Yer real name

[Red-Handed Jill]

cool name, Bully McGraw - where is St Francis Bay?

St. Francis Bay (or the Bay of St. Francis) is what we call the San Francisco Bay up hereaways.

[adam cyphers]

yup um...you guessed it adam cyphers

[Silkie McDonough]

missed this so many years back. MaryAnne

[Captain McCool]

Glad it was bumped!

Full legal name is Michael Sheridan.... erm.... Arms. That is to say Michael Sheridan Arms. I don't go by the "Arms" part if I can avoid it. It's my father's name, not mine. I've never known the man, and I've never had any interest in carrying on his legacy in that regard. So I usually go by my mother's maiden name, which also happens to be my legal middle name (foresight on her part perhaps? ), Sheridan.

So yeah, Michael Sheridan.

Which in retrospect would have actually been a perfectly decent pirate name. But since people from the ren faire already knew me as "Jack," it was just easier to stick with that. Plus, I like to pick a different name for a character, to try and distance that character from myself just a little. And no, McCool is not meant as a pun.

Edited May 24, 2010 by Captain McCool

[Tartan Jack]

Talk about reviving an OLD thread!

This one was 30 November 2005, 4.5 YEARS ago . . .

Anyways, my "real name" is the one I use on here, w/ the period-nickname given by Foxe.

John

"Tartan

Jack"

And the name that I have NO IDEA where it originally came from (seems to have been invented around 1691, probably of Scots who fled Scotland- to the Americas and England, by the occurrences around that period):

Wages

Used to also be spelled Wagers and Wager. In the very early 1700s, there was a Royal Navy Admiral named "Admiral Wager," who was stationed in the Caribbean. I'd like to know more about him!

(I wonder if we are physically related )

Edited May 24, 2010 by Tartan Jack

[Captain Robert Darksoul]

mine be Robert Davis Allsup

[LadyBarbossa]

No kidding! I didn't think we still had any old threads! Boy was I wrong! Bloody hell this is an old one! I feel old m'self!

Thought I posted on this one ages ago, too. Oh, well. Will post now.

M' real name is Stacy, derived from Anastasia which is Greek for "Resurrection".

~Lady B

[Brig]

Shana...like banana

[Duchess]

I was all set to blame this necromancy on Mission, but for once it wasn't him!

[Tartan Jack]

HAHAHAHAHA

It's usually Mission or me (bringing back up an information thread when the subject comes up again).

This time . . . it wasn't.

[callenish gunner]

(I wonder if we are physically related )If you're having physical relations with a dead guy I don't even want to know!!!

:unsure:

[jollyjacktar]

Cran Henderson Ohlandt Jr.

or CJ

Cran Henderson, was my grandmother's brother (on my dad's side)

As far as I have heard Ohlandt means "Of the Land" in German

[Bloody Bill Flint]

Alexander from the Greek for "Defender of Man".Etymologically, the name is derived from Αλέξανδρος Aléxandros, which is a compound of the Greek verb ἀλέξω (alexō) "protector of men", "to push back", "to hold off" and the noun ἀνδρός (andros), genitive of ἀνήρ (anēr) "man". It is an example of the widespread motif of Greek (or Indo-European more generally) names expressing "battle-prowess", in this case the ability to withstand or push back an enemy battle line. Appropriate seeing as I'm a Soldier just like my namesake.

Edited May 24, 2010 by Bloody Bill Flint

[Kenneth]

Kenneth, but everyone just calls me "whats his face"

[Bos'n Cross]

this is ssssooooo very old..........Reginald Kirton is my name the last name is weird i admit, but as i can tell it is scottish for "church-settlement" or "churchland"...which......funny enough is the exact name of the part of town i live in lololololol.......

[Tartan Jack]

(I wonder if we are physically related )If you're having physical relations with a dead guy I don't even want to know!!!

:unsure:

You know what I mean . . .

Descendant or the like.

[Captain McCool]

(I wonder if we are physically related )If you're having physical relations with a dead guy I don't even want to know!!!

You know what I mean . . .

Descendant or the like.

Uh huh... suuuuuure....

[Anne Coates-Sharpe]

Shana...like banana

know this, and yet ... always say Shay-na, like Rain-a.

So, kick me ...

[Anne Coates-Sharpe]

It's Patricia Ann (without an 'e')

My German mother chose it off a list of the most common American names the year of my birth.

[Bloody Bill Flint]

Shana...like banana

know this, and yet ... always say Shay-na, like Rain-a.

So, kick me ...

"Now there is one thing every girl in the whole world whose name is Shana has in common with each other - we all hate the name Shawna. And we really hate when people call us Shawna. Remember it's Shana banana not Shawna banawna."

[Nigel]

Now here's an old thread, with old names I sort of recognize, and new names I am also glad to see...

My name is Michael (yes, the Archangel - that's what Mom had in mind) Kloepfer.

Most of you from civilian life know me as Mikey. Yup, the Life cereal commercial stuck - which, oddly enough, only really bothers my sister...

Now my last name is where it gets trippy.

I have a couple German guitar students who finally showed me how to pronounce it in proper German, umlauts and all; though I dare not try myself, lest I sprain my tongue.

I have heard many tales over the years about the origin of the name Kloepfer.

From another named Kleopfer, I heard that when the family came to America, they split and some used the "oe" and some used the "eo." Interesting.

My two favorite stories about the origins of the name in German are:

* The clapper part of the church bell (loud and clamorous, yet simultaneously musical - I'm down with that.)

* The large, spatula-like implement that housewives used to beat the carpets to get the dust out. I don't care if it's accurate, it cracks me up.

So, my favorite literal translation of my name is "Mikey Rugbeater."

And there you have it.

Rummy3? Really?... Nancy?

"You mean... Audrey Farber...???"

[Silkie McDonough]

Okay, since everyone is doing the last name thing I will too.

My last name is also German. Fleckenstein.

fleck = spot or speck

in = in

stein = stone

A flecked stone. Granite.

There is a small castle on the southern Rhine hewn of solid granite. (I haven't researched the fact to check if it is indeed carved from solid granite.) The name of the castle? Fleckenstein of course.

[Nigel]

Fleckenstein.

fleck = spot or speck

in = in

stein = stone

A flecked stone. Granite.

Then, the Americanized version would be "Frecklestone."

Yer a hard woman, Silkie...but yer freckles are so adorable!

Edited May 30, 2010 by Nigel

[Silkie McDonough]

Fleckenstein.

fleck = spot or speck

in = in

stein = stone

A flecked stone. Granite.

Then, the Americanized version would be "Frecklestone."

Yer a hard woman, Silkie...but yer freckles are so adorable!

As my mother (Edna McDonough) use to say ...if I could just get the freckles to blend I would have a wonderful tan. lol

[Capn Bob]

Thought I had responded to this...but it seems not...

Okay...I am Robert Alan Curtis. I am the second Robert in the family...we tend to use names more than once. Family has been on these shores since 1637.

Meaning...Robert, according to those who actually get paid to know these things, is Old German (I knew an old German once...Herr Schmidt, principle of the school I went to when we were stationed in Germany) for "Bright Fame".

I'm still waiting to become famous...I'd even settle for "Dull Imfamy"

Alan is also Old German, for "Precious" Awww...

Curtis is Old French, for Courteous, and is possibly a court name, and was brought to England during the Norman Invasion. I suspect the family might have been involved in that...one of Billy-boy's (William I) hackers and slashers.

One of Blackbeard's boys, killed at Ocracoke, was a certain Joseph Curtice. I suspect him of being a distant relation (based on no evidence whatsoever), and I have adopted him. Trouble is, he never calls, never writes...family, eh?