This is set in the 16th or 17th century
LN: Your choice or: Favel, Goodwin, Watson, Vincent, Brooks
DH: Perseverance, Obedience, Creedence, Praise-God, Steadfast
DW: Humility, Repentance, Dust, Tace, Fare-Well, Magnify, Thankful [LN: Burgess, Bunyan, Owen, Edwards, Perkins]
DS: He is named after his father
DS: He has his father’s maternal GM’s surname [Plowman, Cotton, Bond, Marshall, Norton, Wither]
DS: Fear-God, Ashes, Diffidence, Goodman, Lament, Moreover
DD: She is named after her mother
DD: Joy-in-sorrow*, Remember, Abstinence, Jolly, Do-Well, Return
DS: Fear-not, Continent, Happy, Increase, Makepeace, God-Reward
DD: Good-Fight-of-Faith, Thanks, Vanity, Notwithstanding, God-Helpe, Wealthy
DD: Humble, Hopestill, Piety, Temperance, Lively, Vyctorye, Purity
DS: Wayte-a-While, Noble, Seaborne, Zeal-for-the-Lord, Scriptures
Optional child: What I’ve read is that a tradition among puritans is to open the Bible and selecting the first name your eyes lands on. Do this for this child. Gender up to you, or do one for a boy and one for a girl! (If you don’t own a Bible you can use the following link:
https://dailyverses.net/random-bible-verse)
If you want more traditional middle names you can choose from the following:
Sarah, Elizabeth, Ruth, Anne, Hannah, Deborah, Huldah
Thomas, John, Joseph, Samuel, Josiah, Ephraim, Isaac, Hezekiah, Peter
* attached to stories of difficult births
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