Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780806346496)

Students of Puritan New England genealogy will appreciate Bardsley's lively discussion of the eccentricities of Puritan naming practices, which occupies nearly half of this volume. It was left to the English Puritans to take Biblical naming one step further, by "baptising children by scriptural phrases, pious ejaculations or godly admonitions," as if to "separate the truly godly and renewed portion of the community from the world at large . . . ." Thus Merciful, Accepted, Truth, Temperance, and so on were similarly placed into use, and, as Bardsley points out, imported to New England where they and names like Increase, Reliance, Welcome, and Pardon were much in evidence among the first generation of native-born Americans. All in all, this is a masterly work on Puritan and other English naming practices.

Author: Charles Wareing Bardsley
ISBN-10: 0806346493
ISBN-13: 9780806346496
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2014
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d