Nothing to do with knitting, and very little to do with genealogy. Whilst I’m busy working on a piece for ‘Ply’ magazine, I thought I’d share with you this rather cool list of 19thC dog names I compiled a while back.
These were all found in The York Courant and The Birmingham Daily Post, so are the names of coursing hounds and bull terriers. I got the bull terrier names from dog show reports.
I missed a trick when we named our new pup back in November. Should have called her ‘Titsy’.
Beauty
Ben
Blucher
Bolingbroke
Brighton
Brutus
Clari
Crib
Daisy
Gambler
Madman
Mercury
Meteor
Miller
Modesty
Nelson
Old Puss
Phantom
Puss
Quick
Rattle
Rebel
Regent
Regulus
Spider
Spy
Swift
Tippet
Titsy
Trictrac
Tumbler
Villa
Viscount
Wallace
White Prince
Young Prince
PENELOPE HEMINGWAY 
9 replies on “Nineteenth Century Dog Names”
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Bee is just beautiful!
I am an online friend of Caro’s and wonder if you could please email me directly. I have been thinking of her, and have not heard from her for a few weeks. Thanks so much!
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Susan, email me at penelopehemingwayATgmail.com x
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My DD nickname when she was little was Bee…as in “B is for baby”. And we had a mackerel striped tabby called Bee when I was little, he was pale tan and black.
I like the idea of a small dog called Madman though.
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Yes – have to admit, Madman caught my eye, too! That was a bull terrier… Having had mainly bull terriers all my life, I can see why someone might think that was a good name.
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Love this list … I often wonder whose names are missing from census documents, I am sure that cats and dogs were family members in the past as now!
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I wonder if Puss and Old Puss were used for hare coursing, as the hare was called ‘puss’ or ‘pussy’ like a cat. Interesting list. I’ve come across Meteor and Mercury both as horse names too.
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