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The 12 siblings of Ambrose Bierce

Writer Ambrose Bierce (1842-c.1914)
Ambrose Bierce

Versatile American author Ambrose Bierce was born in 1842, the tenth of thirteen children. His parents, Laura and Marcus Aurelius Bierce, gave all their children A-names, curiously. Here are all the siblings, in order of birth:

  1. Abigail Bell
  2. Amelia Josephine
  3. Ann Maria
  4. Addison Byron (who “worked as a strong man in a traveling circus”)
  5. Aurelius
  6. Augustus, nicknamed “Gus”
  7. Almeda Sophia
  8. Andrew, nn “Dime”
  9. Albert Sherwood, nn “Grizzly”
  10. Ambrose Gwinnett
    • “It is possible that Bierce got the names he did because his father may have read Douglas Jerrold’s Ambrose Gwinnett; or, A Sea-Side Story (1828).”
  11. Arthur
  12. twin Adelia (died in infancy)
  13. twin Aurelia (also died in infancy)

Which of the above names do you like best?

Source: Gale, Robert L. An Ambrose Bierce companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.

Image: Ambrose Bierce (public domain)

Male names in the Domesday Book

Page of the Domesday Book

I listed all the female names in the Domesday Book a while back, so today I thought I’d complete the project by listing all the male names.

The male names below appeared in the Open Domesday database just once, except where noted. (For the record, I overlooked entries in which one person’s name was used to refer to another person, e.g., “Aelfric’s uncle.”)

The most-mentioned name within each letter group is in bold.

If you make it all the way to the bottom, your reward is a top ten list. :)

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And now it’s time for the…

Top Ten Male Names

Which male were mentioned most often in the Domesday book? The #1 name was William, followed by Robert and Ralph:

  1. William (166)
  2. Robert (127)
  3. Ralph (124)
  4. Aelfric (88)
  5. Alwin (76) [tie]
  6. Hugh (76) [tie]
  7. Roger (73)
  8. Godwin (72)
  9. Walter (64)
  10. Godric (59)

Though the names in the book aren’t necessarily representative of name usage in England overall, it does make sense than William took the top spot. The Domesday Book was created a couple of decades after the Norman Conquest, at a time when the name William was very fashionable, thanks to William the Conqueror.

Image: Domesday Book for Warwickshire (public domain)

Baby name story: Burgess

Snow & Burgess (sailing ship)
Snow & Burgess

On September 5, 1902, Captain A. H. Sorensen of the five-masted schooner Snow & Burgess and his wife Marie welcomed a baby girl while at sea. Their location at the time was 10°N 117°W — in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles west of Central America.

Sorensen named the baby girl Burgess, after the ship.

The schooner, built in Maine in 1878, had been named after the New York shipping firm Snow & Burgess (est. 1853), which had in turn been named after founders Ambrose Snow and Joseph S. Burgess.

The surname Burgess, used in England and Scotland, means “freeman” (much like the name Charles) and refers to the social status of the original bearer.

P.S. The couple’s second daughter, born in 1903, was named Dagmar after Princess Dagmar of Denmark (Capt. Sorensen’s home country).

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Image: Snow & Burgess (public domain)