"Sir Creep" <sircreep@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:a686bf31-176e-449e-b241-7e4d6aa9c18b@x69g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... > 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! LOL! Thanks.