Blogging prompt from
The Accidental Genealogist for March 3:
March 3 — Do you share a first name with one of your female ancestors? Perhaps you were named for your great-grandmother, or your name follows a particular naming pattern. If not, then list the most unique or unusual female first name you’ve come across in your family tree.
My mom and her sisters followed a sort of naming pattern where their children all have middle names from other close family members. My middle name is Elaine, after my Aunt Nancy. My sister's middle name is the same as another aunt's first name, but also the same first and middle name as a cousin of our mom's.
I won't go into details about exactly who has what name other than that, because of identity theft possibilities.
I followed the naming pattern, giving Amanda the same middle name as my paternal grandmother (because her first name was Gladys and I couldn't deal with that) and Cayla a version of the name of Kent's paternal grandmother, Mary.
Donna didn't follow this pattern, and I don't know if my Burrell cousins did or not. But I liked keeping family names in my own family.
On Kent's side of the family, there were a couple of instances where a child died and a subsequent child in that same family was given the same name. In one case, both little girls named Olive died. There is also a Lurana and a Lurany in two generations - I have never seen either name in any other context. (According to
Baby Name Train, there were five Luranas in 1884 but none since then.)
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