MOTERŲ ĮVARDIJIMAS XVIII AMŽIAUS PRADŽIOJE: TELŠIŲ BAŽNYČIOS KRIKŠTO METRIKŲ STUDIJA
WOMEN`S NAMING IN TELSIAI PARISH IN THE FIRST DACADES OF THE 18TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The novelty of this study mostly depends on the source which is the 18th Century Telsiai Parish Baptism Registry Book. On the first page of the Parish Baptism Registry Book there is a record in Latin: Metrica Baptorum in Ecclesia chiali Telsensi Conotata ab Anno bi incarnate 1700 (The baptism register of Telsiai Parish church, has been written since 1 700 A.D.). The baptism book is worn out and therefore, a significant number of the registers are hardly decipherable, often chaotically desultory (e.g. in a number of the records information about baptized person or other members of the ceremony is missing). However, the inscriptions follow a particular order applied in this document. In most cases the order is following: baby’s naming, parents’ naming, godparents’ naming and naming of other ceremony members of chistening. The purpose of the current research is to collect and analyze all women’s namings from the source including namings of baptized girls, their mothers, godmothers ant other women who attended christening ceremony. The object of the study is women’s namings and anthroponyms collected from the 18th Century Telsiai Parish Baptism Registry Book. This study attempts, firstly, to collect analyzed women’s namings according to their structure; secondly, to classify women’s first names according to their origin, frequency, phonetic, graphic versions caused by orthographic peculiarities of that time. The analysis involves 2 967 women’s namings collected from the Telsiai Parish Baptism Registry Book. 2 974 first names were collected. The most popular type of women namings include two anthroponyms otherwise called binomial naming (60.9 % of all women’s namings). Monomial naming (38.9 %) was less frequent, while women’s naming in three anthroponyms (trinomial naming) is very rare (0.3 %). In the source 2 950 women’s monomial, binomial and trinomial namings were registered including first names. Only Christian names were used, and the most popular women’s names according to their origin were Greek names (14), Hebrew names (8), and Germanic names (4). Only 48 original first names were found. The most popular women’s first names in the source are the following: Anna, Elizabetha, Catharina, Justina, and Magdalena. The registry book contains 27 women’s first names in one or more phonetic, graphic or other variants.

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