My Grandad wanted my Mum to call me Cynthia

[dot.hawkes]

Now no offence to anyone called Cynthia or with a Cynthia in their life, but which Cynthia in 1955 would he have been thinking of to have come up with that name? Was there a famous Cynthia ever?? He was a hill farmer near Todmorden and there were no Cynthias in the family, i have proved that for sure.
What should you have been called???? lol

[bigmamma]

Hello there 10ClarionSt , nice to see you again as I haven't bumped into you lately to say hi :-) xx

[Barmaid]

Dot - coming from a farming family do you think it possible it was after one of his cows? I am not being funny, but that's what my family did - named their daughters after prized cows (hence cousins Poppy and Daisy). I was damn lucky not to be called Ermentrude!!!

[dot.hawkes]

blimey you know you could well have a point there, he had one of the first freisan milking herds in west yorkshire and though i don;t remember anything said about naming them maybe he did!!!!!!! that would be so cool!!!! they were great big beasts and he was really successful with them for many years til he retired

[tara20]

Hi Shaney!
Funny, my daughter's middle name is Helga, too. She was named after my favourite sister-in-law who died two years before she was born. But she got a more modern first name first name to make up for it!

[Drisgirl]

Cynthia Lennon -only one I can think of.

The more you say it the less worse it gets -funny that.

I was to be Ann or Linda -late 50's vogue then I got Maureen and recently that has been the bane of my life -I actually liked my name as my maiden name was Irish and my married name is as well so they went well together -dont take to kindly with being called 118 as though they are the first to say and thank eff that the BOUNTY makers decided it was to be Audrey in the window in Amsterdam and not the Maureen tranny -lol

[Bathsheba]

Oh Dot! Dya come from Tod??! It's one of my fave places!

[dot.hawkes]

I was born in Mytholmroyd but all the family were from Tod, up at Cross Stone in fact

[Bathsheba]

Always makes me feel happy going to Tod then on to Hebden Bridge. Expect it's the ley lines or similar!

[tara20]

Elizabeth Taylor played the title role in the film "Cynthia" in 1947.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039293/

Not bad if you were named after her!

[dot.hawkes]

My godmother lives in hebden, mum went to hebden bridge grammar school with ted hughes and bernard ingam, i was born on a farm over the tops above hebden on the halifax road