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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thomas
James
Mary Catherine
Charles
Annie[/quote]

Thomas  James  Mary Catherine  Charles  Annie
Thomas  (Hebrew for twin; popular throughout medieval Europe and took off in England after the Norman conquest in 11th century)
James  (Hebrew for supplanter) 
Mary Catherine  (two ancient names in many languages meaning beloved and innocent) 
Charles  (old English from Ceorl meaning “free man”)
Annie (English meaning Grace, open and optimistic. The sun’ll come out tomorrow, just you see)

Like Kate Middleton, your family traces its lineage back to the  eighteenth century British novelist Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817). You have read all of the novels of your great aunt six generations removed: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), and even Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818,

Two of your sons are named for both uncles and Jane Austen’s brothers: James (1765–1819) and Charles John (1779–1852). Your oldest Thomas, is named for the brilliant patron saint of academics, St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) who is venerated in the Anglican Communion as well as the Roman Catholic Church. His Summa Theologiae paved the way for Christians to embrace both the tenets of their faith and to follow rigorous and logical scientific thinking. Your brainy medical husband appreciates his historical contributions.

Mary Catherine is named for Mary and Catherine Bennet in your favorite Jane Austen novel, Pride and Prejudice. You hope the combination would pay tribute to both methodical steadfastness of Mary and the enthusiastic abandon of Catherine.

Your family’s guilty pleasure is that you all thoroughly enjoyed the critically panned 2016 interpretation of your fave novel: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

You come from a long line of Anglican ministers and family physicians. Your grandfather was invited by the international Red Cross to serve in Ghana (then the Gold Coast) after it was the first country to gain independence from colonial powers in 1957. Your grandfather was invited to an audience with Queen Elizabeth II during her controversial trip to Ghana in 1961 and to meet the African American leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X when they visited Ghana during the heady early days of independence with high hopes for pan Africanism. In that era doctors were held in high regard, and even more so in countries where medical professionals were in such short supply.

Also although Africans deeply resented all colonial rulers, the a British were widely regarded as the lesser of many evils (the worst being the Belgians in Congo).

Your family longed for England and became more British than the British while also enjoying having many staff to help with mundane domestic work. You grew up having high tea every afternoon at 4 pm and oddly also referring to even dinner as tea.

However, you were all sent to boarding schools in Britain for High School and you and your siblings stayed on for University in the homeland. You were surprised that so few treated high tea like a religious ceremony as you were used to. You met your husband at Oxford. Your hubby, a Rhodes Scholar around the same time as a Rachel Maddow was, hoped to discover something akin to penicillin as the notable Rhodes Scholar and Nobel prize winner Howard Florey did.

He is now high up at the National Institute of Health, the nation’s leading medical research agency. However, he is usually peddling fast under water and not going very far as he corrects endless public COVID misinformation, helps public health officials to navigate death threats from Q Anon conspiracy theorists and helps scientists to pack up their painstaking research as quickly as possible when Congress fails to authorize the necessary budget to keep the shop open.

St Thomas Aquinas have mercy on us![/quote]

Whoops

Annie (English meaning Grace, open and optimistic)  was the surprise baby and named for the unexpected joy she brings to your family.[/quote]

Interesting take, thank you ! I have never read any Jane Austen and I'm also the furthest thing from English, I do have a connection to Ghana, where I traveled to once because I figured my family likely had roots there, recent DNA testing confirmed this.
My husband has been to the UK, but not as a Rhodes scholar, though he is a bright man.  We're both terribly average, but do work in healthcare and are pretty passionate about science.
DH is Catholic, I am not. DH's first wife was also Catholic, and a lover of Brit Lit,  DH also has a thing for religious history thus their children's names. Yes, I am a stepmom. Thomas ,James ,Mary Catherine  and Charles DH had with his first wife, who sadly passed away, Annie is ours together, and was very much planned, but she is everybody's little ray o sunshine. We do enjoy   cheesy  movies together as a family and  building lego kits.
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You are welcome! 😃
Wow /I am amazed that anything was remotely accurate and actually assumed your family was more likely to be Catholic but I wanted to have fun with the British stiff upper lip and former African colony angle.

So Cool about that Ghana connection. Have you read Homegoing by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi (2016)? It is astonishing in its breadth and depth. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by very different circumstances. One marries a British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister is held captive in the dungeons below. Subsequent chapters follow their children and following generations through three hundred years and cover the Anglo-Asante wars in Ghana, slavery and segregation in America. It brings to life the horrors of slavery but in very human ways as you can easily imagine and feel for the characters.

Also cool that you are both in health care and science lovers. I try to tie stories back to DC and know that it has been very challenging for many scientists and doctors working at NIH and other medical centers. So much Lunacy to deal with. Thank you for your health care work.

I love that Annie is your collective sunshine! Such a happy name. 🌞 [/quote]

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