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Help[Facts] Re: Awahtok (m) and Equrk (f)
in reply to a message by familymystery
These names sound Native American or even Eskimo to me.
This text (http://www.societe-de-lecture.ch/pages/bibvirt_eurotxt3.html), situated in 1860, mentions a young Eskimo called Awahtok.
Did the parents have American friends with Native roots? Or maybe they found the name in a novel or something, if exoticism was fashionable at the time (that could explain the Italian names)...
Tell me, is it possible to christen a child with a non Christian name? If no, that would mean that there's a Saint Awahtok & a Saint Equrk... very strange!
Do tell me if you find anything, I'm curious now!
~~ Claire ~~
This text (http://www.societe-de-lecture.ch/pages/bibvirt_eurotxt3.html), situated in 1860, mentions a young Eskimo called Awahtok.
Did the parents have American friends with Native roots? Or maybe they found the name in a novel or something, if exoticism was fashionable at the time (that could explain the Italian names)...
Tell me, is it possible to christen a child with a non Christian name? If no, that would mean that there's a Saint Awahtok & a Saint Equrk... very strange!
Do tell me if you find anything, I'm curious now!
~~ Claire ~~
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