| Show ODDLY NAMING A curious chapter might 0 be written on christian names bestowed in mere caprice or for the sake of oddity A man in maine by the name a me of ham hain called one of his sons ledl the ile late dr lemuel shattuck in his memorials of the shattuck family faintly says 11 we drice once had u under R aei ael dei instruction in detroit 1 it a family whose sons cons sons bons were i named one stick stio ck 7 1 ney two stickney three tl I 1 k ney an nd whose daughters au ghers were frere named first Stick stickney nS second stickney and so on om the three hildren of a family nearer home were joseph jos eph and another and it has been supposed that hat should hey they have any more they might have named them hem also moreover Alore over nevertheless notwithstanding an in instance sance is also given of par enis who named their child thild finis supposing it would be their last but having afterwards three more children a daughter and two sons bons they were called addenda appendix and supplement the same writer mentions a man named new N ew who called his first child something Some thing Lhing and the second nothing 09 he the author of suffolk surnames says bays he was acquainted with a woman whose christian rather unchristian name was |
