Profile Accuracy Theme of the Week: Favorite Name

Question

This week's theme: Favorite Name.

To participate, simply:

1. Choose a profile that fits this week's theme.
2. Review and improve the accuracy of the profile.
3. Reply with an answer below to let us know which profile you chose.

Also see: Photo Sharing Theme of the Week: Spectacles

Answer 1

Actually, Martin is my favorite name; it was my paternal grandfather's name and it is my second given name as well as my son's second given name.

However, since I have already made his profile more accurate in another question, I decided to take Martin Lewerenz's paternal grandfather, Johann Christopher Hinrich Lewerenz, to improve the profile. After the second given name Christopher, my son is called by his first given name.
So my son Christopher Martin Lewerenz combines the names of his great-grandfather and his 3*great-grandfather in his first name.

The profile that I will improve this week is: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lewerenz-20

Answer 2

This week I have adopted John Favorite Sr.. He was born in 1799, and I will work on his profile for accuracy and add a biography and sources.

Comments

Alexis, thank you for adopting John Favorite, Sr.  It's not a common name but it never ceases to amaze me how many surnames there are.  There seems to be a surname for everything.  Okay.  Maybe not.  There's no Mr. Everything, is there?

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Pat, you got me curious about Mr. Everything, so I tried to find a family with the surname Everything. I did not find much, but I did find this:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148527434/harry-walker-everything

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I'm laughing. You are so funny.  You actually found a Mr. Everything.  Unfortunately he is deceased.  I hope he had a good life.

Answer 3

My favorite family name was my 2nd great grandfather Lancelot Hardy.  Since he has had a recent update I will work on his mother Hannah Hardy who had her out-of-wedlock son baptized (albeit with the word Bastard) in the All Saints Church in West Heslerton, Yorkshire. http://Wikitree.com/wiki/Hardy-6536. I added a photo of the church to her profile this morning. More information will follow. I added sources and information on the name Lancelot and West Heslerton. 

Comments

Pat what a magnificent beautiful church thank you for sharing

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Thank you, Susan, for your comment.  The church dates from the 13th century, was partially rebuilt in 1859, fully restored in 1886.  It is a Grade II listed building, and therefore protected.

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Thank You Pat for explaining about the church, I love old churches very much

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I do too, Susan.  The architecture and ornamentation is often amazing and there's such a calming atmosphere.

Answer 4

Well I have been working on quite a few Reed profiles, and there are many with no dates or locations. So this week I improved the profile for Sarah Anne Reed, who came via a GEDCOM import.

Answer 5

In 1774, Joseph  Coiteux and his wife Charlotte Guyon named their new baby daughter Marguerite, a lovely name which means "Daisy." They liked this name so much that in 1777, they named their new baby daughter Marguerite. When Marguerite grew up, she married Amable Deslandes and had 9 children. Her sister Marguerite married Francois Messier and had 10 children, including my  ancestor Cecile Messier. (Or was it the other way around?)

Yes, the two sisters Marguerite have Wikitree profiles--at least that it how it first appears. But take a closer look. Coiteux-31 married Amable Delande (Delande-72), while her sister Coiteux-34 married Amable Deslandes (Deslandes-350). The two Amables appear as brothers. A note for Coiteux-34 explains that she is not the sister who married Francois Messier--but that sister has no profile.

What a tangle! The two profiles for the same sister should be merged, as should the two profiles for their same husband Amable, but I am the profile manager for neither of them. I could create a profile for the sister who married Francois Messier, but I have no way to know whether she was the one born in 1774 or the one born in 1777.

I have gotten confused just explaining this all to you, so I took a picture of some daisies.

Comments

Yes, you should create the profile for the sister who married Francois.  I would suggest you copy your own comments and put them up on G2G with some snappy title for the Marguerites and see if you get some assistance.  And this is the song that is now playing in my mind:  Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do.

Answer 6

My favorite is a place name: Withernwick, the home of my ancestress Ellen Bowes, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Oman-485 .  I stumbled across it on her gravestone. https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2010/12/46622735_126338892950.jpg

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Withernwick! I enjoyed reading about this town, which looks just like I might expect. The cricket team was interesting, with the miller and the butcher and the blacksmith on it, and only Butcher Billy in a uniform.

Answer 7

I came across someone named Snowdrop the other day, as this is my favourite flower I have decided to work on the orphaned profile of Snowdrop Shoesmith born in 1886 in Anglesey, Wales. She had elder 'sisters' called Violet, Lily and Rose so the family obviously like flowers! I suspect these were aunts though as her GRO birth entry suggests her mother may not have been married.

Comments

Thank you Gillian for your answer. I had never heard of Snowdrops, so I read about them in Wikipedia. They really look lovely—I love white flowers. Glad Snowdrop Shoesmith is getting a wonderful profile by you.

Answer 8

I will work on [[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vigogne-2 Henry Vigogne]] as well as some other Vigogne surnames.

The name Vigogne has been passed down my maternal side, but it is not fully clear why the French name is in our very Irish/UK tree. It's fascinated me since beginning my research and I actually changed my own middle name to include it when changing my name after marriage.

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My father's middle name is Vigney.

Answer 9

One of my favorite names is Kajsa.  I run across Kajsas often in the Swedish part of my tree.  I liked it so much that I wanted to name my daughter, Kajsa, but my wife at the time would not hear of it.  She thought it was too unusual, and our daughter would be teased, so no Kajsa in the immediate family.

 I, therefore, haved picked a Kajsa out of my tree to improve:  Kajsa Olsdotter (Olsdotter-1772), my 3^rd great-grandmother, born in 1802 and died in 1871.

