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Again not one of mine
Careless Clapham
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There was Zeno on my family tree. He had two sisters called Lucretia and Albinia! The family were an English family with no foreign ancestry, but I've certainly never heard anyone else in England called those names before!
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Hello ballgarside - These sound like circus people - were they? Perhaps you can tell us more about them - where they lived - occupations. Thanks.......
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The name I love the most is ... Angel Dore Veater
But the funniest of all ... Tom Shirt - OK not that funny until you know the story. There is a little hamlet in Derbyshire between Chapel-en-le-Frith & Chinley called "The Wash" and Tom is buried there hence ...
T.Shirt dyed in the Wash 8) :D ;D ;D
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Theophilus Rivers and Paramus Webb.
Also have seen an Onesiphous Flack along the way.
Am gonna call my kids these! (only kidding!)
Caz
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In response to your post Emmeline, Zeno, Albinia and co were not circus people as far as I know. Their father was William Blake, a farmer and later a publican from Buckinghamshire. William had several children by his first marriage to Elizabeth who all had normal names. Then he married Penelope Ginger (whose family farmed at the hamlet of Little Hampden back to Elizabethan times). William and Penelope's first children were Laura, William and Ada, normal enough. Then they started losing the plot a bit with Lucretia, Albinia and Zeno. Perhaps William had so many children that he ran out of normal names. However, although William's father was Nathaniel Russell Blake from Buckinghamshire, his mother was not named on the parish register. Perhaps she was foreign or maybe she was in the circus. I would be interested to know the origins of these names if anyone knows them.
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Hi
My Grandmother is called Albina, originally she is from Lithuania.
As far as i'm aware, it come from 'Albus' meaning white.
acceber
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Lucretia comes from a Roman family name, and Zeno is a Greek name, meaning "stranger"!
Rambler
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Sounds like the names are of foreign origin. However, I wonder what context they were used in the 19th century in Britain. Maybe gypsy families called their children names like this. Or maybe William Blake wanted a change from the norm and decided on some unusual names for his later children.
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Many thanks ballgarside for your reply. I do love all these stories - even when they are not my own.
It would be interesting to know why they suddenly decided on more fancy names.
With a name like his own perhaps William was of a literary nature and did a lot of reading - hence the change to something more exotic !
Hope you enjoy Rootschat as much as I do..........
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I ran into this forename recently:
"Queenie Elizabeth R." The person was born in late 19th or early 20th C., long before the present monarch, so they must have been thinking about Eliz I.
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I had a friend whose mother and aunts were all named after flowers - Rose, Violet, Lily etc. That was quite common but I had a little chuckle when I spotted this lady in the GRO birth index
Attwell, Lily of the Valley
Do you think she signed things LOTV Attwell and did she ever use her 2nd name etc?
Jud
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Most of the uncommon names in my tree turn out to be the mother's maiden name. While it shouldn't have been too bad for Mr Harwood Angus or Mr Robinson Ridley, I do have to feel a bit sorry for these poor little boys: Chipchase Watson, Major Walter Watkins and Colonel Jubilee Watkins.
Wotty.
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Ooo, these have made me laugh!
The only uncommon name I have is Baden. I came across a Bartholemew (sp?) Burrows which made me chuckle, but he turned out not to be an ancestor.
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I have a comfort fellows she was my gt gt aunt, and a Theophilus Leadbeater he was my grandfather.
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I had a friend whose mother and aunts were all named after flowers - Rose, Violet, Lily etc. That was quite common but I had a little chuckle when I spotted this lady in the GRO birth index
Attwell, Lily of the Valley
Do you think she signed things LOTV Attwell and did she ever use her 2nd name etc?
Jud
I have a rellie like that as well - there's Daisy, Lily, Violet, Rose, and I forget the other one - 5 altogether, I believe. Does the ladies' maiden surname start with SKA... by any chance? If so, please PM me!
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I found an Ms Beer Batter (mistranscribed I think as image looked more like Batten) on my journeys the other day - must write them down in future.
Anna x
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My fave family name is Fanny Figg! That was her married name - she was a Perks before that.
Anna x
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I found a Fanny Gay on one of the censuses, but she's nothing to do with me.
My sons (who are going through a phase again) thought that one was absolutely hilarious.
Wotty.
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My great grandmother was called Arabella.
Ryan....your ancestors were sure fond of biblical names!!
Mary.
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One of my ancestors was called Seraphis, after the ship on which he was born :)
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I have a Riverina Simpson, named after the Riverina district of NSW, Australia.
Margaret
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Not a relative but I had a letter from a lady whose married name (and I kid you not) was Gay Love.
Caz
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If it's flowers you're after, then my not-too-distant cousins named their children:
Ivy
Olive Branch (honest!)
Laurel
Pansy Daisy
Hazel Violet
Daisy
George
Poor George!
meles
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One of the most uncommon names I've got in my tree is of the Savin family of Kent. There were only 61 of them in the county in 1901.
