Belgian isn't only about Chocolate check out some of the ancestors names: Belgian Dutch Names to Perk you Up and make you Think!

First Names:

Lieven 

Ludovicus

Petronilla 

Aloysius (Allo-wishes)

 

Leoander

Prosper

Pieternelle

Ludovica 

Roel

Lien

Pomme  (Apple in english) Mbonigaba

Liloe Umuhoz

Sauman

Blanka

 Lutgar

Geert

Ignace

Jeroom Germaan

  Mauritius  

Drogo

 

  

Last Names: 

Gyssels

Van de Catseye

Callewaert  

Pysson 

Platevoet

Verslype

Tryhou

Van Meerbeeck  

Goormachtigh  

Govaert

Van Steenkiste

Van Meersch 

Pauwelyn

 Seys,

Wackenier

 De Smedt

 

 

 

 

Name Origins

Name Origins by Julie Helen Otto, Genealogist Of NEHGS newletter Asenath Collins (1839-1870) found at:  http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~garyscottcollins/ SENA (f): Often a nickname for ASENATH (or for any other name with middle or ending element -sen- [e.g. POLYXENA]. ASENATH is Old Testament Biblical, originally Egyptian ("And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath, daughter of Potipherah, priest of On --" Gen. 41:45), while POLYXENA (not mentioned by Homer) was a Trojan princess, betrothed or married to Achilles (accounts differ) and sacrificed by the victorious Greeks on his tomb "to appease his shade." (Clarence L. Barnhart, William D. Halsey et al., The New Century Cyclopedia of Names, 3 vols. [1954], 3:3218). Here the specific meaning of a name has given way to phonetic convenience, if you will. In such cases it may be important to seek names in other forms: a woman may be Asenath in her birth record, Sena in her marriage record -- or Sena in her birth record and Polly X. at marriage. Sena Luddington, daughter of Titus and Merriam Luddington, was born July 20, 1773, in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut. (Connecticut Vital Records to 1870, The Barbour Collection, AmericanAncestors.org.) In his 1815 will, Joseph Van Falkenburgh of Sharon, Schoharie County, New York, gave $200 to his daughter, Sena Van Falkenburgh. (Abstracts of Wills, Admins. and Guardianships in NY State, 1787-1835, AmericanAncestors.org.)

Name Origins : Cephas

Name Origins by Julie Helen Otto

CEPHAS (m.) - Cephas is another name for Simon Peter [St. Peter] - fisherman, disciple, apostle and first bishop of Rome. CEPHAS is the Syriac or Aramaic word for 'rock.' PETER (PETROS) is thus the same idea in Greek. A quick look at the Bellingham, Mass., VRs reveals a branch of the Rockwood family that used this name: Cephas Rockwood, b. 25 May 1766, son of Joseph and Alice (Thompson) Rockwood; he was lost at sea 10 Dec. 1786 off Lovell's Island (which the Bellingham town clerk, a notoriously bad speller, styled 'louvels eilon') (Bellingham VRs, pp. 55, 207); and his nephewCephas Rockwood, b. 12 March 1786, son of John and Eunice (____) (Smith) Rockwood (Bellingham VRs, p. 55); later known as Cephas Leland Rockwood (the middle name apparently honors his stepfather Aaron Leland), he lived many years at Chester, Vermont, later at Canton, N.Y., and died at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, 3 May 1844 (Vivian VaLera Rockwood,Four Centuries of American Descendants of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts, 2 vols. [Johnson City, Tenn.: The Overmountain Press, 2000], 1:176, 262, 367). The 1850 census lists 692 men with the name Cephas.

