My Darling Emma 1857

Welcome to... My Darling Emma 1857 If you are NEW HERE be sure to read the beginning of the journey I am on transcribing my family's 19th century letter collection! R ecently someone very special to me shared that they were having a baby. It's such exciting news! And I'm really happy for them! Now it’s got me thinking of the usual will it be a boy or a girl and what will they name their baby? AND THEN I started to think of the letter collection and all the times I read folks congratulating new parents on babies being born AND the times relatives wrote asking for name suggestions for their baby etc etc. One of the many letters in the collection 🐥🐥🐥 So just for fun, I wanted to drop a few quotes from the letters in my collection about naming babies in the 19th century. There's a lot of great "old" names there if anyone is looking for names.  Enjoy these baby fever quotes from 150 years ago! And if you're having a baby in 2026, congrats! 🐥🐥🐥 “Min[Mi...