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Help[Facts] Re: Is Endeavour really an existing male English first name?
in reply to a message by Nanaea
So they used his name in the TV series, did they - spoilsports!
Ship names do turn up sometimes - especially on the birth of a child to a woman whose husband went down with that specific ship. Just as well Morse Senior didn't have a passion for the Marie Celeste ...
I read somewhere that when African slaves were sold in the USA they needed Western names and were often called after the ship they arrived on; apparently this accounts for slaves' names like London and York which look geographical but were in fact the names of slave ships. Can anyone confirm this?
Ship names do turn up sometimes - especially on the birth of a child to a woman whose husband went down with that specific ship. Just as well Morse Senior didn't have a passion for the Marie Celeste ...
I read somewhere that when African slaves were sold in the USA they needed Western names and were often called after the ship they arrived on; apparently this accounts for slaves' names like London and York which look geographical but were in fact the names of slave ships. Can anyone confirm this?
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That would account for the slaves in old records named S.S. Minnow, Busted Flush, and Monkey Business...
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