Samuelina

See also: Samúelína

English

Etymology

From Samuel +‎ -ina.

Proper noun

Samuelina

1. A female given name of rare usage.
   • 1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XVI, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume II, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 137:

     And off she sprang with the agility of a forest doe, so very unlike the polished lady of the manor, full of grace and gentility, but yet so truly in character with Samuelina, the farmer’s daughter.

   • 1819 June, “Register.—Deaths.”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany; a New Series of the Scots Magazine, volume IV, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, page 587, column 2:

     At Grange, Burntisland, aged eight years, Samuelina Paterson, youngest daughter of the Rev. Robert Culbertson, Leith.

   • 1860, James W[illia]m Bowles, The World’s Fifth Empire, and Other Poems, Louisville, Ky.: John P. Morton & Co., […], page viii:

     To Miss Mercy Elizabeth Samuelina Snagwallader

   • 1878 June 13, “Breakfast Yarns”, in Thomas Hake, Arthur Compton-Rickett, The Life and Letters of Theodore Watts-Dunto, volume II, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, Limited; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, published 1916, page 295:

     Letter No. 1 was from her first-floor lodger, Miss Samuelina Johnson, and ran thus:—[…]

   • 1908, Sessional Papers, volume 27, page 28:

     M‘Caughey, Samuelina Jane, elected 1907.

   • 1947, The London Gazette, volume 4, page 6309:

     Parker, Annie Samuelina.

   • 1984, Fayrene Preston, For the Love of Sami, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 171:

     “My friends, I would like you to meet Miss Samuelina Adkinson.”

   • 1981, Donald Farquhar Macleod Macdonald, editor, Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, volume X (Ministers of the Church from 1 January 1955 to 31 December 1975), Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, →ISBN, page 200, column 1:

     M 4 Aug 1951 Betsy Lyall Innes, b 5 Feb 1927, d of John Gilmour I. and Samuelina Wallace Craig.

   • 2015, Tukufu Zuberi, African Independence: How Africa Shapes the World, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page xiii:

     With the ACAP and INDEPTH teams in Accra, Ghana, left to right, are Mr. Pali Lehohla, Dr. Alioune Diagne, Mr. Timothy Cheney, Ms. Samuelina Arthur, Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Dr. Ayaga Bawah, Dr. Cheikh Mbacke, Dr. Martin Bangha, Dr. Philomena Nyarko, Mr. Somnath Sambhudas, Ms. Jeannette Quarcoopome, and Dr. Osman Sankoh, 2011.