We have all discovered interesting names and stories in the course of our family history research. Some more unusual than others. Researchers here at Ancestry took a look through our collections to see if they could find some festive names.
Mary Christmas from South Carolina and Mrs. Belle Ringer of West Virginia are just two of the real life festive names uncovered this Christmas by our researchers. A. Goodyear, Dallas-born Snowflake Williams and six year old Tim Sell from Essex were also found in our collections.
A Christmas Day sing along would not be complete without Caroline Song, who is listed as living in the 1861 UK census. Holly Berry’s records reveals she grew up under the care of her father, a corn and manure merchant, in Devon.
Santa Claus may not have made it around the world without the help of Rudolf Deer, who our researchers found in Ancestry’s Jamaican ‘1878-1930’ Civil Birth Registrations collection. Christmas can be a romantic time for some and it wouldn’t be complete without Miss L. Toe who appears in the All Calendar of New Jersey Wills ‘1670-1760’ in 1689.
Finally, a family of elves were located in the 1921 Canadian Census. Head of the household Alexander Elves lived in Ontario along with his wife Sarah and their three children, the youngest of which was – rather fittingly – named Minnie Elves.
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