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Interesting Victorian
Forenames
The Victorian forenames
names I have come across when dealing with the Zulu War have fascinated
me. They were very unusual in many cases, exotic and unfortunately, obsolete
or out of fashion. Many were taken from family connections or historical
characters. In any event, colourful. Many of them are used by the officer
class. More normal names such as John, Edward, Henry, Thomas, Arthur,
William, George etc. were very common in other ranks.
Here are a few of
the more unusual or seldom used:-
Albert
Allen
Anderson
Arnold
Ashley
Augustus
Aylmer
Barré
Belasyse
Benjamin
Bernadino
Bigsby
Blackhouse
Carthew
Cecil
Champney
Charles d'Aguilar
Cornelius
Courtland
Courtney Vor
Crofton
Cromwell
Day
Douglas
Drury
Eccles
Edgar
Edwin
Eli
Elias
Elijah
Enoch
Ernest
Ewart
Fenton
Ferguson
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Fletcher
Frederic
Freeman
Germain
Godwin
Gonville
Gurnell
Hambley
Hanniball
Herbert
Holt
Horace
Horatio
Jaheel
Jeremiah
Jervais
Jesse
Joshua
Kendrick
Leigh
Levett
Lionel
Loftus
Maxwell
Merriot
Miles
Minchin
Montague
Moore
Morden
Mostin
Napoleon
Nelson
Nevill
Noah
Noble
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Oliphant
Parkinson
Parry
Pender
Penn
Penryn
Quentin McKinnon
Ralph
Redvers
Rees
Reginald
Rouse
Rowland
Russell
Sidney
Spencer
Stanhope
Stevenson
St. John
Swift
Talbot
Tatham
Teignmouth
Theophilus
Tobias
Tollemache
Uriah
Vaughan
Verney
Walter
Watkin
Westenhall
Whitelocke
Wilfred
Wilson
Wilsone
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