You simply must wonder what the other names of her siblings must be.?ÿ Her first name is Quail.?ÿ Perhaps she has a sister named Chickadee.?ÿ Possibly a brother named Snipe or Pelican.?ÿ Based on the age of her recently deceased brother-in-law I'm guessing she was born about 1965.?ÿ She married into an interesting family, too.?ÿ One of the listed grandchildren of the deceased is named Kal-el.?ÿ Isn't that Superman's birth name from his time on Krypton?
Worked at one time with a fellow whose name was William William Williams.?ÿ It's a good thing he did not have a natural stutter.
Have been assisting a lady researching her ancestors who arrived in this area starting prior to 1870.?ÿ My stars, the names people stuck their kids with in those days.?ÿ One side of her family had about a half dozen Olivers living in the same time frame.?ÿ Nothing wrong with Oliver, but never realized it could be so popular.?ÿ One of them had the surname Perry.?ÿ I wasn't about to hazard a guess as to his middle name. (pun intended).?ÿ One of the women was Lettye.?ÿ Not sure of the derivation of that one.?ÿ For some reason Rebecca Jane went by Suzie.?ÿ One ancestor's first name was Calvin and the middle name was Wheeler with no apparent connection to any Wheeler family.?ÿ I found it mildly amusing that during his service in the Union Army with a Minnesota regiment even though he was from Ohio his function was "wagoner" which fits right in with wheeler.
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I laugh because my Aunt's husband has the same first and last name, such as James James.
And some people have no clue.?ÿ My mother worked for an OB/GYN for years.?ÿ He delivered twins to a lady who named them Xray and Radar.?ÿ And then there was the fellow named Legg who named his children Harry and Ophelia.
named them Xray and Radar
After me?
Holy Cow~
I know that keeping the family name was real popular.?ÿ ?ÿSo kids would be named after some distant relative.?ÿ ?ÿSome would put the fathers name as the middle name and that kids would later do the same thing.?ÿ But what I also found is lots of kids would get nicknames.?ÿ ?ÿSo even though being a family name, they would get weird nicknames.?ÿ ?ÿMy father-in-law is Lee, but all of the older family calls him Bub.?ÿ Don't ask what I call my kids though!
My former brother-in-law was known as Bubby once his baby brother was born with a cleft palate.?ÿ The little one simply could not say brother and he referred to Jim as "my bubby".?ÿ The other family members picked up on it and it stuck although he had been Jim for about 18 years already. Jim's father, who was also named James, went by Tink.?ÿ Have no idea where that came from, although with 15 brothers and sisters I doubt his parents could keep all their names straight anyway.
Worked with a fellow who had a charming two or three year-old that was very red-headed. His name might have been Scott, but he was constantly called Toad.
The deal of having surnames that are also commonly used as first names can get to be funny.?ÿ Seeing a wedding announcement in the local paper for a Floyd-George wedding stands out, even today.?ÿ Had occasion once to introduce George John to John George.
We had kids in our school with the last name George, and I never reflected on it as unusual. Whatever you grow up with, I guess.
We had upstanding men in town who many wouldn't have recognized by their real names.?ÿ The nicknames everybody used were Friday for Miles, Brick for Thomas, and Strawberry for Roland.
Many surnames were taken from European rulers, including George.?ÿ Locally I can think of James, John, George, Henry, Charles, Warren, Alexander, Evan and David as surnames.?ÿ On one side of my own family with ties to Wales I am sure that was at least one Evan Evans and a David Davis.?ÿ David, Davis, Davies, Davide and Dawes are some US names that were all the same name a few hundred years ago in the land where a surveyor could go up a hill and come back down a mountain.
My Grandpa's name was Haldor Haldorson; we called him Papa Buck.
Long story, he was my Dad's Dad...
@holy-cow When my brother in law was getting married the sign in front of the reception venue caused quite a stir.?ÿ His name (last) is Nolan and his wife's maiden name was Ryan.?ÿ So when the sign said the Nolan Ryan wedding reception there were quite a few people who showed up trying to get a sight of the famous pitcher.?ÿ This was about 37 years ago when Nolan Ryan was at his peak so I can understand the mixup.
Andy
I once found a ~1920s Texas deed with a grantee by the name of Fannie Bootie...
Speaking of interesting Texas names, my hometown of Houston was greatly benefited by a philanthropist named Ima Hogg.
And Ima had a sister named Ura. They were the daughters of an oilman named Jim Hogg, who evidently had enough money that he didn't care what anyone thought. Ura was the owner/publisher of the Houston Chronicle, and her name appeared on the paper's masthead.
Just call me Killjoy.
Drove around the area with the Hogg Mansion many years ago while spending good times in Houston.
My sweet Grandma Faith was widowed at age 35 or so in 1943.?ÿ Raised 2 kids on her own and never remarried.?ÿ She once told me that she was too busy working and taking care of her mother and brothers to ever get romantically involved with another man....
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My siblings and I used to go to her house on Monday evenings for dinner when she was about 80-85 years old.?ÿ She lived in that same house for 55 years.
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She was a church-going woman and frequently told us about the goings on at church and who was doing what.?ÿ And she had a good friend with the name of Mike Hunt.?ÿ?ÿ
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It was something to be sitting at the dinner table with a woman who never uttered a curse word or uttered anything stronger than "Oh, my!" but frequently said that she "had seen Mike Hunt in church yesterday."
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I will go to my grave thinking that she never thought anything untoward about that statement.