A artist by the name of Cephas Giovanni Thompson [July 1, 1775 – November 6, 1856] was a New Englander Artist

with works such as these:  

Name Origins: Clementina

Name Origins

by Julie Helen Otto

CLEMENTINA (f): Derived from the Latin clemens ("mild, merciful") with addition of productive suffix -ina to the adjective root, this name has long been used in England. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the female name had strong Jacobite connotations; one of the fabled romantic stories of that era was the journey in 1717/18, across much of Europe, of [Maria Casimire] Clementina Sobieska (d. 1735), Princess of Poland, to meet and marry James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1736, the Jacobite "James III"). Her namesake, Clementina Maria Sophia Walkinshaw (ca. 1720-1802), mistress of their son "Bonnie Prince Charlie" (Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1720-1788, the Jacobite "Charles III"), bore him several children. After the mid-1750s, however, and the appearance of Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison (1753/4) - one of whose two heroines is the noble Italian Clementina della Porretta - the name was favored by readers across the political spectrum. Clementine was a variant form which gained great currency in the mid-nineteenth century with the popular song "Oh, My Darling Clementine," which requires no previous knowledge of Richardson. 

Clementina Janes (b. 1802), daughter of Peleg Cheney and Patty (Coy) Janes of Brimfield, Mass., m. there 1 Jan. 1828 Edward Parsons of Northampton, Mass. (Brimfield VRs, p. 207).Clementina (Ballou) Wright (1812-post 1888, daughter of Rev. Hosea and Ruth [Washburn] Ballou) had no issue by her marriage to Col. Isaac Hall Wright, but namesakes included nieces (both b. 1834) Clementina (Ballou) Mason (daughter of Rev. Hosea Faxon and Mary [Ballou] Ballou) and Clementina Clarissa (Ballou) Tucker (daughter of Rev. Massena Berthier and Mary Sheffield [Jacobs] Ballou, who named their daughter for two Richardson heroines), herself mother of Clemmie Richmond Tucker (b. 1863).

Name Origins Ambrose

Name Origins

by Julie Helen Otto, Staff Genealogist

AMBROSE (from Late Latin family name AMBROSIUS) (m): 

The name came into use in the Middle Ages due to the great Church Father 
St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (339–397).

 While rather uncommon in Puritan New England (probably because of possible Catholic connotations), AMBROSE does appear in certain families and localities, often as a "marker" name; e.g. at Stratford, Conn., where it usually indicates descent from or associations with descendants of immigrants John and Mirable (Griggs?) Thompson, whose son Ambrose Thompson was born there 1 January 1651 [Barbour Collection].

Name Origins Mephi.

NAME ORIGINS
by Julie Helen Otto, Staff Genealogist NEHGS

 MEPHIBOSHETH (M): Hebrew. “And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet.  He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nirse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame.  And his name was MEPHIBOSHETH” (2 Samuel4:4). 

Mephibosheth Sanborn, b. 5, 9 mo. 1663, was the son of William and Mary (Moulton) Sanborn (Hampton VRs, 1:96, 552).

Rev. Mephibosheth Cain performed marriages at Dresden, Maine in the late 1790s. 

Were these men born lame, or was this a name randomly chosen from the Bible?

Name Origin "Rufus"

Name Origins/from NEHGS

by Julie Helen Otto, Staff Genealogist

RUFUS (m) (Latin red): William II “Rufus” (d. 1100) succeeded his father, William I “the Conqueror,” as King of England in 1087 and was killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest. The name, used as a nickname (for red-headed or ruddy men, presumably) throughout medieval Europe, was revived as an English proper name in its own right in the late eighteenth century. 

 Rufus Allen, b. Bellingham, Massachusetts, 27 Nov. 1824, was a son of Samuel and Polly (__) Allen.

Where do these diffrent names ever come from?

I find Ancient names so fascinating

Every week I am treated to rare names in the “Weekly Genealogist newsletter” sent by NEHGS.  This week it’s the name Boudica.  I wiki ‘d  her this week in search of deep histoy of England and the Roman occupation.  I am surprised Boudica was such a strong woman yet her name has not carried through history like one would think.  I am thrilled to read this entry this week:

