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the ragbag: some peculiar puritan given names

ragbag:

in addition to ultimate gravel skiing and kite surf jousting, i’m also an avid fan of anthroponomastics, the study of personal names. naming customs have always been a hot topic around the ganan dinner table—and no group of people has a weirder body of names than those pesky new england…

Tagged: names folklore ritual

Posted on February 28, 2012 via the ragbag with 125 notes
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  I’m rereblogging this because I’ve just found that “If-christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hads’t-been-damned Barebone”...
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  I’ve been looking for this list forever. My especial favorite is If-christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hads’t-been-damned...
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  This just reminds me of the segment of male ancestors I have named Resolved, thanks to dem Puritans.
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  which made me cackle
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  My grad school friends and I came across this a few years ago, and as a result when a friend’s wife got pregnant we...
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  Oh my god I want to take “Tremble” as one of my names so bad.
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  One side of my family descends from Puritan roots, so we have a bunch of old Bibles at my grandmother’s house in which...
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