strange names

Maridadi sana

Swahili -

maridadi (noun) - smartness

maridadi (adjective) - stylish, modern, elegant

sana (adverb) - very, very much, extremely, a great deal

sana (verb) - forge (metal)

Carefull

Carefull is an extremely rare surname with only perhaps a few dozen people using it, all of whom are related. The family traces its history to the Isle of Man where an English family of that name arrived in approximately 1511 and their name was quickly translated to Manx Gaelic as Caralagh.

Around the middle of the 18th Century one family Richard Caralagh and his wife Jane (nee Key) changed their name back to Carefull. I have no idea why, but it may have been in preparation for a move back to England and in 1798 James Carefull possibly Richard's son, my four greats grandfather, married Mary Maguire in Liverpool.

For some time after that the family can be traced living in the Liverpool and Cheshire area although they are more scattered now I believe. I was brought up in Kenya and now live in the South East of England.