Mr Patrick Russell

Significance of Daughter's name and birth time<br /> </p><br /> <p>Before my daughter's birth, my wife and I had chosen to call her Lucy. Quite simply, it was a name we liked , there was no significance in it, other than that. When she was about two weeks old, I idly picked up a paperback that we had bought some months earlier entitled: "Boys and Girls Names". I remarked to my wife that I had actually never looked up Lucy, so I did. The entry went something like: "Lucy, from the Latin Lucia, meaning the Bringer of Light. In Roman times this was a name commonly given to children who were born at the break of day." My wife remarked that it was about dawn when our daughter was born, so I went upstairs to a file that I had begun for Lucy which contained various momentos of her pregnancy and birth, including a copy of The Times newspaper, that I bought on the morning she was born. I looked up the time of sunrise on that day (July 27th, 1983) - it was 0516 - which was the exact time of her birth.