Genealogy Chat

I had a fairly close relation who went his whole life from before he was born known as Bump.

Even now I have to stop and think if I need to put his real name on my family tree.

All the boys in his family were given rather random nicknames.

Sue
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I have just remembered that about 20 years ago I contacted a now long gone uncle for any information about our family.I have found the letter and he lists his aunts and uncles.No mention of a Summers but there is a Mostyn.He must have thought Mostyn was his real name.One more red herring! Thanks for suggestions folks.
As it happened having an unusual name like Summers Boggon Stephenson made tracing him a bit easier.Or it would have been if he had been the only one.Can you believe he had a cousin a couple of years younger with the same name!

cheers

Mike

http://timplester.blogspot.com/2006/05/unclehood-part-ii.html

"In the meantime, my nephew
has given his new sibling the nickname of "Mossie".
Turns out that it means "first-born" in Swahili."

Not Swahili, you're thinking ...


http://worldcup.planet-rugby.com/Story/0,21043,13153_2649289,00.html

"Did you know?: Fourie's nickname is 'Mossie' - which means mosquito in Afrikaans."


Had anybody in the family served in the Anglo-Boer war?

"Mosquito" might not be far off after all. ;)

Where I grew up there was an area known as Marton Moss ... it was quite boggy and I always think of mossy and boggy being interlinked so you may find it was to do with his middle name rather than first name!

Su

Actually, there's always a chance he didn't like the name Summer and chose to be known as Amos - and this became Mossie.

maggie

If they had standing water - they had mosquitoes!!!

Hi Maggie
Did they have mosquitoes in Newcastle in the early 1900s!!!

Mike

Summer - Mosquitoes - Mossie ????

Aren't ancestors awful. My g grandad had the unusual name of Gifford. From first census he appeared in, and even on his grave he was known as Sidney!!!!

maggie

One of my great uncles had the wonderful name of Summers Boggon Stephenson. Boggon I know was the maiden name of his maternal grandmother Isabella Boggon.Summers as a christian name remains a blank!
However this man was known to my dads generation as uncle Mossie. Are there any lateral thinkers out there who could possibly suggest why Summers Stephenson would be known as Mossie!

cheers

Mike