My Leicestershire born Great Grandmother, called one of her children. George Edward Baden Powell Mafeking, after Baden Powell the person who first started the Scout Movement. And after a battle he had fought in. Early on in the 1900's. Must have been a hard name for a kid to learn to write. We also have a Cyril St Clair attribituted to her naming her children. Just a weird woman one would suppose. Or Just someone who had a taste for unusual names. The rest were normal names, ie Thomas, David, Albert and Ada to name a few. Quite a handsome young man from his photo. But we all felt very sorry for his name. Which by his nieces and nephews he was known as Uncle Badie. I am inclined to believe, at the time she just wanted a child of hers to have a distinguished name. A Lot of old fashioned names are becoming popular here in Tasmania again. Or might I say unusual names. Kitty Tasmania

Hi then of course we have all the foriegn spellings of "English" names Alis, Kristoffer, Peder, Rebekka, Angelike, etc and were a grand parent wasn't English speaking Kjettill, Kjell , Ingebjørg etc. to take a few from Norwegian. Given names give us some pretty good clues about where and who we came from, and help put "flesh" on the bones of our ancestors. regards Terry Norway > Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:02:19 +1100 > From: kitty.cc931126@gmail.com > To: LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS@rootsweb.com > Subject: [LEI] Unusual Christian Names > > My Leicestershire born Great Grandmother, called one of her children. > George Edward Baden Powell Mafeking, after Baden Powell the > person who first started the Scout Movement. > And after a battle he had fought in. > Early on in the 1900's. > Must have been a hard name for a kid to learn to write. > We also have a Cyril St Clair attribituted to her naming her children. > Just a weird woman one would suppose. > Or Just someone who had a taste for unusual names. > The rest were normal names, ie Thomas, David, Albert and Ada to name a few. > Quite a handsome young man from his photo. > But we all felt very sorry for his name. > Which by his nieces and nephews he was known as Uncle Badie. > I am inclined to believe, at the time she just wanted a child of hers to > have a distinguished name. > A Lot of old fashioned names are becoming popular here in Tasmania again. > Or might I say unusual names. > Kitty > Tasmania > > ------------------------------- > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/