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From: Kathleen Much <>
Subject: Re: Unusual first names -- Mahethalum
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 01:47:04 GMT
In article <>,
Dorothy Koenig <> wrote:
>Has anyone ever come across *Mahethalum* as a woman's first name? My
>Mahethalum was the eldest daughter of William Seargeant and his wife
>Lauranna ________. She was born in the early 1760s and married James M.
>BATES in Louisa Co., VA on 12 Sept. 1783. Elizabeth Bates was the eldest
>daughter of James and "Hithie". Elizabeth Bates married Charles
>WORTHINGTON on 7 August 1806 in Mercer Co., KY. Charles and Elizabeth
>Bates Worthington named their 7th child Mahethalum Bates Worthington, and
>a couple of other women descended from Mahethalum Seargeant bore her name
>in Missouri in the mid 1800s. Is it a Biblical name?
Sounds like it might be a corruption of Beheathland, a surname that
got used over and over as a woman's given name in colonial VA. I've
seen many versions, including Behethalum. Initial B and M are easily
interchanged. If you can find a copy of _Robert Beheathland,
Gentleman, and his Descendants_, you might check to see if there are
any SERGEANTs listed. Or you may have a clue to Lauranna ---'s family
(her surname wouldn't have been BEHEATHLAND, as the male line had died
out, but ol' Marse Robert might be an ancestor).
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