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dragonlady7 ([personal profile] dragonlady7) wrote2017-02-20 01:00 pm

What’s the coolest family name in your histor

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wyomingnot:

lcn71:

knitmeapony:

Either first/middle names that are passed down, or last names that you may not share that you are related to?

I’m still salty that I didn’t inherit my name through my mother’s side, or I might be a Van Den Boom – spelled (as I like to say it when I steal the name for characters) capital-V, capital-D, capital-Boom!

I recently discovered that I am related to an Abraham Jacob van Imbijze Van Batenburg.

I have no idea how to say Imbijze, but I think it fucking rocks.

The best I can do here is… my grandmother’s and mother’s middle name is Maxine. Sadly, my mom hated that name, so I did not get Maxine as a middle name as well. Which is sad-making. Because at some point, I know I would have started going by my middle name. “Call me Max.” :)

Somewhere in the depths of the 19th century there was an immigrant from Scotland, from whom i am somehow descended, and I shit you not, his actual name was:
Launcelot Junco.
For real! Launcelot Junco. I just think that’s great.