On 10 Jan 2010 at 11:37, Susan Wiseman wrote: > > Good morning all & a happy New Year, > Whilst some of us are snowed in & the lists are quiet I thought it a > good time to resend my family interests to see if there are any new > listers with the same interests. Always happy to make new links and > share information. - these are all my 2 x great granparents. > > Telemachus BARLOW b Southowram 1840 son of Thomas BARLOW & Ruth > MANN married in Halifax in 1862 to Mary Alice CULPAN b Halifax 1842 dau of > John CULPAN & Mary Ann SUTCLIFFE < Interesting forename, Telemachus. Were his parents lovers of Greek mythology? Using Surname Atlas (which also analyses forename distribution in the 1881 census) he appears to have been one of only six people with the name in the UK and the only one in Yorkshire. Results show just one Telemachus, appearing in the Halifax Poor Law Union, so that must have been him. -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

"Telemachus" - could this forename perhaps be a variation on the surname "Tollemache"? Mabel in NZ From: "Roy Stockdill" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:16 AM On 10 Jan 2010 at 11:37, Susan Wiseman wrote:...... Telemachus BARLOW b Southowram 1840 son of Thomas BARLOW & Ruth MANN married in Halifax in 1862 to Mary Alice CULPAN b Halifax 1842 dau of John CULPAN & Mary Ann SUTCLIFFE < On 11 Jan 2010 Roy wrote > Interesting forename, Telemachus. Were his parents lovers of Greek > mythology? > > Using Surname Atlas (which also analyses forename distribution in the 1881 > census) > he appears to have been one of only six people with the name in the UK and > the only > one in Yorkshire. Results show just one Telemachus, appearing in the > Halifax Poor > Law Union, so that must have been him.

On 11 Jan 2010 at 10:55, Keith & Mabel Jowsey wrote: > "Telemachus" - could this forename perhaps be a variation on the > surname "Tollemache"? Mabel in NZ > Possible, I suppose, but in Greek mythology Telemachus was the son of Odysseus in Homer's The Odyssey. Victorians were quite fond of biblical forenames and names from Roman and Greek mythology. It may have been the equivalent of modern families naming their offpsring after footballers and pop singers! -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE