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Helpnames from obits
I have a few interesting finds from obituaries in the past month.
Leatrice
Glenroy- yes, it is just one name
Elma- 102 years old, I've never seen Alma like this before. It would fit with the E- names for girls right now
Jayce Alexander Christopher- died very young, the fn doesn't really go with the mns imo
Rosella nn Sally
Pauleigh- male, about 60. disbelief.
Hogan- 90, not a ln I'd expect as a fn
Elvera
Rosina
Marymargaret- just one name again
Rolf- born at the end of WWII, didn't expect a definitely German name to be used then
Roosevelt- early boomsr, another ln I didn't expect
Berwyn- f, like Berlin with a lisp
Alonia- didn't we talk about this name recently? too close to alone for me
Ernida Ruth
Leatrice
Glenroy- yes, it is just one name
Elma- 102 years old, I've never seen Alma like this before. It would fit with the E- names for girls right now
Jayce Alexander Christopher- died very young, the fn doesn't really go with the mns imo
Rosella nn Sally
Pauleigh- male, about 60. disbelief.
Hogan- 90, not a ln I'd expect as a fn
Elvera
Rosina
Marymargaret- just one name again
Rolf- born at the end of WWII, didn't expect a definitely German name to be used then
Roosevelt- early boomsr, another ln I didn't expect
Berwyn- f, like Berlin with a lisp
Alonia- didn't we talk about this name recently? too close to alone for me
Ernida Ruth
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I've seen references to Leat 7rice people, but never the thing itself. Lucky you!
Where I live, Elma would be a contracted form of Elizabeth Maria and wouldn't attract attention. "White" Afrikaans-speaking South Africans traditionally had a very small name pool and, often, very large families with strong traditions about naming the first son after the paternal grandfather etc, etc so that family trees were very repetitive and so were family gatherings. So an Elma here could well have a cousin Bettie and another cousin Marielle, but they'd all be Elizabeth Maria and named after granny. (On the other hand, "coloured" Afrikaans-speaking South Africans might well have heard Alma as Elma and used a spelling pronunciation. It's a dialectal thing. Sorry to have to use these ghastly terms, straight back to the bad old days, but they do explain things sometimes.)
Marymargaret looks very Catholic. Two saints sharing the same day, perhaps.
I'd have thought that Sally is a bit of a stretch from Rosella. Interesting.
Where I live, Elma would be a contracted form of Elizabeth Maria and wouldn't attract attention. "White" Afrikaans-speaking South Africans traditionally had a very small name pool and, often, very large families with strong traditions about naming the first son after the paternal grandfather etc, etc so that family trees were very repetitive and so were family gatherings. So an Elma here could well have a cousin Bettie and another cousin Marielle, but they'd all be Elizabeth Maria and named after granny. (On the other hand, "coloured" Afrikaans-speaking South Africans might well have heard Alma as Elma and used a spelling pronunciation. It's a dialectal thing. Sorry to have to use these ghastly terms, straight back to the bad old days, but they do explain things sometimes.)
Marymargaret looks very Catholic. Two saints sharing the same day, perhaps.
I'd have thought that Sally is a bit of a stretch from Rosella. Interesting.
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I don't think we have and South Africans (Afrikaans or other groups) here in Wisconsin. The only one I know is black from the pictures was Roosevelt.
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