On Dec 19, 12:49 am, Dan <danchi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 17, 8:39 am, "Scruffy McScruffovitch" <Scruff...@FAM.NET> > wrote: > > > What sources do you have for the name? > > > "Dan" <danchi...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > >news:24d69ef3-8a79-40d3-8cd2-10262d7d185e@e67g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > > > > My 2nd Great Grand Aunt is named Licenda Jane Thompson. Has anyone > > > ever heard of the name Licenda? I was thinking that it should be > > > Lucenda, but the evidence I have says that it is Licenda. Could it be > > > a nickname for something else? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dan > > Unfortunately I don't have much to go on. No B/D/M records. What I > have is a typed letter from her granddaughter (I believe) that is very > similar to what is written here:http://www.usroots.com/~jmautrey/pioneers/yoa/jthompson.htm > > I believe that they are in Tennessee from 1830's - early 1900's, but > nothing is coming up yet anywhere I've looked. > > Thanks, > > Dan Don't get scared of oddball names...they may well be what they appear to be. I have a GG-Grandmother who has the name Alwilda. Go ahead and google Alwilda....that is, search the entire known electronic world....and you'll get EIGHT (8) hits. And of those, I think the only other mention is a couple Latino names. Don't ask me where her parents came up with that one....but that's her name. And she was part(?) Menonite in PA....not the hotbed of Latinos in the mid-late 1800s. SC (Patrick)

"Sir Creep" <sircreep@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:7cbf8d64-9d2b-458d-944f-2f8aafbaaeb2@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > On Dec 19, 12:49 am, Dan <danchi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Dec 17, 8:39 am, "Scruffy McScruffovitch" <Scruff...@FAM.NET> >> wrote: >> >> > What sources do you have for the name? >> >> > "Dan" <danchi...@gmail.com> wrote in message >> >> >news:24d69ef3-8a79-40d3-8cd2-10262d7d185e@e67g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... >> >> > > My 2nd Great Grand Aunt is named Licenda Jane Thompson. Has anyone >> > > ever heard of the name Licenda? I was thinking that it should be >> > > Lucenda, but the evidence I have says that it is Licenda. Could it >> > > be >> > > a nickname for something else? >> >> > > Thanks, >> >> > > Dan >> >> Unfortunately I don't have much to go on. No B/D/M records. What I >> have is a typed letter from her granddaughter (I believe) that is very >> similar to what is written >> here:http://www.usroots.com/~jmautrey/pioneers/yoa/jthompson.htm >> >> I believe that they are in Tennessee from 1830's - early 1900's, but >> nothing is coming up yet anywhere I've looked. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dan > > Don't get scared of oddball names...they may well be what they appear > to be. I have a GG-Grandmother who has the name Alwilda. Go ahead > and google Alwilda....that is, search the entire known electronic > world....and you'll get EIGHT (8) hits. And of those, I think the > only other mention is a couple Latino names. Don't ask me where her > parents came up with that one....but that's her name. And she was > part(?) Menonite in PA....not the hotbed of Latinos in the mid-late > 1800s. > SC (Patrick) In my research I have run into the most "oddball" names in my Southern U.S. family names. "Vicey", "Dicey", and "Jobin", to name a few. Apparently, these were correct spellings. There was a few that got really creative, like my Great, Great Grandaunt, Starlight Chafins.

On Dec 20, 8:24 am, "Scruffy McScruffovitch" <Scruff...@FAM.NET> wrote: > "Sir Creep" <sircr...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:7cbf8d64-9d2b-458d-944f-2f8aafbaaeb2@n20g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > > > > > > > On Dec 19, 12:49 am, Dan <danchi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Dec 17, 8:39 am, "Scruffy McScruffovitch" <Scruff...@FAM.NET> > >> wrote: > > >> > What sources do you have for the name? > > >> > "Dan" <danchi...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > >> >news:24d69ef3-8a79-40d3-8cd2-10262d7d185e@e67g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > > >> > > My 2nd Great Grand Aunt is named Licenda Jane Thompson. Has anyone > >> > > ever heard of the name Licenda? I was thinking that it should be > >> > > Lucenda, but the evidence I have says that it is Licenda. Could it > >> > > be > >> > > a nickname for something else? > > >> > > Thanks, > > >> > > Dan > > >> Unfortunately I don't have much to go on. No B/D/M records. What I > >> have is a typed letter from her granddaughter (I believe) that is very > >> similar to what is written > >> here:http://www.usroots.com/~jmautrey/pioneers/yoa/jthompson.htm > > >> I believe that they are in Tennessee from 1830's - early 1900's, but > >> nothing is coming up yet anywhere I've looked. > > >> Thanks, > > >> Dan > > > Don't get scared of oddball names...they may well be what they appear > > to be. I have a GG-Grandmother who has the name Alwilda. Go ahead > > and google Alwilda....that is, search the entire known electronic > > world....and you'll get EIGHT (8) hits. And of those, I think the > > only other mention is a couple Latino names. Don't ask me where her > > parents came up with that one....but that's her name. And she was > > part(?) Menonite in PA....not the hotbed of Latinos in the mid-late > > 1800s. > > SC (Patrick) > > In my research I have run into the most "oddball" names in my Southern U.S. > family names. "Vicey", "Dicey", and "Jobin", to name a few. Apparently, > these were correct spellings. There was a few that got really creative, > like my Great, Great Grandaunt, Starlight Chafins.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - A secretery in one of the areas where I work is named either Starlight or Starlit Jones....don't know about the Olden Days, but in this case the creativity has crept into the African-American community, as in this case. Just an FYI, the name lives on!