Elizabethan names...?

Question

I have to do a project in english class and I am going to be a 25 year old widow from the village in Elizabethan times. We have to write a journal entry... Does anybody have any name suggestions? I kind of like Alice. They have to be from Elizabethan times. How would the last name work if I am a widow from that time?

Answer 1

www.elizabethan.org   and

www.s-gabriel.org/names/christian/fair...  -the  first one has tons of info- and the second one actually has list of names for that period.

Answer 2

This site explains how to construct a real Elizabethan name :

http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/christian...

Here you will find Elizabethan first names

http://www.museangel.net/character.html

And a list of last names

http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/christian...

Answer 3

jane,cassandra, ummmm...that's all the names i know...

Answer 4

Elizabeth. Mary. Wenceslas. Ooglak. Squanto. Schlimbogger. Bumplumper.

Answer 5

Elizabeth

Catherine

Frances

Cecily

Millicent

Audrey

Joan

Elinor

Joyce

Frideswide

Rose

Helen

Margaret

Isabel

Bridget

Grace

Thomasin

Janet

Agnes

Dorothy

Christian

Amy

Fortune

Sybil

Alice

Margery

Edith

Barbara

Gillian

Ursula

Anne

Susanna

Emma

Rachel

Judith

Avis

Mary

Ellen

Lucy

Charity

Julian

Beatrice

Jane

Sarah

Martha

Mabel

Philippa

Blanche

Clemence

Marion

good, names, i think

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Answer 6

Elizabeth is one of the Elizabethan names. Also Mary (VERY common). If you were from Elizabethan times, and your name was Alice, it would be spelled Alyce. You might or might not have a last name at all - depends on your station in life. If you were above the common people you would have a last name, but if you were one of the women who worked in the castle - helping in the kitchen or whatever, your married status would be recognized by being called Mistress. And you would still be called that even if you were a widow.

If you belonged to the nobility, you would take your husband's name and you would still be called by that name, even if you were a widow.

Answer 7

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/f...

has real historical records. I used it. I set the name to John Smith (It demands you enter a first and last name), the event to "Marriage" (to be sure to get a variety of women's names), the date to 1583 with a (+/-) 20 years (giving 1563 - 1603) and the country to England. I got a pile of them.

You would be, depending on who was asking,

Alice, widow of John Smith

Widow Smith

Alice, relic of John Smith

Alice Smith

You might spell it Smithe, or Smythe as your whimsey took you, too. Shakespeare could (and did) spell his name over 40 ways.

If you were like most women who we only know about from "To my loving wife Alice" in Hubby's will, your maiden name would be lost in the mists of time.

Answer 8

Mary, Anne, Alice, Joan...