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An interesting family I came across on The Peerage
I'm looking at a lot of Telegraph birth announcements and found a family with interesting names that came up on The Peerage.Hope is the father's (born in 1949) grandmother's maiden name. Father [1949] Ian Ramsay Hope
Mother [1949] Virginia Phyllis Theresaand they had three sons,
Son1 [1982] Alexander Storm David Hope
Son2 [1984] Charles John Bernard Hope
Son3 [1987] George Ian Henry Hope who had their own families. *Son1 [1982] married Cecily [?]
and had three sons himself,
Son1 [2017] Laurence Alfred Douglas Hope
Son2 [2020] Claude Ernest Breese* Hope
Son3 [2023] Robin Peter Ian Hope *Breese is his mother's maiden name *Son2 [1984] married Jessica Pamela [1987]and they had four children,
Daughter1 [2014] Farleigh Elizabeth Winefride
Son1 [2016] Phoenix Vivyan¹ Peter Hope
Son2/Daughter2 [2017] Lockie James Ian Hope / Star Victoria Flora² Hope ¹Phoenix's grandfather's first name (Jessica's father) - Vivyan Edward
²Star's grandmother's middle name - Jameina Flora *
Son 3 [1987] married Katharine 'Katie [?]
and they had three sons,
Son1 [2020] Percy Ewing Hope
Son2 [2022] Merlin Ian Hope
Son3 [2024] Sidney Bernard Hope I thought it was quite interesting to see the naming traditions continue!* trawling through name indexes and making lists of the interesting
https://namenerdery.tumblr.com/

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Wow, Son 3 [1987] used such vintage names! I love it! Alexander Storm is also SUCH a cool name.

This message was edited 8/23/2024, 5:04 PM

To the tune of Noel Coward's The Stately Homes of England! Ian and Virginia's three sons have OK names, with the rather unEnglish exception of Storm. They are a very Hopeful family, I must say. Son 2 and Jessica Pamela were very creative in their name choices. Farleigh and Winefride clash alarmingly; good thing they're separated by Elizabeth. As for Phoenix, Lockie and Star - James Ian and Victoria Flora (if you don't mind rhymes) are positively ordinary. I do respect Son 3 for confining himself to a modest three names each! Of which I only like Ian and Bernard, but then, I'm a pleb. I love, and would use, Robin Peter Ian, but that's as far as I'd go.