[Magdalen] Sons (and Daughters) of Norway.
Grace Cangialosi
gracecan at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 01:51:19 UTC 2015
It was also apparently not uncommon in the Hebrew Scriptures; God gave folks some pretty weird names!
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 3:23 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My wife reported an instance of a man whose name was a scriptural sentence:
>
> If Christ had not died for thee thou hadst been damned Barebones
>
> It was, apparently, a not uncommon practice in the time of the late
> unpleasantness in England.
>
> This article gives the facts:
> http://blog.findmypast.com/2015/if-christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned-the-weird-and-wonderful-names-of-the-english-puritans/
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**” -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:18 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> We had sisters at church named Praise & Rejoice. Their brother
>>> was named Believe. Really.
>>
>> In our sacristy at All Saints', East Cupcake, there was an altar guild
>> plaque in memory of a longtime guild member, Delight Plumbach. I
>> remember also meeting a visitor called Preserved. Can't recall her
>> surname.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>
More information about the Magdalen
mailing list