Genealogy Chat

There are very few femailes in the 19th century called Victoria. You would think there would be some with the queen being Victoria at the time, i havn't seen any. Gill

I agree........a few start appearing after the golden jubilee (1887) and another flurry after the 1897 jubilee..........but not that many considering...... Merry

Merry, It's very strange, i expected to find alot, but all i'v got are Elizabeths, Marys, Anns witha couple of Jemimas and Lavinia and a Ruth. Gill Forgot Sarah and a Phillis lol

Perhaps they thought it would be disrespectful, or maybe they didn't like the old bag! I'm not sure any of my or husband's relatives were named after royalty, except his grandmother's siblings, she had a brother called Victor and a sister with Victoria as a middle name. But they were both born after Queen V. died. nell

Hellen , I always liked the name Victoria, my first child was always going tobe Victoria, but ended up Stuart and second was really going to be Victoria but was Stephen in the end, the third i hedged my bets and said Victoria or Simon and guess what, yes it was Simon, lol Gave up after that Gill

Got one Victoria in the late 1800's Suddenly in the late 1800's I suddenly got a good few Germanish names that seem to come from nowhere..... and they don't seem to have a link to mum, dad is driving me mad trying to trace him.

Hi Sharon ,it's very odd how each family has a pool of names that go through the generations, until the early 20th century when there seems to be a break with the tradition. I quite like the idea of carrying on the names, my youngest son has just had his baby named Joseph after my father, i was thrilled Gill

I've mentioned this on the boards before. I was told it was a 'foreign' name, Gemanic, and was therefore disliked. But there were loads of Alberts and Berties?

All the Carolines, Amelias, Fredericks etc are named after her aunts, uncles & earlier members of her family, but you are right. Very few Victorias. Certainly none in my family. But my Edmund Albert Skillings was born in 1840, so his mother was clearly being ultra fashionable.

Helen, you'v told me something i didn't know, i know she had a German father but for some reason i always thought Victoria was English.( the name i mean). Gill

Phoeenix and Helen is Albert English or German. I know Albert was German (her husband) but again Albert seems such an English name. Gill

I've got one poor lass connected to my tree who was christened Victoria Diamond Jubilee Jobling. Guess what year she was born! Not content with that, she married a man named Albert! I did consider calling my own children Victoria and Albert - but then I went and married a man with the surname Hall. Tina

I think GR should offer a prize to the first member to find a Tracey, Kevin or Wayne on a Victorian census.

1851 census Samuel Wayne Cooper abt 1840 Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England Son Chesterfield Derbyshire Wayne O Dale abt 1844 Willenhall, Staffordshire, England Daughter Willenhall Staffordshire Wayne Schlott abt 1841 Walworth Daughter Lambeth Surrey John Wayne Weatherspoon abt 1849 Liverpool Grandson Toxteth John Wayne Wood abt 1827 West Yorkshire, Lepton Son Lepton Yorkshire 1861 census Kevin C Allen abt 1828 Westminster, St Mary le Strand Wife Paddington Middlesex Kevin Bosings abt 1843 Stepney, Middlesex, England Servant Poplar Middlesex Kevin Cross abt 1793 Marylebone Lodger St Luke Middlesex Kevin Ekers abt 1815 Hampshire, England Wife Holborn St Andrew Middlesex Kevin H Gray abt 1824 Stanstead, Essex, England Wife Bishops Stortford Hertfordshire Kevin Hobbs abt 1788 Rudge, Wiltshire, England Wife Froxfield Wiltshire Kevin Percy abt 1834 Wootton, Northamptonshire, England Laundry Maid Northampton St Andrew Northamptonshire far too many Tracey/Tracy to put up in all the census **just notcied - most of the Kevin's appear to be women***

Although Victoria wasn't common, Queenie was later on and I always imagined that was a sort of tribute? Paul, I have a Tracey born in 1780 Oxfordshire who was still alive in 1851. What do I win:? ))

Zoe and David, we all win the prize for being the saddest people on this thread!

lol Paul

I have got a Victoria Jubilee !!!!!!!!!!

Sandra, I've got a Jubilee Albert to go with your Victoria Jubilee .

Sharon, thanks, there can't be many of them.........Mine was Victoria Jubilee Rose Jeary,born 1888.