Don't forget names following after other big events, like Alma, after the 1854 battle, and Royal events. My g grandfather was born shortly after the death of Prince Albert. All his other sblings had single, traditional family names, parents and aunts and uncles the same classic confusion of common names. He was given Charles Albert. I have no idea why they picked Charles! Jean Wood > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:14:32 +0000 > Subject: [NTT] Second Christian names > > I was researching my wife's ancestors in Sutton in Ashfield parish records > when I found a son who I had previously been unaware of, having been born > and died between censuses. > > > > His name was Harry Ewart Sansom JONES born 23 May 1898. I knew of the name > Sansom as it was his mother's maiden name, but the name Ewart initially > stumped me, as I was unaware of any relations with this name, nor any > previous female surname. I then thought of other Ewarts and remembered that > it was William Gladstone's middle name, and after Googling him, I found that > he had died on 19th May 1898 . Query solved, they had obviously named him > after one of Britain's most famous Prime Ministers. > > > > However, just being curious, I put in the Christian name Ewart in the > "Ancestry" Births search and found that in the April-June quarter 1898 a > staggering 649 boys were given the Christian name of Ewart, mainly as a > second or third one, but not always. Considering these births would probably > have occurred in the last 5 weeks of that quarter, that is some total. The > name Ewart of course occurs in other quarters, but not with those numbers. > Mind you, this should surprise me. Have you seen how many people were called > Horatio Nelson XYZ? > > > > Interestingly my Great Grandmother was called Mary Inkerman LEE, after the > eponymous battle of The Crimean War. I don't suppose we had many named John > Falklands Smith in 1982! How times change. > > > > Brian Binns > > _____ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1869 / Virus Database: 2092/4606 - Release Date: 11/09/11 > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > 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
Does the name Alma pre-date the Battle of Alma? I have an Alma Hannah TAYLOR born 1863 in Portsmouth, later of Radford and Nottingham. She was the daughter of a Crimean War veteran William TAYLOR. The Battle of Alma was in September 1854. There is of course the River Alma which gave the battle its name. David in Ilkeston ---Original Message----- From: Jean Wood <[email protected]> To: bnbinns <[email protected]>; nottsgen-l <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:18 Subject: Re: [NTT] Second Christian names Don't forget names following after other big events, like Alma, after the 1854 battle, and Royal events. My g grandfather was born shortly after the death of Prince Albert. All his other sblings had single, traditional family names, parents and aunts and uncles the same classic confusion of common names. He was given Charles Albert. I have no idea why they picked Charles! Jean Wood > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:14:32 +0000 > Subject: [NTT] Second Christian names > > I was researching my wife's ancestors in Sutton in Ashfield parish records > when I found a son who I had previously been unaware of, having been born > and died between censuses. > > > > His name was Harry Ewart Sansom JONES born 23 May 1898. I knew of the name > Sansom as it was his mother's maiden name, but the name Ewart initially > stumped me, as I was unaware of any relations with this name, nor any > previous female surname. I then thought of other Ewarts and remembered that > it was William Gladstone's middle name, and after Googling him, I found that > he had died on 19th May 1898 . Query solved, they had obviously named him > after one of Britain's most famous Prime Ministers. > > > > However, just being curious, I put in the Christian name Ewart in the > "Ancestry" Births search and found that in the April-June quarter 1898 a > staggering 649 boys were given the Christian name of Ewart, mainly as a > second or third one, but not always. Considering these births would probably > have occurred in the last 5 weeks of that quarter, that is some total. The > name Ewart of course occurs in other quarters, but not with those numbers. > Mind you, this should surprise me. Have you seen how many people were called > Horatio Nelson XYZ? > > > > Interestingly my Great Grandmother was called Mary Inkerman LEE, after the > eponymous battle of The Crimean War. I don't suppose we had many named John > Falklands Smith in 1982! How times change. > > > > Brian Binns > > _____ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1869 / Virus Database: 2092/4606 - Release Date: 11/09/11 > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > 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 Notts Surname List http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html ------------------------------- 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