English Puritans of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were so immersed in Scripture that many of them chose words and phrases from Holy Writ as names for their children. Lower’s English Sur-names reports that a jury list from
Redeemed
God-reward Smart
Meek Brewer
Peace-of-God Knight
Be-faithful Juniper
Kill-sin Pimple
Seek-wisdom Wood
Make-peace Heaton
Stand-fast-on-high Stringer
Search-the-Scripture Moreton
Weep-not Billing
(and my personal favorite...)
Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith White
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to be saddled with Kill-sin Pimple. :)
ReplyDeleteDonna, I just listened to your talk from Women's Conference. In it, you referred to Lynette Reid and Marin Morrison. I did a search on lds.org and could not find either name. Do you by any chance have references where I can find their writings? Thank you
ReplyDeleteLenet Read's material can be found on LDS.org in the church magazine sections. Maren Mouritsen has some articles around in different places, (some hard to track down) and one is in the BYU Today alumni magazine.
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