Yesterday's post on my mining forebears and the delicately named Rowena put me in mind of my oddly named great-great-great-great grandmother, Jacobina. She married my 4 x great grandfather in 1787 and I often wonder how the name went down once the Bastille had fallen. Was she suspected as a sans-culotte? [Whether she changed the name or was the victim of a mistranscription, she appears later as Robina.] A bit like someone being called Spartaka in the 1950s, I suppose.
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