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I have just had a small break threw in the tree and found a relative called Golden Jeffels, I wondered if Golden is the correct name or nickname, but this is how he is listed, made me smile :D wonder where silver is?
Jane
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I suspect this is quite common ???, but doing some research for a friend and one of his familys had a Faith, Hope and Charity. Mind there were at least 13 children so I suppose mam and dad were clever to pick a theme! ;D
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Not as exciting as some, but can anyone tell me why a girl baptised Frances would be known as Tassie?
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How about Horn Appleyard?
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Haven't got too many weird names, the most unusual being Thirza Merhalia Loveridge (yep, Romany). It came in handy when I found two Thirza Merhalia's on the same branch of the tree. This being Tasmania in the 1830's, when the population was about, oh, 15, I thought the chances of two Thirza Merhalia's was pretty remote. So I did some more digging, and discovered that it was one and the same person - after her first husband died, Thirza married her daughter's husband's uncle. If any one can tell me what relation that makes her to her own daughter, I'd love to know! I suppose step-aunt-in-law?
Thirza had an older sister called Bartha (and definitely not Bertha). It was the maternal grandmother who was the Romany, but she was boring old Mary, and Thirza's mother was Charlotte.
As for someone getting named after a winner at that day's races - my Aunt's sister Johanna was named after the family's horse. Father came home from the pub to find he had another daughter and insisted on it. So there was a Johanna in the house and another one in the paddock. ;D
Kez :)
ETA: My name is Kerryn - which is from Kerenhappuch, which has been mentioned a few times on here. I knew it was from one of Job's daughters, but I had no idea I was one of the most beautiful in the land ;) ;) ;)
I also have a Tamar in the tree, and I was always told that it was after a river in Tasmania, but as that branch have no links to Tassie and are 100% Cornish, I now know the truth!! Thanks for that :)
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I have found a few with the first name of Christmas
Subee x
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My most unusual names are my sister Mirus and my dads name Ray Flavelle Moss
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A great grandmother (step) with a maiden name of Buchanan-Sproat
Two siters born arround 1880's Morfudd and Buddug Davies
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Hi
I have an Otmar Eugene in my tree.
cookie
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Hi
What about this one...Hilda Hairline.
Though not a relative but just came across it while doing some research.
cookie
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I've got the Cock&Bull ::)
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It's a draw between Hamutal and Altezera (both females). I know Hamutal is found in the Bible but as for Altezera (and it's many variations!).....no idea.
Nanny Jan
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Lemmey ;D mind you she was also known as Jane
Could be so there was no confusion with her sister Leman (at least I think its Leman)
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I have Marzolf, who I love for not being William or John. And who has also made my life easier, as I haven't come across this as a first name for anyone else yet.
And I have a Dorcas, which no one believes. :-\ Not very common here in the States I guess.
Kath
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Ormuz May Lane
My grt aunt I never knew I had until I started my family tree
Elizabeth
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And I have a Dorcas, which no one believes. :-\
I'd believe...I've got quite a few Dorcas in my tree. All Norwoods, strangely. Must have been a family name...
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And I have a Dorcas, which no one believes. :-\
I'd believe...I've got quite a few Dorcas in my tree. All Norwoods, strangely. Must have been a family name...
After finding my Dorcas (Micklewright), I did find some other families that used the name, so it wasn't completely uncommon (not like my Marzolf) but it is a name I had never heard before. Quite a different connotation in the United States in the 20th and 21st century. I do wonder if she didn't like her name either. I found her in a couple census as Ann, which was her middle name.
Kath
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1) Friend Harry West.
2) Cleatus Winifred Flint - given her father's name because he had recently died in a boating accident.
3) Fitzgerald William Guladso West - which is actually an anagram of the real father's name. When spoken the two middle names are meant to sound like William Gladstone, therefore you think he has been named after the famous Victorian politician, who died in 1899 - the same year Fitz was born.
downside
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Although I cannot claim the name in my family tree, whilst researching I stumbled over: Nonus Et Undecimus HIERN.
I guess his parents were Latin freaks.
spike
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Not as exciting as some, but can anyone tell me why a girl baptised Frances would be known as Tassie?
Probably a young sibling attempting to pronounce Frances - I have a friend called Elizabeth who was "christened" Dida by her sister.
Regards, Bill
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The most uncommon surname in my wife's family was SPARNON - very few in the phone book! It would seem that everyone with that name is related, all descended from a family of Cornish copper miners - apparently started by an Abbott Sparnon in the 14th century!
The most unusual name in my family, after a run of about 7 Williams, is Birket (various different spellings in different records). The only clue I can find is the local vicar (some time after my ancestor's birth in the late 1600s) was a Revd Mr Burkett.
Regards, Bill
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For the truly exotic................................
;D ;D ;D BARZILAI (man of iron) JONES ;D ;D ;D
Made a change from John, David, Jane and Mary.
Cheers Dave
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The surname "COMMON" is not very common, but when doing a search for it, I get lots of hits, but mainly to topics like this, where common is written frequently :D
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The most uncommon christian name I have in my ancestry so far is Angel (Male)
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One of the characters in Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is called Angel. It always struck me as an odd choice for a man.
