New Yorker Names

I came across these in a book on New York genealogy. Technically some of the names are Connecticut, England, or Holland, but since they are in the ancestry of New Yorkers, I felt the title for this post applied.



GIRLS

Aeltje

Jacomyntje




BOYS

Banyer

Beant -

Catoonah- name of an Indian chief in Long Island in the early 1700s

Clermont

Cuyler- I've seen Kyler in recent years, but this spelling was the first name of the author of a book on genealogy published in 1914.

Eckford

Goozen

Levinus

Medad - name of a New England colonial inhabitant

Roelif

Wolrave

New to Me Names - 2

GIRLS

Aurania

Cyntha -

Letha -

Marintha

Onila

Orissia - this is the name of a distant cousin of mine, who was born in the 1800s.

Rhodetha -Orissia's sister, so also my cousin.

Roseltha

Rozilla -

Seretta - the lady I came across with this name married a man with the last name of Sirrine. Now that is fun to say!

Sildona - this was the middle name for the lady named Cyntha I came across

Veleta -




BOYS

Almeron

Clermont

Ornetus

Orr

Whitford

Winthrop




NOT SURE OF GENDER

Armorel