Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1899 — Curious Christian Name. [ARTICLE]

Curious Christian Name.

til the Canterbury Diocesan Gazette there is an Interesting and authentic record of the use of the Acts of the Apostles as a Christian name. The entries are in the registers of Boughton-under-Blean. Actsapostle, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Pegden, from Dunkirk, was baptized Aug. 2, 1795, and the burial of this Actsapostle Pegden, aged 70 years, took place Nov. 14, 1865. The name seems to have been abbreviated to Actsy, for the vicar of Boughton has heard a parishioner speak of her uncle Actsy Pegden. Again, Acts of the Apostles, son of Richard and Phoebe Kennett, was baptized at Boughton church April, 1833.