18th Century Gay Marriages?.....

Falkyrn · Post by **Falkyrn** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:18 pm

There are numerous examples of names that we today consider as male being used for female ancestors .... the most common one I have found so far is Nicholas

JimmyH · Post by **JimmyH** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:58 pm

One of my Great Great Grannies was called Douglas Ramsay.

Jimmy

clare · Post by **clare** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:12 pm

My gran's best friend at school was called Gordon - and that was a girl!

I am sure that I read somewhere that if the family had 'run out' of names, some children were named after the minister - even if the child was female. Perhaps if you find the OPR entry, the name of the minister will be listed somewhere.

Cheers,
Clare

fmackay · Post by **fmackay** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:12 pm

I also have a male in my tree who's father, according to his birth certificate, insisted on calling him by a girls name!
Poor man!

AnnieMack · Post by **AnnieMack** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:20 pm

We had a neighbour in Erskine in the 80's whose first name was Stuart and she was definately female!

Annie

Scozzie · Post by **Scozzie** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:25 am

I've got a Douglasina, an Alexdrina and a Leontine (she was French - is that a "normal" French name for a female?).

Whenever I hear of a boy called Jesse, I remember my Scottish childhood - Ye Big Jessie!

Post by **paddyscar** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:37 am

Hi Scozzie:

Leontine/Leontyne is French, meaning of course 'like a lion'
The only person I've ever heard called that is "Leontyne Price" an opera soprano born in the Southern USA.

Paddyscar

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:02 pm

Hi Scozzie

It sounds french, but although I've come across the name Léon several times, I've never heard of a Léontine.

Catriona

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