Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — Curious Christian Names. [ARTICLE]

Curious Christian Names.

One of the most curious names ever bestowed upon a girl is Airs and Graces. She is now about 3 years old, her name being registered at Someset House, London, in 1898, when she was baptiezd. Her sister's name is equally unusual. Nun Niver. When Airs and Graces and Nun Niver arrive at the age of maturity at least one of them should marry a youth whose Christian

name compares favorably; for example: Acts of the Apostles. This is a name found in an English parish register: Acsapostle, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Pegden, was baptized Aug. 2, 1795. Again this name figures in records in 1833, when Acts of the Apostles , son of Richard and Phebe Kennett, was baptized. This name, curious as it is, Is preferable to What, or Dun Si>iro Spero, names with which children have been handicapped. It was a patriotic American who bestowed upon his young hopeful the name of Declaration of Independence. A most warlike name is Robert Alma Balaclava Inkerman Sebastopol Delhi Dugdale, who is an English innkeeper’s son. A similar name is Richard Coeur de Lion Tyler Walter Hill.