maleficent

My brother got his name from my father's middle name as his first name, and my mother's maiden name as his middle name.

My sister's first name is my mother's middle name and her middle name is my father's mother's middle name.

My name -- they liked the name Ellen - that was going to be my first name, but my father's sister (Eleanor) said that I'd end up with the nickname Ellie, and that rhymed with Smelly -and it was a horrible way to go thru life (guess what her nickname was?) So.... I was still going to be Ellen - -then I opted to show up a few weeks early, and I was born 6 minutes after the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and my parents being good little Catholics, tacked Mary on to the front of the Ellen -- My middle name, Catherine, was just pulled out of the air (my father's girlfriend? Who knows) My birth certicifate spells my name as Mary Ellen -- I had it legally changed to all one word when i was in high school, when I got sick to death of being called Mary - because it wasn't my name - -and people couldn't quite grasp that I had two first names.

When I was researching my family tree-- about 4 generations back, on my father's side. there was a Mary Ellen -- so to make myself fit in with my family, that's who I claim I was named after...

Don't you feel like a better person now that you know that?

__________________