{"id":322387,"date":"2025-12-18T07:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322387\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:21:07","slug":"babies-called-santa-elf-and-christmas-found-in-scotlands-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322387\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies called Santa, Elf and Christmas found in Scotland&#8217;s archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other festive babies were Santa Bianchi, a girl born in Glasgow in 1901 to her mother Lucia and father Pasqualo, who was an ice-cream dealer.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in the same city, four years earlier, was Advent Allan of Bridgeton who came into the world on 7 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another who made Christmas Day extra special was William Snow, a soldier who got hitched in Edinburgh on 25 December 1805.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not born in December but possibly with parents who loved yuletide, was Agnes Elf O&#8217;Brien from Peterhead, who came into the world in 1899 and Julia Tinsel who arrived at Logie in Perthshire in 1882.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Port Glasgow in 1873, which at the time was in the county of Renfrew, Angel Maria Lopez was born, named after his father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the aptly-named George Turkey lived in Rose Street in Edinburgh, according to the 1841 census.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other festive babies were Santa Bianchi, a girl born in Glasgow in 1901 to her mother Lucia and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-322387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}