christian names

[sammmo]

my grandfathers christian namr was "Neighbour" I've never heard this used as a christian name before.. has anyone any idea if this is a unique christian name or does anyone know of its origine..

[petal54]

never heard of it either,so no help,sorry,how old is/was your granddad?may just've be given to be unique!

[sammmo]

he was born in 1890. in the st ives area of cornwall although his perants were both from gloucestershire

[Schutzengel]

The name is very unusual today, but there were some very unusual names in the 1800s. At one time I was working cataloguing names and epitaphs from churchyard headstones, in the county of Cheshire, for the County Records Office, and one of the names (for a male person), that I came across was "Faithful" which I thought was lovely. If you want to look for further examples of unusual names, you could try your County Records Office, especially if you know where your grandfather was born you could try the County Records Office for that place. If it was in the 1800s before Census records were made, they also record, marriages, births, and deaths prior to that from Parish Records.

[mrs_overall]

It's unusual but would have been odder if he had been called "Home & Away"

[Buenchico]

Whereabouts was your grandfather born?

Here in East Anglia, the term 'bor' (which is a contraction of 'neighbour') is widely used as a generic form of familiar name. (e.g. "What dew yew be adewin on thar, bor?"). I wonder whether some families in the area might have adopted the more formal 'Neighbour' as a forename for their offspring?

Chris

[johntywino]

Hi. He probably got it from next door!