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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [BKM] Strange names
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 23:16:41 +0100
In-Reply-To: <4161C2AD.5060308@ntlworld.com>


In message <>, Paul Irving
<> writes
>I don't intend to make a habit of aimless postings like this, but some
>things can't be resisted.
>
>While checking out a suspiciously old (for the 1760s) bride, I found she
>was, as I suspected, a widow, sister-in-law of the Ann HUSSEY who the
>IGI says married my ancestor Henry BROWN. So I started looking for
>half-siblings of hers & Henrys children, & found -
>
>Mahershalalhashbaz HUSSEY, born 2-Mar-1761 in Aylesbury, son of Thomas
>(a miller) & Ann ( nee HARDING, later BROWN).
It's lovely, isn't it? You get Maher....baz christenings from time to
time, usually in families who can afford (like millers) to muck up at.
The parents were, presumably, readers, who dug further into the bible
thatn most people (and the result is often enough that they become
nonconformist, later on). What I wonder is what they were called in real
life ? 'Mahershallalhashbaz, come and get your tea!' - I don't think
so. But Maher, Marr, Lallie, Shal, Hash, Baz - the choice is endless.
>
One thing you notice is that M....z's don't usually name a son after
themselves.
Oddly, it wasn't a gypsy name, like Mathusalum, Cirmamenty,
Huntingtower..
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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