Many of us have ancestors who traveled by sea. But few of us know the names of the ships that conveyed our ancestors from place to place. That’s too bad, because some of these vessels had names like:
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M. F. Elliott Mabel Gale Mae Madeleine Constance Magda Maggie Todd Malcolm Baxter Jr Manuel Calvo Marco Minghetti Margaret May Riley Margarethe Russ Margery Austin |
Margit Skogland Maria Maria Valerie Mariana Marie di Giorgio Marina Marion G. Douglas Mariska Mary G. Maynard Mary Thomas Mathilda Maurice R. Thurlow |
Max Horten Maxwell R Melania Melissa Trask Miguel Jover Minerva Mirjam Mitchell Monica Morwenna Muriel Myron C. Taylor |
All of the above are actual ship names. These particular ships arrived at Ellis Island in the late 1800s and early 1900s. They could inspire some great baby names, couldn’t they?
Of course, performing genealogical research and then combing through passenger manifests is tedious business. And, even then, there’s no guarantee that the ship names you find in your family tree will be appropriate baby names.
But if you do put the time in, you might just discover a name that not only appeals to you, but is symbolic of your family, of overcoming hardship, of starting a new life. A name like that would certainly give your child a cool story to tell one day.
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Madeleine Constance is pretty ^^
And Margit Skogland is a super-Norwegian name!
That’s funny- I’ve actually considered this for a future daughter. My ancestors came to Philadelphia on the Lydia and I think it’s a beautiful name and would give some great history to my future daughter’s name!