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blue moon
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posted May 28, 2009 11:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for blue moon     Edit/Delete Message
Some weird and whacky names from 17th Century England:-

If-Christ-had-not-die-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned

Apparently they were known as "damned"

Jesus-Christ-Came-into-the-world-to-save

Kill-sin

Abstinence

Forsaken

Dust

I'm not making this up:-

http://gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/England-Medieval/Puritan.htm


It was on kids BBC T.V whilst "mommy is working on the computer" so, so hard.

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MyVirgoMask
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posted May 28, 2009 12:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MyVirgoMask     Edit/Delete Message
Oh my god, I thought you were kidding

There's also 'Increased' and 'Wrestling' ... that seems so random.
I also see 'Return' on the list...rather ambitious

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blue moon
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posted May 28, 2009 12:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for blue moon     Edit/Delete Message
Wrestles - I suspect that is a reference to Jacob wrestling with the Angel.

Personally I would be boring and opt for the name Jacob.

There's some odd Victorian ones, like Murder, that was on a cereal packet. But I checked with an online birth, marriage and death facility. It really was a name used in the 19th century.

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posted May 28, 2009 06:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 23     Edit/Delete Message
I've seen Increase, Cloud and Method, old Puritanical names in New England. Method comes from Methodius though I suspect.

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MyVirgoMask
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posted May 28, 2009 08:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MyVirgoMask     Edit/Delete Message
Murder...wow.

This is just surreal.

Victorians in general were an interesting bunch. Their whole thing with post-mortem photography too always weirds me out.

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PeaceAngel
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posted May 28, 2009 10:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PeaceAngel     Edit/Delete Message
As a moderator, I have to step in here and give a warning and say, please be mindful that there could be Geldof family members reading this. We shouldn't encourage.

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wheels of cheese
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posted June 01, 2009 04:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for wheels of cheese     Edit/Delete Message
PA, how I love you for the belly laughter you inspire

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koiflower
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posted June 01, 2009 07:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for koiflower     Edit/Delete Message
wow - this is weird and whacky!!!

Aren't people a funny species. The way our minds work sure is mysterious.

I'll share something with you that has a touch of weirdness. I don't wish to offend anyone, but this is just something that me and my colleagues have noticed in our collective decades of working with children........We notice that many children that have had 'issues' or 'challenges' have names that start with "J".

I also felt that children with a biblical name had a bigger responsibility to carry the power of that name.

That may sound weird, but it's just a view from where I'm standing.

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amowls*
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posted June 03, 2009 12:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for amowls*     Edit/Delete Message
To name children sometimes Puritans would point to the Bible and use whatever word or phrase their finger landed on.

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blue moon
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posted June 03, 2009 01:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for blue moon     Edit/Delete Message

Bad news if Mama lands her finger on 'do not lie with your brother's wife."

Names beginning with.....

http://www.opendb.net/element/19061.php


Mine is spot on, absolutely. The funny thing there is that I sign my name by my initial, and my mother calls me by it more often than she does my full name.

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