Old-Fashioned Maine/NE Names? (Warren: beach, rated, dental)

[msina]

My Daughter Elizabeth was nicknamed "LittleBit".

[toadling81]

Originally Posted by msina

My Daughter Elizabeth was nicknamed "LittleBit".

Those are cool nicknames to want/have...I like the Nothing one! My sister used to be Toad and Worm, but not by choice - our parents nicknamed us when we were babies, and so they stuck. Unfortunately still used in some public moments by my parents, too...

[island mermaid]

My poor daughter Mattie became known as " Bratty Mattie" in school.

Come to think of it, it was quite appropriate at times!

My son Drew, I used to call "Droodles". That one didn't stick once he entered school, Thank gawd!

[People-of-the-North]

Originally Posted by toadling81

Amongst the Puritan names is a Comfort Soule (her last name)......Any folks with ties to Rhode Island, Rehoboth, MA area? I have ties up the hooha from around there!

My ancestry in Rhode Island goes back quite a long way; among the branches of my family-tree can be found Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.
Also can be found 2 of the original Mayflower passengers; George Soule and Richard Warren.

[AlisonL]

Some of the names I remember on my family tree are: Orris, Walter, John, George, Albert, Lyford, Gaylor, Murray. Katharine, Margaret, Doris, Harriet, Flora, Beverly, Lois, Mabel, Inez.

When we were expecting dd, we had chosen the name Garrett Joel, just because we liked it. She ended up Adrienne Gayle. LOL

[cottonwood2420]

Originally Posted by People-of-the-North

among the branches of my family-tree can be found Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.

I'm a descendant of Anne Hutchinson too.

[retiredtinbender]

There's a long, long poem about names from Eastport. I won't do the whole thing (but here's an excerpt:

YE OLDE QUODDY NICKNAMES

If you’ve ever been to Quoddy you’ll agree with everybody
Who has ever sojourned here among the sticks,
Where nobody is wealthy, everyone is fat and healthy,
It’s a lovely place to live among the hicks.

Where the factory whistles screaming set Eastport gals to dreaming
Of the things they’ll be buying when payday rolls around.
Where each time you take an airing you can smell old smoked herring,
And you wake to hearing the fog horn’s mournful sound.

Here are scads of local codgers living lives of city lodgers,
For they’ve never earned a penny in their lives.
Far away from city monsters, in the land of clams and lobsters,
They present a thriving family to their wives.

Here is where old Pegleg Whalen down the main street goes a “sailing”,
With his wooden leg beneath his legal frame.
Zebby Bridges, and a lot of other good men,
On the Eastport streets we know them all by name.

Morning, noon and in the gloaming you will meet Sim Patch a roaming
All about his unpaid bills you’ll have to know
Though we meet Stinkfinger Harris, you will not see Chinless Ferris,
He was gathered to his fathers long ago.

Here are others, more’s the pity, you will met in this fair city
By their nicknames you will know them one and all.
Squawker Price and Tiny Galen, Wicky Barnes and Bunny Whalen,
Mickey Shannon, Rosie Ash, Cornelia Call.

[RMoore007]

I was talking with a cousin at dinner tonight and she did our family Mayflower ancestry search and we are related to six of the Mayflower decendants. I thouught it was three but she did some additional research this year. Some names of our families women were Clara, Jenny, Hazel, Sybil, Laura, Myrtelle, Ada, Ida, Corinne, Arvilla, Imogene (Soule)....To name a few. My favorite great uncle was named Colby. What a coincidence, that's my son's name.

[starwalker]

We weren't of New England stock -- midwestern Germans instead -- but my Grandmothers names were Katherina Elizabeth and Jessie and my mom was Dorothea Medora. (How's that for a mouthful! She insisted on DorothEA not DorothY all her life, no nicknames allowed... until my first daughter came along and couldn't get that mouthful out and instead called her Gramma Dot (mostly on account of her predilection to wearing clothes with a dot pattern print! But Gramma Dot she became from then on.)

We named our 5 daughters Katrina (a variant on my Grandmother, as I didn't want a "Kathy") Rae, Amelia Elaine, Talitha Jane (my husband was lobbying for Talitha Cumi, from the Biblical passage, but I put my foot down), Amanda Rose Lynne (also a compromise... Rose for her paternal grandmother) and Halley Amor (her middle name was suggested by one of the nurses, as we hadn't come up with one and she was born a week before Valentine's Day, under Halley's comet.)

[chiisai]

My ancestors come from the Saco, Wells areas of Maine, the Boscowen area of N.H. with a few Mayflower's thrown in for good measure. My mom was a D.A.R., but never bothered to get the paperwork. My hubby's family goes back to John Howland, and the John Adams'.

Anyway, here's some names from our New England family:

Jeremiah (Littlefield) -- Mary (Bartlett Thurston)
Enoch -- -- Lydia
Jonathan -- -- Sarah
Miner -- -- Ruth
Silas -- -- Sussannah
Steven -- -- Roda
George -- -- Susan Adeline
Frances Augusta -- -- Mary Jane
Lewis -- -- Eliza Jane
Fitz Henry -- -- Phebe
Moses -- -- Abby Hoyt
John -- -- Polly
Luther -- -- Apphia
Albert Eugene -- -- Betsey Ellen
Orrin Leroy -- -- Ruth
Harvey Calvin -- -- Uda Daisy
Luther Jere -- -- Daisy Ellen
Nathaniel -- -- Gracie Ida
Wesley Edward -- -- Lavina Eula
Ellsworth Sawyer -- -- Florence Etta
Richard Francis -- -- Melba Bessie (Sawyer) My grandmother. Mary Sawyer (Mary had a little lamb, is a ancestor of ours)
Robert Luther -- -- Evelyn Louise (Willis) My mom.
Marion Esther
Lucille Edna
Melba Elaine
Please use them with caution, these names are not for everyone, they date back to 1718.

If you really want to get Pilgrim, then try these:

Bartholomew
Christopher
Degory
Edmund
Edward
Elias
Francis
George
Gilbert
Giles
Henry
Issac
James
Jasper
John
Joseph
Love
Moses
Myles
Oceanus*
Peregrine*
Peter
Resolved
Richard
Robert
Roger
Samuel
Solomon
Stephen
Thomas
William
Wrestling

These are names of the Mayflower passengers.
Alice
Ann
Catherine
Constance
Damaris
Desire
Dorothy
Eleanor
Elizabeth
Ellen
Humility
Joan
Mary
Priscilla
Remember
Rose
Sarah
Susanna