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The name Elgious keeps cropping up in my family history, See this website for an example:- http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/Cemeteries/Singapore_Memorial/C/html/ca.htm
Scroll down to Carpenter to see my great uncles name.
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about it's origins/history.
I've looked on the internet and found Elgius and Eligius, are they from the same name?
I love this name and would like it to be my son's middle name, and would love to one day tell him about it's history.
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
PaulC
Scroll down to Carpenter to see my great uncles name.
I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about it's origins/history.
I've looked on the internet and found Elgius and Eligius, are they from the same name?
I love this name and would like it to be my son's middle name, and would love to one day tell him about it's history.
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
PaulC
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I would think that it is nearly certain that Elgius and Elgious are simply spelling variations of the same name.
I wouldn't be quite as sure that Elgius was itself simply a variation of Eligius, but that would also seem to have a much higher that 50% probability, IMHO. It has been hard to find a source that gives a variation of Eligius without the first "i", though Walter Burkart's Neues Lexikon der Vornamen does give "Elgo" as a pet form of Eligius used in Germany.
I wouldn't be quite as sure that Elgius was itself simply a variation of Eligius, but that would also seem to have a much higher that 50% probability, IMHO. It has been hard to find a source that gives a variation of Eligius without the first "i", though Walter Burkart's Neues Lexikon der Vornamen does give "Elgo" as a pet form of Eligius used in Germany.
This message was edited 9/18/2007, 7:24 AM
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Cleveland Kent Evans, thanks for the reply. There doesn't seem to be too much out there on this name, I'd dearly love to know a little more about it's history though, was it associated with a certain religious group eg methodists or family? I guess I'll have to do some more research, and look at some ancestry websites, see if I can find out a little more about my family. My living relatives don't know anything about it.
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