{"id":6631,"date":"2018-02-17T15:47:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T20:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:31:39","slug":"my-favorite-ancestral-name-is-ruhama-52-ancestors-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogygals.com\/blog\/my-favorite-ancestral-name-is-ruhama-52-ancestors-6\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Ancestral Name is Ruhama – 52 Ancestors #6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although I would not have said that Ruhama is my favorite ancestral name, it turns out that I use it for various pseudonyms and handles and have done so for a long time.\u00a0 So I guess it is my favorite!\u00a0 It isn\u2019t that there is a particular and single ancestor who had the name that is a favorite, I just like the name.<\/p>\n

A little online research has shown me that Ruhama is a not-too common name and derives from the Hebrew name Ruhamah.\u00a0 There is still a kibbutz in the Negev desert named Ruhama.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t found any information about how the name came to the United States or started being used, but I would guess that it was first a name used by religious families, as many of the early comers were.<\/p>\n

I actually have known (or at least met) two of my relatives who had the name:\u00a0 my great aunt Susan Ruhama Salt Liverett and my second cousin twice removed, Ruhama Brown Fagley.\u00a0 Aunt Susan, who I have written elsewhere about, was a grandmother-proxy.\u00a0 Ruhama Fagley was a correspondent of my parents and provided a lot of family history which was an interest of hers.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The first woman of the name in my family tree so far is Ruhama Ingersoll who was born in 1755 in Connecticut.\u00a0 She is my 5th great grandmother and I have not tracked the family back beyond her yet.\u00a0 She named her first daughter Elizabeth Ruhama.\u00a0 My 4g grandmother Elizabeth Ruhama named one of her first daughters Ruhama who was my third great grandmother.\u00a0 And there my direct ancestral line of Ruhamas ends.<\/p>\n

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Ruhama Justice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My 3g grandmother Ruhama Blackman Justice
\ndid not pass along the name Ruhama until her last daughter, and that daughter did not live a full year.\u00a0 My 2g grandmother, Ann Justice, only had one daughter who did not live to adulthood and was not named Ruhama.\u00a0 Her son John Clifford Salt however, named his second daughter Susan Ruhama.<\/p>\n

Two other children of Ruhama Blackman Justice passed the name Ruhama along to the next generation as well giving us Mary Ruhama (\u201cRuie\u201d) Ely and Ruhama Bell Justice. Ruie Ely Brown passed the name to her younger daughter and youngest child, Ruhama Brown Fagley.\u00a0 Ruhama Fagley had only one son and the name did not get passed on in her family.\u00a0 Ruhama Bell had two sons and as far as I know neither of them passed the name along.\u00a0 So the name seems to have run its course in my families.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry to see it end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although I would not have said that Ruhama is my favorite ancestral name, it turns out that I use it for various pseudonyms and handles and have done so for a long time.\u00a0 So I guess it is my favorite!\u00a0 …<\/p>\n

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