Tuesday, December 5, 2006

More Christmas "characters"

I was devastated when the post came out about the Christmas characters that Dan Lynch posted on his web site, http://www.1930census.com/santa_clause.php. I had worked on most of those names for two weeks and was waiting for the "season" to post them.

So, here are the rest of my "character" findings -

1) Ebenezer Scroggs (1850, Harrison County OH) is as close to Ebenezer Scrooge as I can get.

2) Robert Crachet (1880, Scott County AR). Another Robert Crachet flew into NYC from Paris on Air France on 2 Aug 1956 - maybe to perform in a play on Broadway?

3) Three Grinch brothers (Charles, John and Lenwards) came into NYC on 6 September 1875 aboard the "Egypt" There is no word if they came to steal Christmas. Obviously, if they did, they failed.

4) There is a Jasper Magi and Baldermo Magi (1930, Fairfield County CT) but no Melchior; there are Gaspar Wiseman (1930, Queens County NY) and Melvin Wiseman (1930, Muskegon county MI), but no Balthasar or similar.

5) There are 18 Harold Angel persons in the 1930 census. No Hark Angel, however.

6) Sila Knight (1870, Randolph County, AL) is the closest to Silent Night I could find. Lots of Silas Knight people.

7) There are 3 Noel Noel persons in the 1930 census.

8) Angel Angel (1930, Maricopa County AZ) is one of the repeating angels.

9) There are two Merry Christmas girls in the 1930 census (there are lots of Mary Christmas females too).

10) Holly Bush (1930, Roanoke County VA) sticks out.

11) Christ Tree (1930, LaPorte County IN) probably extended his branches

12) Jessie Manger (1930, Polk County IA) parents were not Joseph and Mary

13) Then there are Santa's reindeer: Were they:
Cupid Wiseman
Melvin Dancer
Hugo Blitzen
Chris Donder
Rudolf Dasher
Dasher Berry
Prancer Saner
Vixen Locke
Theodore Comet

Just wondering!!

You know, if Bah Morgan (1900, Stephenson IL) had married Cecil Humbug (1900, Delaware County PA) we would have had more Humbugs than we would know what to do with.

I'm wondering if Alvin Monk (1930, Schoharie County NY), Simon Monk (1930, Lonoke AR) and Theodore Monk (1930, Cotton County OK) really got together in 1958 to sing The Chipmunk song. I guess they were a figment of Ross Bagdasarian's imagination.

OK, I'm done, but I wanted to get those out in the blogosphere before someone beat me to it.

What other Christmas related names are there? C'mon, lay them on me.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks Randy, these are fantastic!! A Google News Alert led me to your blog this morning and I'm so glad it did, these are exceptional finds! I'll post a link to it on my 1930 Census web site. My database of 'celebrity census' entries now numbers over 400. I'm trying to find your email so we can work together on these and others. Great genealogy minds think alike, I guess. Happy Holidays, Dan Lynch

Randy Seaver said...

Dan,

If you read this - my eddress is rjseaver(at)cox.net. You will probably google me before you read this...

I tried to use your contact form at your web site but it didn't send the message, AFAIK - it gave me a failure message.

I do like the professionalism of your web sites.

Anonymous said...

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