Timeline for What might "biblical" names for Abel/Foot and Noake children in 17-18th Century Devon indicate?
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| Nov 17, 2020 at 21:33 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | Welcome to G&FH SE! As a new user be sure to take the Tour to learn about our focussed Q&A format which is quite different from bulletin boards, discussion forums and other Q&A sites you may be used to. Here you are trying to make a comment in the area reserved for direct answers to the original question, and so I will convert it to one. If you would like to compare notes on the Noake and Collis families please feel free to use my email address which is on my user profile. | |
| Nov 17, 2020 at 21:17 | comment | added | Catherine | Thank you for your interesting question about names. I think we may related as my 7th Great grandparents were William Noake and Elizabeth Collis living in Long Burton in the early 18th century. As we are descended from their daughter Sarah’s line we did not inherit any of these interesting names. | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 6:19 | history | edited | PolyGeo♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 19, 2014 at 8:12 | history | edited | PolyGeo♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2014 at 3:57 | vote | accept | PolyGeo♦ | ||
| Jul 13, 2014 at 17:28 | comment | added | Jan Murphy♦ | I also have a Plato Augustus. | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 20:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackGenealogy/status/487697422660153344 | ||
| Jul 11, 2014 at 12:00 | comment | added | Jan Murphy♦ | In my husband's Devon family, I find Elisha used as a middle name. The bearer is listed in later censuses as a Methodist Lay Preacher. | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 9:36 | answer | added | Verbeia | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 9:03 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | I was just wondering what other Old Testament names were in the earliest family in my question to use Israel, and came across infoplease.com/ipa/A0197619.html - the name Israel itself, as well as his siblings Henry and Ann are absent and only Rebecca is present. Then it struck me that Abel itself is an Old Testament name ("Son of Adam and Eve; slain by Cain"). I'm not sure if that counts as another name to reinforce the pattern or if Israel and Rebecca were just names that tied in with their surname to be a bit quirky. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 6:29 | comment | added | user104 | Rather, Protestant families that departed from the Catholic faith along with (most) of the rest of the country to the Anglican equivalent, and then later moved to non-conformity such as Methodism or Baptism. Those groups did not believe in saints, so rejected the saints names still in use by Anglicans, but had a strong preference for biblical Biblical-based names, hence they used the Old Testament. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 1:56 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | @ColeValleyGirl I know that I need to learn more about the Catholic-Protestant transition in England but are you thinking along the lines that these may have been formerly Catholic families who did not want to become conforming Protestants, but kept using names from the bible that were "neutral" (Old Testament) because naming after saints may have identified them as continuing to support Catholic traditions? | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 10:07 | answer | added | AdrianB38 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 10:01 | comment | added | user104 | I'd suspect Protestant non-conformity rather than Judaism, especially in Devon, but haven't a reference to support that... yet. What little I've been able to find other than mere supposition suggests Old Testament names were adopted to use biblical names that weren't saints names. | |
| Jul 9, 2014 at 8:08 | history | asked | PolyGeo♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |