Going down a rabbit-hole

@JudyEv (352633)

Rockingham, Australia

September 30, 2023 8:14pm CST

I mentioned Melbourne to Jeff (@moffittjc) then added ‘our’ Melbourne, meaning the capital of Victoria, Australia, as opposed to Melbourne, FloridaThan. So then I wondered if both cities got their names in the same way. Thanks to Google, I now know that Melbourne, Australia, was given its present name in 1837, and is named after the British prime minister, William Lamb, whose title was 2nd Viscount Melbourne of Kilmore. Melbourne, Florida, was originally known as Crane Creek but was changed to Melbourne in honour of the first postmaster of the city, Cornthwaite John Hector, a former resident of Melbourne, Australia. So there you go. Now I’m off to find out which ‘Victoria’ came first, and how the name was decided on. Have a great day.

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@snowy22315 (188970)

• United States

1 Oct 23

Always interesting what you find out when you research

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@snowy22315 (188970)

• United States

1 Oct 23

@JudyEv Maybe you could confidently participate in trivia like at a bar or restaurant...

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Oct 23

All this trivia might come in handy one day.

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@Treborika (17896)

• Mombasa, Kenya

1 Oct 23

That's very true indeed

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@GardenGerty (163362)

• United States

1 Oct 23

There is no end to the entertainment you can get researching random things.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Oct 23

That's so true. There is so much out there that I don't know! I don't know why that surprises me. lol

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@kareng (73558)

• United States

1 Oct 23

@JudyEv And so much left to learn! It is really amazing!

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@Treborika (17896)

• Mombasa, Kenya

1 Oct 23

Very wonderful indeed

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@AmbiePam (97883)

• United States

1 Oct 23

I should go look up why Miami, Oklahoma, and Miami, Florida, are not pronounced the same way.

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@AmbiePam (97883)

• United States

1 Oct 23

@JudyEv Miami is pronounced how you would think, MY-AM-E in Florida. In Oklahoma, it is pronounced MY-AM-UH.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Oct 23

@AmbiePam Thanks for that. Who'd have thought?

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Oct 23

I didn't know they weren't. So how is each pronounced?

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@jstory07 (143796)

• Roseburg, Oregon

1 Oct 23

Very interesting what you wrote.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Oct 23

Thanks. We have a lot of place names that are the same.

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@Dena91 (16925)

• United States

1 Oct 23

Interesting history of the two Melbourne's.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Oct 23

The postmaster must have been someone a bit special back then.

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@RubyHawk (99397)

• Atlanta, Georgia

1 Oct 23

That’s interesting information. There is a connection to Australia.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

1 Oct 23

I was a bit surprised to find 'our' Melbourne came first.

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@RubyHawk (99397)

• Atlanta, Georgia

2 Oct 23

@JudyEv It is kind of amazing.

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@kareng (73558)

• United States

1 Oct 23

Interesting!! And you are right, never know when you may need that info!! Perhaps if you were on a game show, it could be a question that would pop up!

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@kareng (73558)

• United States

2 Oct 23

@JudyEv Trivia is fun!!

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

Thanks to myLot, I'm amassing more and more trivia!

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@Treborika (17896)

• Mombasa, Kenya

1 Oct 23

You can imagine that

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@allknowing (145144)

• India

2 Oct 23

We have those confusions here as well specially while searching for something I will be searching in the wrong place.

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@allknowing (145144)

• India

2 Oct 23

@JudyEv It takes me to North India (lol)

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

Often I've searched for something without putting 'Australia' on the end and nearly always it takes me to somewhere in the USA.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

@rebelann (113904)

• El Paso, Texas

1 Oct 23

I wonder if the Victoria in Canada would precede that of Australia.

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@rebelann (113904)

• El Paso, Texas

2 Oct 23

1943? I thought it was established in the 1800s.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

It seems settlement in Victoria, Canada, began in 1943 and was named for Queen Victoria.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Oct 23

@rebelann Sorry, typo. It should have read 1843.

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@RebeccasFarm (94538)

• Arvada, Colorado

2 Oct 23

It is so wonderful that we can find anything we want to know Judy.

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@RebeccasFarm (94538)

• Arvada, Colorado

3 Oct 23

@JudyEv Welcome..I should get a set and read it all.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

I wonder if they have stopped printing encyclopaedias yet. Very few would need them surely.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Oct 23

@RebeccasFarm Thanks for that. Another bit of interesting trivia.

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@LadyDuck (473770)

• Switzerland

1 Oct 23

So finally Melbourne in Florida got its name from Melbourne Australia. I am always curious how things started.

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@LadyDuck (473770)

• Switzerland

2 Oct 23

@JudyEv I do not believe that Italy has cities that got their names from our previous Kings or Queens (Italy was a kingdom until 2 June 1946). We have many names of cities from Saints.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

@LadyDuck Ireland seems to have duplicate names for towns but perhaps I'm imagining that.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

We have Victoria state but no town of that name. There are 22 Victoria's in the US but I think they are all towns.

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@LindaOHio (187979)

• United States

1 Oct 23

Interesting that we have a link from Australia to the US. Have a great day.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

I'm really surprised that the Australian connection came first.

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@dgobucks226 (36490)

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15 Oct 23

Seems many cities are named after prestigious, political or prominent people in their towns.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

16 Oct 23

Yes, that's very true. Also, our colonists missed their England, etc and named lots of places after their favourite places.

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@dgobucks226 (36490)

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17 Oct 23

@JudyEv Yes, makes sense!

We had many towns/counties during U.S. colonial times were named for English royalty.

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@Beestring (15324)

• Hong Kong

1 Oct 23

That's interesting to know.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

I like knowing how towns got their names.

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@changjiangzhibin89 (16914)

• China

9 Oct 23

I have never known there are two cities called Melbourne.It is said that the Melbourne in America was originally called Middleton.

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@changjiangzhibin89 (16914)

• China

10 Oct 23

@JudyEv You are welcome ! I haven't known of two cities here that have the same name .Maybe it is due to Chinese characters being different from alphabetic writing.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

10 Oct 23

Thanks for that information. I didn't know that. Are there towns in China that have the same name? As it's such a huge country, I can imagine some names would turn up twice.

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@Aquitaine24 (11858)

• San Jose, California

1 Oct 23

Have you ever been to the Florida Melbiourne?

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

No, I haven't been to the USA at all. I got excited the first time I saw 'Melbourne' after a person's name but then realised it also said Florida after.

@RasmaSandra (84651)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

2 Oct 23

Thank you for the interesting information, I hope you have a great start to the new week,

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

Thanks for the good wishes. We're having a spell of nasty weather but it should clear up in a day or two.

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@moffittjc (124131)

• Gainesville, Florida

2 Oct 23

So, then, it’s nice to see that our Melbourne has direct ties to your Melbourne!

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

True but the tie is a bit different to what I expected.

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@Shiva49 (27167)

• Singapore

1 Oct 23

That reminds me of - "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Nice to know there is history behind city/place names too mainly to honor a well-known personality from there.

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

In Australia, we have many places named after British royalty and dignitaries which is understandable given our beginnings.

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@Treborika (17896)

• Mombasa, Kenya

1 Oct 23

Thanks for the update my friend. I didn't know all this

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@JudyEv (352633)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Oct 23

Some towns get their names in unusual ways but others are simply named after influential people.