Collected Precedents of the S.C.A.: Flower


Name Precedents: Flower

Laurel: Date: (year.month.date) Precedent:
Jaelle of Armida 1999.05 [Felicia Heather of Newcastle] Heather is dated in Bardsley's Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames as a surname to 1633. (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR May 1999, p. 5)
Jaelle of Armida 1996.11 Please instruct the submitter that while we have no documentation for Lavender as a given name, the form [N] the Lavendere, should be registerable since Reaney & Wilson, under the heading. Lavender, have la Lavendere 1268. The byname is from Old French lavandiere 'one who washes, washerwoman, laundress'. (Jaelle of Armida, LoAR November 1996, p. 4)
Da'ud ibn Auda (2nd tenure, 2nd year) 1995.11 Laurel has not been shown to be period, but it is her modern given name. As a given name it is no more presumptuous than Rose, which we have registered many times (and as recently as 6/95): the names of Society orders are neither titles nor styles of address. (Talan Gwynek, LoAR November 1995, p. 10)
Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane 1989.03.26 "Heather" is a modern flower name which would be acceptable only if the submittor bore the name mundanely. This has been the case ever since 1983 when Wilhelm von Schlüssel specifically cited it as a post-period "flower name" in ruling against the use of "flower names". (LoAR 26 Mar 89, p. 19)
Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane 1987.04.26 [Genet] Two etymologies were given for the given name, neither of which is acceptable for period usage. [One] involves creation of a new "flower name" and such have long since been barred from Society usage. The alternative meaning ... is not, so far as we can determine, used in period as a given name. (LoAR 26 Apr 87, p. 11)
Wilhelm von Schlüssel 1980.09.16 You cannot use a Linnean name as part of a Society name. They are all out of period. WVS [25] [LoAR 16 Sep 80], p. 4
Karina of the Far West 1978.03.10 Lord Virgule objected to the plant name athelas as a personal name; "Basil" (royal) is also the name of a herb; "Oliver" and "Perry" mean olive- and pear-tree. (KFW, 10 Mar 78 [18], p. 1) [The name was allowed.]