http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=asenath At 01:32 PM 2/4/2006, you wrote: >I have an ancestor from Shillington called Asenath HILL (maiden >name)which I believe is a name from the old testament possibly >connected to Joseph. They were methodists in the mid 19th century >and wondered if this may have contributed to them choosing such an >unusual name? >Rosemary > > > > From: AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com > > Date: 2006/02/03 Fri PM 07:57:03 GMT > > To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: Hamlet > > > > Listers > > > > Does anyone have any Hamlets in their family? > > > > It seems to crop-up in one branch of my family all the time [usually as a > > middle name] as far back as I can trace them...I can't imagine > that they knew > > Shakespeare's play Hamlet which is the only Hamlet I have heard > of outside these > > people? Their surname was VOERKER [later Anglicised as WORKER]. > > > > cathy > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > > The Bedfordshire Surnames List can be viewed at: > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > > > > > >----------------------------------------- >Email sent from www.ntlworld.com >Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software >Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information > > >==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== >For any updates our info about the status of this list go to >http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com

My 1890s Bible's "Index of Proper Names - with their Accentuation and Meanings" gives Asenath as: AS'-E-NATH = she who is of Neith or Pallas Which doesn't seem to help very much as she is NOT included in the same work's "Alphabetical Index of the Holy Scriptures" which does include Individuals' names.... Maybe she was Welsh??? But definitely the name has a Non-Conformist ring to it, as they seemed to prefer the Old Testament to the New... HTH Gus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stella Stanger" <sstanger@sfu.ca> To: <BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 11:21 PM Subject: Re: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: Asenath http://www.behindthename.com/php/view.php?name=asenath At 01:32 PM 2/4/2006, you wrote: >I have an ancestor from Shillington called Asenath HILL (maiden >name)which I believe is a name from the old testament possibly >connected to Joseph. They were methodists in the mid 19th century >and wondered if this may have contributed to them choosing such an >unusual name? >Rosemary > > > > From: AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com > > Date: 2006/02/03 Fri PM 07:57:03 GMT > > To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: Hamlet > > > > Listers > > > > Does anyone have any Hamlets in their family? > > > > It seems to crop-up in one branch of my family all the time [usually as a > > middle name] as far back as I can trace them...I can't imagine > that they knew > > Shakespeare's play Hamlet which is the only Hamlet I have heard > of outside these > > people? Their surname was VOERKER [later Anglicised as WORKER]. > > > > cathy > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > > The Bedfordshire Surnames List can be viewed at: > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > > > > > >----------------------------------------- >Email sent from www.ntlworld.com >Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software >Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information > > >==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== >For any updates our info about the status of this list go to >http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE send a message to: Bedford-L-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in mail mode i.e. receiving the messages individually or want them individually) or Bedford-D-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in digest mode i.e. receiving a digest of multiple messages or want this mode) In the BODY of the message (not the subject line) type the word subscribe or unsubscribe.

Gus Tysoe wrote: > My 1890s Bible's "Index of Proper Names - with their Accentuation and > Meanings" gives Asenath as: > > AS'-E-NATH = she who is of Neith or Pallas > > Which doesn't seem to help very much as she is NOT included in the same work's "Alphabetical Index of the Holy Scriptures" which does include Individuals' names.... Maybe she was Welsh??? I don't know for sure, but the Greek Goddess Athene is sometimes called Pallas Athene, and sometimes just Pallas. So maybe Neith is another name for the same or a similar Goddess - it sounds Egyptian to me. I'm currently reading 'The Histories' of Herodotus, a Greek writer from around 300 BC, and in the section about Egypt, he often gives the equivalent Greek names for Egyptian gods, e.g. he equates Isis with Demeter. Not sure sure that whoever named their daughter Asenath would have done so had they thought of the name as pertaining to a 'heathen' deity. :-) Lila. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * An Fhirinne in aghaidh an tSaoil - The Truth Against the World