Yes I suppose you are right. Just do a search on ancestry on censuses and see how many people born around 1805 have Horatio Nelson as their Christian names, and not just males. Brian Binns -----Original Message----- From: leicestershire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:leicestershire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Firebird Sent: 29 February 2008 20:06 To: LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LEI] Unusual Christian names Brian Binns wrote: > I can find no relative of my great-grandmother who fought in that battle, so > there is no obvious reason, other than it being in the news. It would be > like someone being called Falklands or Basra today. The uses of such names was because of the battle/s and yes it would be like someone being called Falkland now. Not Basra though I don't think. > Very odd. Not really, not for then. It would be odd now but then there are some names chosen for children these days that in a generation or two will be considered "very odd" but they'll be doing the same thing as you are: applying 20th/21st century thinking to the 19th century/20th century or in the future: 21st/22nd century thinking to the 20th/21st. > Even more so > that she passed this name on to one of her children, born some 40 years > later. There was more national pride then than there is now. It was recognition of an achievement that was considered worthy of passing on. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

But can anyone explain why a whole family of males born c 1825 had the middle Christian names of Napoleon Bonaparte and their sister was Josephine!! Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Binns To: 'Firebird' ; LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [LEI] Unusual Christian names Yes I suppose you are right. Just do a search on ancestry on censuses and see how many people born around 1805 have Horatio Nelson as their Christian names, and not just males. Brian Binns

Mike wrote: > But can anyone explain why a whole family of males born c 1825 had > the middle Christian names of Napoleon Bonaparte and their sister > was Josephine!! Admirers of Napoleon and Josephine perhaps?