Unusual names

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Atarah

Nori Brick
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This must be one of the most unusual names I have ever come across as being a resident of Accrington

A marriage took place on 4th Nov 1880 at St James, Cannon Street, Accrington, Lancs. between

Alexander Constantine Liperindi Luders Goetshakoff Manchakoff Oloff Brounow Soukyponet Broughton - 24 Iron Moulder Bachelor of 50 King Street and
Margaret Rothwell - 24 Spinster of 3 Ellison Street

Groom's Father: John Broughton, Painter
Bride's Father: James Rothwell, Deceased,

where on earth did the father, John Broughton, get the idea to give his son those names? There MUST be a story there?
 
Ya like the Beckhams naming their first child after Brooklyn the place he was conceived, its a good job me and the wife didn't take the route in naming our first, or every Saturday morning when my daughter arrives I'd be saying good morning back of a Vauxhall Victor:D
 
I have a mate who believes he was conceived on the stairs. He used to call himself 'the child of the Immaculate Conception'

Back to the thread - I suggest Atarah emails the local Family History Society branch to ask if there is any member researching the Broughtons. He/she may come up with an explanantion. OK Atarah?
 
Alexander Constantine Liperindi Luders Goetshakoff Manchakoff Oloff Brounow Soukyponet Broughton

If he was 24 in 1880 he would have been born around 1856, just after the end of the Crimean War. I think his father (?or his mother) had an interest in Russian history, looking at those names.

Allowing for transliteration/illiteracy:

Alexander II, Tsar of Russia from 1855
Alexander II of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Constantine: Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Alexander's brothr and head of the navy during the Crimean War
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Luders: Count Alexander Nikolajewitsch von Lüders, active in the Napoleonic Wars and after
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Lüdershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Lüders

Goetschakoff: Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov, Foreign Minister when the Crimean War was drawing to a close and represented the Tsar at the Paris Congress of 1856
Gorchakov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Manchakoff: Prince Aleksandr Sergeyevich Menschikov, commander-in-chief on land and sea at the start of the Crimean War
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Orloff: Prince Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov, played a part in both the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars
Orlov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Still working on Liperindi, Brounow and Soukyponet!
 
Ancestry can nearly beat that, looking for a soldier who was supposed to be an Accrington man, came across a man name Littemess, opened the page. and his name was Septimus.
Retlaw.
 
Bet he got some stick at school...!
Thought there might be a Russian connection on Alexander's mothers side but her surname was Ward....and he was born in 1856, Sue.
Looks like he had a brother called Adolphus and a sister? called Algo Vera. Plus some sisters with more "normal" names.
 
steve2qec said:
Bet he got some stick at school...!
Thought there might be a Russian connection on Alexander's mothers side but her surname was Ward....and he was born in 1856, Sue.
Looks like he had a brother called Adolphus and a sister? called Algo Vera. Plus some sisters with more "normal" names.
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Algo Vera?? Isn't that what you slap on your sunburn??

BTW Steve where did all this come from? Do you subscribe to an ancestry site??
 
I actually indexed this entry for the Lancashire BMD Project and at the time looked at the births of the other members of the family to see what other names they came up with. Always thought there was a story behind this but will never know.
 
steve2qec said:
Bet he got some stick at school...!
Thought there might be a Russian connection on Alexander's mothers side but her surname was Ward....and he was born in 1856, Sue.
Looks like he had a brother called Adolphus and a sister? called Algo Vera. Plus some sisters with more "normal" names.
Click to expand...

steve2qec said:
Sounds a bit Spanish to me.

Got that info from here:
http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/cgi/birthind.cgi

....and it's FREE!!!!
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Silly me - of course!

I use FreeBMD, not used the Lancs one... BTW the link you posted did not work for me.
 
Atarah On 1st May, the speaker at the Hyndburn branch of the Family Hiostory Society is a Mrs Broughtoin, a formner registrar of BM&Ds. I suggest you drop them a line to bring this name to her notice. It may be that she is descended from your chap and knows summat about the reasons for the names.
 
steve2qec said:
Bet he got some stick at school...!
Thought there might be a Russian connection on Alexander's mothers side but her surname was Ward....and he was born in 1856, Sue.
Looks like he had a brother called Adolphus and a sister? called Algo Vera. Plus some sisters with more "normal" names.
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Looks like you missed one Steve, James Horsfold born 1847.

That makes five girls and three boys, from 1847 to 1863. Parents John Broughton and Elizabeth Ward, married St James's Accrington 1845.

I was wondering whether the name Algo for one of the girls might be a mistranscription of Alice or similar somewhere along the line?
 
Alexander may have been ill at ease with his names, as he named his children:-
Mary Emma, James, Maggie, Hary and Ethel. I wonder if this is the same family as the one which started the plumbers merchants (?) in King St under the viaduct?
There was a James Broughton, a solicitor, who died in 1914 aged 56yrs.
 
There was a girl who was a big mate of my first wife, they worked in the office at Shopfitters, she was called Perthia (not sure of the spelling here) and she hated it, she always said she would change her name by deed poll when she was old enough, not sure if she did or not
 
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