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As we all know, the Pharaoh name got into the Cobb family when Joseph
Cobb and Elizabeth Flinton of Jamestown named one of their sons Pharoah,
but how had the Pharaoh name got into the Flinton family?
Thanks to the wonderful resource that is books.google.com (and the
expiration of the US copyright laws ;-), as well as the Microsoft
Corporation, a very old magazine called Overland Monthly and Out West
Magazine (the combination of two formerly competing magazines) was
scanned in and indexed, and is now available online:
http://www.archive.org/details/overlandmonthlyo85sanfrich
This particular issue, from 1927, has an article about the naming habits
of the early Puritans in England. Basically, the article says that the
Bible was translated into English, printed, and began to be widely
available in the sixteenth century. Ordinary people began to read it,
and to name their children after what they read.
It's actually quite amusing! Here is a relevant quote:
In the Manchester Directory for 1877 we find a "Kerenhappuck Horrocks",
while in 1850 there was one "Kesiah Simmons", and in 1862
"Eli-Lama-Sabachthani" Pressnail staggered along under his terrific
load. Another luckless wight, bearing his sorrows thick upon him, was
"Lamentations" Chapman, mentioned as early as 1590. "Dust" and "Ashes"
enjoyed great vogue.
Here we find in one register a "Boaz" Sharpe, "Pharaoh" Flinton,
"Obadiah" Hawes, "Malachi" Mallock, "Epaphroditus" Haughton, "Annanias"
Mann. Surely "Barabbas" was not a happy thought, still there was a
"Barabbas" Bower in 1713.
Boy, would I love to get my hands on that register!
Best regards,
Stephanie
P.S. The Mann name mentioned in the same parish as the Flinton name is
interesting to me, as well, since an Elizabeth Mann witnessed the will
of a John Farrowe alias Farrar Flinton in 1625. As most of us probably
know, the Cobb family generally pronounces the name Pharaoh more like
Farra(r), so there may be a conection there, as well. See
ftp://ftp.cobbfamilygenealogy.org/pub/Farrar/John_Farrowe_Will.pdf.