Remarkably, none of the names mentioned as being in the register are in the IGI. On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Lesley Baxendale <[email protected]> wrote: >  Hi Stephanie, > > I can't really narrow it down for you, but just try putting some of these > Christian names into the IGI and see what comes up - there are loads of them > all over the country. > > http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_I > GI.asp&clear_form=true > > Regards > > Lesley Baxendale > Colwyn Bay, N Wales > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephanie Ray > Sent: 14 January 2011 19:55 > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: [WRY] Puritan names from the Old Testament > > Hello, all: > > I'm an Californian researching the English origins of my immigrant > ancestors, two brother-in-laws who emmigrated to Jamestown, Virginia > circa 1612/13. > > There are some tantalizing clues in the literature regarding the name > of one of them, Pharaoh Flinton (a surgeon, according to the records > of the Virginia Company of London), as follows: > > In "Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature" Charles W.E. Bardsley states: > "This affection for the Old Testament has never died out among the > Nonconformists. The large batch of names I have already quoted from > modern directors is almost wholly from the earlier Testament... > Wherever Dissent is strong, there will be found a large proportion of > these names. Amongst the passengers who went out to New England in > James and Charles's reigns will be found such names as Boaz Sharpe, > Esau del a Ware, Pharaoh Flinton, ... Obediah Hawes, ... Malachi > Mallock ... . Occasionally an ... Epaphroditus Haughton, ... or > Annanias Mann is met with; but these are few ... . > > Puritanism made early stand in Yorkshire, though in the matter of > nomenclature the northern counties seem to have been the slowest to > take up the new custom. Puritan names still linger in our northern > dales. If we look over the pages of the directories of West Yorkshire > and East Lancashire and strike out surnames, we could imagine we were > consulting anciently inscribed registers of Joppa or Jericho. It would > seem as if Canaan and the West Riding had got inextricably mixed. What > a spectacle meets our eye? Within the limits of ten leaves we have > three Pharaohs... Pharaoh occurs, and went out to Virginia, where it > has ever since remained. It is, as already shown, familiar enough in > Yorkshire." > > Furthermore, all the names can be found in one parish record, > according to an article in "Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine" > Volume LXXXV October 1927 Number 10: "In the Manchester Directory for > 1877 we find a "Kerenhappuck Horrocks", while in 1850 there was one > "Kesiah Simmons", and in 1862 "Eli-Lama-Sabachthani" Pressnail > staggered along under his terrific load. Another luckless wight, > bearing his sorrows thick upon him, was "Lamentations" Chapman, > mentioned as early as 1590. "Dust" and "ashes" enjoyed great vogue. > > Here we find in one register a "Boaz" Sharpe, "Pharaoh" Flinton, > "Obadiah" Hawes, "Malachi" Mallock, "Epaphroditus" Haughton, > "Annanias" Mann. Surely "Barabbas" was not a happy thought, still > there was a "Barabbas" Bower in 1713." > > On the other hand, "A dictionary of English surnames" By Percy Hide > Reaney and Richard Middlewood Wilson University of Sheffield 1958, > flatly states that "[t]he modern form of many of our surnames is > comparatively recent, often preserving a phonetic spelling found in a > seventeenth- or eighteenth-century parish register. Pharaoh is a > reconstructed spelling of Faro, originally farrer, found also as > Farrey, Farrah and Farrow in the seventeenth century."... no mention > of religion! > > My question to the lists is whether or not anyone has heard of any of > these particular names, and knows which parish register is being > referred to? > > Thanks and regards, > > Stephanie > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ > > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ > > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I haven't been following this thread in detail, but I tried several of the names you mentioned in the IGI and found them all, in most cases running into dozens of instances. Try entering the names here: [1]http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/searc h_IGI.asp&clear_form=true Regards, Bob On 14/01/2011 23:04, Stephanie Ray wrote: Remarkably, none of the names mentioned as being in the register are in the IGI . References 1. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true

Bob, unfortunately the few names that do come up are multiple, duplicate entries of records that are "submitted" by members of the LDS church, as opposed to actual parish records "extracted" by the church, which not considered to be as reliable, and in the case of my ancestor Pharaoh Flinton, seem to just be guesses as to the year of birth and a location of "England"! Best regards, Stephanie On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Bob Thornley <[email protected]> wrote: > >   I haven't been following this thread in detail, but I tried several of the >   names you mentioned in the IGI and found them all, in most cases running >   into dozens of instances. >   Try entering the names here: >   [1]http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/searc >   h_IGI.asp&clear_form=true >   Regards, >   Bob >   On 14/01/2011 23:04, Stephanie Ray wrote: > Remarkably, none of the names mentioned as being in the register are in the IGI > . > > References > >   1. http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true > > > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > PLEASE and THANK YOU -- Don't cost a thing and mean so much. > > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >