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Merry Christmas? No. Mary Christmas!

24 décembre 2007, 20:00

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Merry Christmas to you, Mary Christmas. That?s what the former Mary Young is hearing this holiday season, after she married Brian Christmas earlier this year.

?It was meant to be,? Mary Christmas told the Daily Herald. ?God has a sense of humour. What are the chances that it would ever happen?? She has found, however, that she is not alone. Mary Christmas has been working at Ancestry.com for three years and discovered there are as many as 100 other Mary Christmases in the United States.

The last name of Christmas has its origins in Wales, she said.

?It was given to people that were born on Christmas Day,? she said. ?Somewhere back there someone of my husband?s ancestors was born on Christmas. It is not a super common name.?

Her husband, Brian, says the best part of her name is that he has Mary Christmas all year long, not just in December...

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