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Jessie James is in my family tree.



My Jessie James was born in 1892 in Newcastle, Australia. She married a Frederick W Morgan.

I have a question. Why do so many USAian men have girls names?

Take care.

Gordon.

We have girls names for men here too. Eg, Hilary, Francis/Frances, Joe/Jo, Mel, Harry (Harriet), George (Georgina), Robin/Robyn, etc.

And that's just off the top of my head.

However, we don't have any boys called Sue! :wah:

I think names only apply to a certain sex in particular countries. I know a girl called Andi, and a man called Stacy. It's strange but then who decided only girls should have a certain name and only boys should have others. My real name, Rosalind is a tradionally girlie name ( I dont usually use it being a tom-boy at heart) and I've yet to meet a male by that name. True I would have to fight the urge to giggle but I'm sure he would too

I just thought of a quaint story to tell. Our local primary school had a pet guinea pig called Trevor. For a good couple of years they believed it was a boy. Then shock horror it turned out Trevor was a girl. All the kids knew it as Trevor when they found out it was a girl the school changed her name to Trevorina so that it was still easy to remember.

vampress.rozz wrote: I just thought of a quaint story to tell. Our local primary school had a pet guinea pig called Trevor. For a good couple of years they believed it was a boy. Then shock horror it turned out Trevor was a girl. All the kids knew it as Trevor when they found out it was a girl the school changed her name to Trevorina so that it was still easy to remember.


Lol! I like that!

Hi vampress.rozz, this is probably wierd, but can I ask you if you used to belong to the Merlin Mystery forum?? Thanks.

Hi Rapunzel in answer to your question no sorry. From the title though it sounds like something I might enjoy. King Arthur was the only story that teachers picked and I actually enjoyed apart from Macbeth beyond that I was forced to suffer Jayne Eyre yuck with a capital YU and some other stuff that I snoozed through. :-5 I digress is there another vampress.rozz then? I often go under vampress or vampy in other things.

Lol! I Loved Jane Eyre! Brilliant novel!

No, the reason I asked was because someone at that site always had 'Blessed Be' as their signature. It's not a comment I've ever heard or seen anywhere else, until now. Thanks for answering my query though, I've been wondering for a while. :-6

I use blessed be as I am Neo-Pagan. It's kind of wishing the world in general happiness. I've only really started using it this year as I have become more defined in my religious beliefs. I always knew what I believed but have only know what people called it in about the last year. Here's the definition of blessed be from wikipedia

Blessed be" is probably the best-known Pagan expression. It is used as both a greeting and a farewell, and as a general expression of blessing/affirmation during ritual, similar to "amen". It is also commonly seen as a farewell in the form of "Blessed Be & Namaste."

How bizzare - I've just seen this thread for the first time..........while listening to the song Jesse James....spooky

gordonartist wrote: Jessie James is in my family tree.



My Jessie James was born in 1892 in Newcastle, Australia. She married a Frederick W Morgan.

I have a question. Why do so many USAian men have girls names?



Take care.



Gordon.




My wifes name is Jaimy. Her dads name was James. I think its a cute girls name.