Name Origins 

by Julie Helen Otto,Staff Genealogist
BOADICEA (f): A Latinized form of BOUDICA, the widowed chieftainess of the Brythonic Celtic Iceni (who held lands in what is now Norfolk). In an arrangement common with client kingdoms in recently conquered Roman territory, her husband Prasutagus had willed his domain to his daughters and to Rome — which disregarded the daughters’ claims. Boudica was subsequently severely flogged, her daughters raped; outraged by their treatment, she led the Iceni, Trinovantes, and other tribes in a bloody rebellion in A.D. 60/61 which led to the destruction of Camulodunum (Colchester, Essex), Londinium, and Verulamium (St. Albans), before the Romans crushed the uprising at the Battle of Watling Street. Boudica’s revolt was seen in later years as a heroic resistance to Roman tyranny in what is now England, and is commemorated in Thomas Thornycroft’s statue, “Boadicea and Her Daughters” (1901–2), by the Thames River near Westminster Pier, London.
Boadicea Townsend m. Stafford, Conn. 20 Aug. 1771 Thomas Warner (Stafford, Conn. Congregational Church Records, Corbin Coll. [SG COR 5] 176, p. 14). In about 1787 Thomas and Mehitable (Griggs) Wakefield of Enfield, Conn., had a daughter Boadice Wakefield, who died there 8 Sept. 1807 in her 20th year (“O: don’t forget that you must die, / and turn to dust as well as I”) (Francis Olcott Allen, The History of Enfield, Connecticut, Volume III, 3 vols. [Lancaster, Penn., 1900], 3:2479). At least one bearer of this rare given name used the nickname “Dicy” (which suggests di- could be the accented syllable). Boadicea “Dicy” Scott (not, so far as I know, related to either Mrs. Townsend or her daughter) m. Kent, Conn. (by Rev. Daniel Porter), 29 May 1802 William Brown of Kent (Kent VRs, Barbour Collection of Conn. VRs, citing orig. town rec. vol. 2:64).

I really believe that there is so much more to the Legacy of Bodica.  Would love to know what became of her children etc…

Names

Names of the Uncommon Nature

Barzilla  where does a name like that come from.  I need assistance from Julie Helen Otto over at NEHGS.

I found my first Barzilla born in Embden, Maine.  He moved to Haverhill, MA.  He father too was Barzilla.

I can’t help wonder  Barzilla into Godzilla. That Zilla part???

Just some fun stuff to think about.

Name Time from NEHGS Weekly Genealogist newletter

You all know by now how much I love different names.

So for a delight here is one so unique I really think the author made it up.

Name Origins

by Julie Helen Otto, Staff Genealogist

BRITOMART (f): A virgin heroine of Edmund Spenser’s allegorical epic The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596), modeled on Elizabeth I, Queen of England. Britomart L. Fassett (b. ca. 1866), daughter of Charles and Emma (____) Fassett of Rochester, Vermont, m. there 19 Aug. 1886 Hambie C. Martin [VT VRs]; the 1900 census finds them living at 45 Cross St., Gardner, Mass., with son Claude.

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My French Canadien Names [some more need to be added]

Achon

Aide Crequy

Amange

Amyot

Anceaume

Andieu

Andouin

Archambault

Aubert

Aubin

Aubuchon

Avrand

Baron

Beaudet dit DuCap which turned into DuCap

Belanger

Billot

BiVille

Bouchard

Bourdon

Brisson

Brunelle

Brunet

Bunel

Campeau

Caron

Chapacou

Chapitrelle

Charette

Charier

Charles

Charpentier  which lost its “h” so turned into Carpentier

Charron DuCharme

Chauvigneau

Chauvin

Chemereaux

Chevreau

Coignet

Dodier

Fortin

Gauron

Gille

Girard

Guertin

Guyon

Halay

Hebert

Huppe Lacroix

Jacques

Julien

Lecamus

LePicard

Lombrette

Luineau

Maillot dit LaViolette

Meunier

Milot

Niel

Paquet

Picaud

Racine

Ranger

Reaume

Regnaud

Saint Denis

Savignac

Sedilot

Sigouin

Simard

Spiegel spelling may vary

Sylvestre which turned into Sylvester

Tessier some family cousins use the spelling as Tacey

Testu Boisdon

Tremblay

Veronneu

Verville which was originally Boucher

Vezina