  I have also decided to use the accuracy challenge to try and improve the profiles of my direct ancestors, so many of whom have minimal biographies and sources.  Until now I have chosen to build the tree, but I am really interested in the lives of those who preceded me.  I might have to use a shoehorn to make them fit the challenge, but I will see.

Comments

If you'd named your daughter Kajsa, everyone would ask, "how do you pronounce it?" But if you told her she'd been named for her Swedish ancestor, she would be proud of it.

And by all means get out your shoehorn and fit your family into the challenges. That is what makes Wikitree so much fun.

When is the last time you saw a shoehorn?

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i think she would have liked the name, Kajsa.  But that is a done-deal now. As far as the shoehorn goes, I saw one not too long ago--last May.

Answer 10

My grandmother’s name was Hazel Belle Hackett. When I was younger I thought this was a strange name. Now I can hear the beauty in the name Hazel Belle. I will be working to improve her profile this week. Hazel Belle Hackett (Profile Updated)

Comments

Sara, you're probably too young to remember the famous comic actor Buddy Hackett.  He was in the movie "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", the TV series "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and was the voice of Scuttle in "The Little Mermaid".

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Yep, I do know who he is.  I've actually seen him in the shows/movies you mentioned.  I have our Hackett tree well documented back to Jacob Hackett from Hackettstown, New Jersey.  So far, no relation to Buddy Hackett.  But who knows, maybe somewhere far back in the family line there is a connection.

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I'm sorry. It suddenly occurred to me that it was Morey Amsterdam in the Dick Van Dyke show. The other shows I mentioned were correct but maybe Buddy Hackett was just his stage name.   A lot of the earlier actors and actresses changed their names. Anyway, Hazel Belle Hackett is a lovely name.

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Buddy Hackett's name was Leonard Hacker. Are you confused yet?

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I didn't know that.  I guess that explains why I have never seen him in and Hackett trees or research I have done.  

Answer 11

This week I improved the profile of Samuel Buck. He was named after his great-grandfather and my great-grandfather was named after him. I'm quite a fan of the name Samuel.

Answer 12

My most interesting family name is Philander C McCarter-557. Just found a merge with McCarter-376. Such a unique name.

Answer 13

In my paternal line, there are three generations of Carl Friedrich Eckstädt's. 

Currently I am browsing through Family Search's unindexed images of the Eckstädt's hometown, namely through a census that was taken somewhen between 1811 and 1817. In that census I found the oldest Carl Friedrich Eckstädt living with his wife in the house of his parents Gabriel and Dorothea. I looked at the birthdate of his father and thought: "What?" The name of his mother was fitting too, but the birthdate was also a little bit off the date that is recorded on the bmd-certificates I inherited of my granduncle, who had kept them after his brother had died in WWII. Hmmmm.

As first I corrected the birthdate. But then I realised what that actually meant. I know there were several Gabriel Eckstädt's born in my ancestor's town. My granddad connected the wrong parents couple Joachim Eckstädt/Margret Elisabeth (Neumann) Eckstädt to the correct Gabriel Eckstädt.

So now I disconnected Joachim and Margret from Gabriel Eckstädt. Bye bye, about 50 years of ancestry...  (That branch ends now in 1737 instead of 1683.)

Comments

Sorry for your loss, Jelena.  Perhaps a new line will open up. Your experience has happened to me too.  That's why improving accuracy is so important.  Many people living in the same place had the same names.

Answer 14

One of my favorite names is Stillwell. Today I improved the profile of Capt. James Stillwell, my 3 x great grandfather.

Answer 15

My favorite name of a genealogy I have used for my own family is "Meet the Tisdales".  It is now many years ago when I discovered this part of my tree, but every time I think of it, it comes out in song, to the Flintstones theme song.  Tisdale, meet the Tisdales, they're the modern Plymouth family!  From the town of Taunton, they're a page right out of history!   

To make it even more fun, the Tisdale origins have been befuddled by a fraudulent genealogist by the name of Horatio Gates Somersby.  He faked wills.  So we really don't know much about the English ancestry of the Tisdales.  But I always remember them, because of the great theme song for the genealogy!

Comments

I like your Tisdale song, Carolyn, but a crooked genealogist? That's a horror story.

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And not uncommon.  There was a time when if you paid more to the genealogist, you'd get royal ancestry, but if you didn't, you wouldn't.

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Warning: Innocent approaching.  I am shocked.  No wonder we have a WikiTree that appreciates accuracy.

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nehgs has whole books published cleaning up the apocryphal royal lineages of the New England planters.

Answer 16

For this week's profile I chose my grand uncle Jimmie Heard: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Heard-2365. Jimmie/Jimmy is a family favorite name as it's been passed down to many people in my family.

Answer 17

Four names stuck out to me on my genealogical adventure. Some are hilarious. Some helped me solve a puzzle: https://allroadhaverhill.blogspot.com/2021/08/52-ancestors-week-31-favorite-name.html

Answer 18

I adopted Adam Favorite.  He now has sources, a bio, location categories.  He and his spouse, Mary Bushong had 6 children, but only 1 is attached so far.

Answer 19

I added the rest of the children for Arminta Stephens Cooper: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stephens-7175

I blogged about an odd coincidence about her unusual first name: https://rhymeschemesanddaydreams.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/52ancestors-in-52-weeks-favorite-name/

Answer 20

My uncle died earlier this year, and his wife, my "Aunt Sue" - Janice Sue Rusk Maffett, passed away just this month. There were probably several people surprised by her given name of Janice, because no one called her that. She was always Sue, except to her grandchildren, who called her Mimi. She was a nurse and a really sweet lady. 

I created profiles for her parents and will connect them on up the tree as I am able in future months.