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From: "Michelle Burris Kenerly" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Unusual male names
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:11:16 -0400
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Judy:
What an interesting history lesson. Our Lower-Delmarva-roots group are
just the best....just ask and you shall receive. :) I will pass this info on
to my brother.
Michelle
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Subject: Re: [LDR] Unusual male names


> There was also Marinus Wilett, a famous Revolutionary War commander of the
> Levy Troops in New York from about 1778 when the war was going very badly.
>
> During the Federal Period and also during the 1870s Neoclassical Revival,
> there was a plethora of Latinized and just plain Roman names: Augustus,
> Severinus, Lucius and the like -- repeating the 18th century tendency.
> Part of
> the Federal Period influence was the fad for antiquities awakened by
> Napoleon's efforts. This was reflected in material culture, such as cheap
> flow-blue
> Staffordshire dinnerware with transfer-printed depictions of ruins,
> pseudo-classical scenes, etc.
>
> Best wishes,
> Judy</HTML>
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