father never had a
> son and a long line of Thomas Dennis's was coming to an end after four
> generations, he got another middle name too...Dennis. Similar stories about
> my daughters' names. Now as for me, Mama says I became Jan (jan) because
> when her and my pa were courting their favorite restaurant was the Trojan
> and one night they looked up at the neon light and by golly the "Tro" was
> out and the "jan" lit up....voila! That, they decided then and there, would
> be their daughter's name when they had one, if they did. Well they did, and
> I was their crop which might be a blessing....suppose they next had been
> sitting in front of a Sinclair Gasoline Station and the neon part that said
> "claire" had been out and they named their next child "Sin"???? Sheesh....
> I shudder to think of the possibilities!
> But back to this name business.... amazing the clues names can give us,
> right? And some we do not even notice....until we stumble on just the right
> thing. I always thought Philadelphia an odd name for my ggg grandmother
> McElroy-Fitzhugh..... until I learned that my McElroys first settled in
> ....ta da!...Philadelphia! My aunts never knew why their mother's middle
> name was "Delphie" (a variation of Philadelphia) until I told them that
> their great grandmother was Philadelphia, and more than likely grandpa had
> never heard his mother referred to as anything but "Delphie" so that is what
> he named his daughter. I almost missed my Hatcher connections because the
> descendents referred to gg grandmother as Victoria but the Hatcher cousins
> who did not come of her line knew her only as Rebecca Victoria in the family
> Bible and referred to her as Rebecca.
> Now there are supposedly "set patterns" for the names that were given in
> the families:
> such as the first son being named for the father's father, the second for
> the mother's father, , the third for the father, etc. and you can view
> those patterns at http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/naming.htm but
> understand that they are definitely not set in concrete and can only be
> taken as "perhaps clues". I wonder sometimes, how many clues we miss and
> never know the meaning of.... one that would have been lost I suppose if I
> had not known it to tell the only granddaughter of an aunt, was that her
> grandmother's name was actually Lillian Kathleen, and that Lillian came from
> the name of her grandmother's uncle's girlfriend. The young lady had never
> heard the story and I doubt she ever would have, or if anyone else even knew
> it to tell her if they thought of it. The uncle, actually a great great to
> this young woman, was killed in WW1 before he ever married his sweetheart,
> Lillian. Soooo...there was a story in that name that may well have been
> lost. Now I can't help but wonder how many other names in our lines there
> is a story behind and we simply don't know it. Why was one of my great
> uncles never named until he grew old enough to name himself...and then why
> did he call himself "Bowman"? Where does the first name "Madison" come from
> in my Fitzhugh family...where does "Wingfield" come from in the Dunlaps? I
> suspect they are clues to family connections but I haven't found them,
> although this story would be more obvious than Philadelphia's or
> Lillian's...
> Perhaps all of these names are "sweet clues".... No Willie, I think you
> got it wrong..."a rose by any other name would NOT smell as sweet"!!!!
> And that is my thought for the day,
> jan
>
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