The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57285   Message #900334
Posted By: Lyndi-loo
28-Feb-03 - 04:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Women's names -- the virtues
Subject: RE: BS: Women's names -- the virtues
And we mustn't forget Gordon Brown's favourite name - Prudence. I believe these names were popular with the Puritans in the 1600s from whence the Pilgrim fathers came of course. Old testament names like Eleazor and Ezekiel were also very popular among Welsh revivalists from 1904