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Thread #88987   Message #1676744
Posted By: The Walrus
23-Feb-06 - 08:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Names that have gone out of style...
Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style...
If we're on odd family names, My first name is Alfred although I tend to use my middle name (strangely, Alfred seems to have come back, there are at least two boys called "Alfie" in my neighbourhood* - I hated the name), my Father had the names Ernest & Charles (both names which are less popular thar in previous years) and my Mother had Emma and Amelia (Emma made a brief comeback), but then I have/had Aunts called Freda (not a contraction), Betty (ditto), Violet, Nell, Eileen, Sally(not a contraction) and Rita and Uncles Herbert and Jack (middle name "Vierstraat"), many of these names have been carried on (as middle names - what a surprise) in the current generation(s) (either in their Children or Grand-Children#)

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*Not Guilty ;)
# Oddly, NOT Vierstraat