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From: SUE RENKERT <>
Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] O T Bible Names
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:40:34 -0800
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It's interesting that Pharoah was not even a name. It was a title - like King.

----- Original Message -----
From: Stephanie Ray <>
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:51 am
Subject: [YORKSGEN] Fwd: They didn't reach the altar - this one did
To: Gen Yorks Newsgroup <>

> Regarding names from the bible; according to�Curiosities�of Puritan
> nomenclature by Charles W.E. Bardsley, a hallmark of puritanism was
> the use of Old Testament names:
>
> "This affection for the Old Testament has never died out among the
> Nonconformists. The large batch of names I have already quoted from
> modern directors is almost wholly from the earlier Testament...
> Wherever Dissent is strong, there will be found a large proportion of
> these names. Amongst the passengers who went out to New England in
> James and Charles's reigns will be found such names as Boaz Sharpe,
> Esau del a Ware, Pharaoh Flinton, ... Obediah Hawes, ... Malachi
> Mallock ... . Occasionally an ... Epaphroditus Haughton, ... or
> Annanias Mann is met with; but these are few ... .
>
> Puritanism made early stand in Yorkshire, though in the matter of
> nomenclature the northern counties seem to have been the slowest to
> take up the new custom. Puritan names still linger in our northern
> dales. If we look over the pages of the directories of West Yorkshire
> and East Lancashire and strike out surnames, we could imagine we were
> consulting anciently inscribed registers of Joppa or Jericho. It would
> seem as if Canaan and the West Riding had got inextricably mixed. What
> a spectacle meets our eye? Within the limits of ten leaves we have
> three Pharaohs... Pharaoh occurs, and went out to Virginia, where it
> has ever since remained. It is, as already shown, familiar enough in
> Yorkshire."
>
> I found this on Google Books because my ancestor was the Pharaoh
> Flinton mentioned; he married into the Cobb family where the unusual
> name remained in use for hundreds of years, my own great-grandfather
> was named Pharaoh Cobb.
>
> An amusing article on the subject can be found on page 312 of the old
> magazine Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, published in 1927:
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/overlandmonthlyo85sanfrich
>
> Best regards,
> Stephanie
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Hilery McAlpine (gmail <>
> Date: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] They didn't reach the altar - this one did
> To:
>
>
> Keren-happuch was the name of one of Job's daughters. �You can
> find it in
> Job chapter 42, verse 14. �Her sisters were Kezia and Jemimah. �No
> daughterswere more beautiful than these three so they must have
> been stunners.
> Hilery in Canada
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendy King
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 2:14 PM
> To: Roy Stockdill ;
> Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] They didn't reach the altar - this one did
>
> Points for the most unusual name yet Roy!
>
> 2 Jun 1873 Joseph SHACKLETON, son of Robert SHACKLETON married
> KerenhappuchMOORE daughter of Robert MOORE
>
> Wendy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Stockdill
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 6:48 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] They didn't reach the altar
>
> On 20 Sep 2011 at 11:36, wrote:
>
> > While �checking a Banns of Marriage for an ancestor of mine, the
> entry> �above caught my eye;
> >
> > "22nd May 1825 between � � Joseph Shackleton and �Margarett (sic)
> > Stoppard stopped by them both "
> >
> > I wonder if there was a scene in the church!
> > David >
>
> Could you tell us where this happened, i.e. which church, which
> town or
> parish?
>
> I ask because I am quite interested in Shackletons, having Shackleton
> ancestry at
> Kirkby Malham in the 17th and 18th centuries. In fact, I am
> possibly a
> kinsman - albeit
> very distant indeed (something like a 12th cousin 8 times removed)
> - of Sir
> Ernest
> Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer. We both appear to descend from a
> marriage at
> Keighley in January 1580/1, where many Shackletons originated.
>
> The marriage was between Rodger SHACLEDEN [sic] and Jenet SHARPE
> and it's my
> belief that many Shackletons probably descend from this marriage.
> They were
> prolific
> at Keighley, Haworth and Bradford. George Redmonds, the doyen of
> Yorkshiresurnames, believes that all with Shackleton ancestry are
> ultimately related
> and
> probably descend from one couple who lived at Shackletonstall, a
> hamlet and
> probably even a single farmstead in the Calder Valley above Hebden
> Bridge.
> Was the marriage of Joseph and Margaret stopped after the third
> reading of
> the
> banns or earlier? Did they subsequently marry later?
>
> --
> Roy Stockdill
> Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer
> Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:
> www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html
>
> "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about,
> and that is not being talked about."
> OSCAR WILDE
>
>
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