Monica
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I suppose "Angel" sounds odd in English, because it's never been used much, but the equivalent "Angelo" is fairly common in Italian. And yet we happily call girls "Angela".
Rambler
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The " Angel" is my family was of Jewish descent, evidently it is the Anglicanization of the Hebrew name Anshel.
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That's interesting - I guess it's a "sound-alike", rather than a translation?
My faithful names book says Angel and Angela were both used in the 17th century, but were then banned by the Puritans, along with Michael, Raphael and Gabriel. Angela was resurrected in the 19th century, but Angel was hardly ever used again.
Probably not an easy name to live with!
Rambler
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In our tree we have an gentleman who was named Fergus O'connor Wood on his birth cert'. on later cert's we have him as Fergus O'connor Squire Wood, and then finaly he ended up calling himself Prince Edward Squire O'connor Wood. On his death cert' he was just Fergus Wood.He died in the workhouse, and on his death cert' it says he died with Abcess of the brain. I wonder if this had affected all his life.
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He obvioulsy had delusions of granduer ;D ;D ;D
Sorry I just couldent resist that. ;)
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My grandfather's first name was Hilvardt. When I do a google search I only find posts that were made by either myself or my cousin.
My other grandfather's name was Garfield, much to the amusement of my children. They ask if he was Garfield the cat :-\
BrendaM
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Neither of the following is in my own ancestry but they make good additions to the subject being discussed.
If one can include names that are not Anglo-Saxon in origin the following birth in the March Quarter 1980 in Lambeth was impressive.
Augustina Abena-owusuan Frimpong
And the following birth may qualify the owner as having the greatest number of initials. It occurred in the March Quarter 1920 in Gloucester.
BARNES, Penelope I. L. D. W. G.
Mother’s maiden name Miller
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Most unusual in my tree is Beaufoy which is rare and seems to have been used as male or female. I've not been able to find anything on the name meaning or origin. Beaufoy was one of my Grt Grt Grt Grandmothers but with some great research from Rootschatters and a contact on GR I now have 4 Beaufoys in my Tree!!
We also had a family friend who was one of those 'unrelated' Aunties we all have named Boadicea, so named as her father was on the HMS Boadicea when she was born! Imagine being stuck with that all your life, she was more commonly known as Bodie ;D
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I've got a Hamutal (female) and a Marmaduke; also several surnames used as second names.....Ottley, Rayner, Henman,Long.
Nanny Jan
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Beaufoy
Beau = good, (handsome etc)
Foy = foi = faith
hth
Arranroots ;)
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Beaufoy
Beau = good, (handsome etc)
Foy = foi = faith
hth
Arranroots ;)
Thanks Arranroots, Why didn't I think of that ::)
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My kids ancestor was called Patientius and his son was named St Andrew
Liz
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When searching for my Cowards in Dorset I found these Coward christian names, Keddella, Hiddella and Albinus. Whilst looking for them and not part of my family I found an Ida Shave!
Magrat
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Hi,
Not a funny one, but my Great Great Grandmothers maiden name was MALIGUE, she was born in Ireland and I cannot find anyone else of the same surname ???
Cindy xx
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I have twins Noah and Pharoah - not many biblical names rhyme.
My mother had a middle name Burch which was an old family surname and going back far enough I found a silver. A worthy addition to any family tree.
Anne
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Here are few from mine
Mungo Chase
Septimus Osmotherley
Handel Sparks
Sunday Guy
I have come across………….
Julius Caesar
Wellington Waterloo Willoughby
Fanny Burns
I was searching the census’ the other day and thought I had found:
Adolf Hitler who’s occupation was Fuhrer. A much magnified closer inspection revealed him as Albert Hiller occupation Furrier, gave me laugh anyway.
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Hello
My grt grt grt grt uncle's son: Wallington Wookey?!
acceber
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I bet that gave you a shock Tom :) it would me. :o
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We have the Christian name Wardrobe, and I've seen it elsewhere once, and I did know a girl called Theresa Green in Doncaster in the 50s.
Rossolad
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The mind boggles at Wardrobe :o makes you wonder where they were conceived. ;D
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Hadn't thought of that! Does make you think though. ;)
Rossolad
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Someone I know has the forename Leicester, because that is where he was conceived, he is just glad his parents didnt stay in Ramsbottom.
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Or near where I live in Kent Pratts Bottom ;D ;D ;D
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I have ancestors with the surname Barginall which seems uncommon to me. The funny thing is that one of them married a Smith!
My husbands family have a few like, Hayhoe and Snowball and Voller. His great great grandmother's name was Minnie Scales, although it may not be uncommon, I think it's sweet.
Mary
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Philadelphia - born 1758, Rudgewick ......
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I once taught a child with the given name of JD - yes just the capital letters JD . The letters did not stand for other names. Always wondered how he would feel about it as he grew up.....dee
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The most unusual names in my family are Slaney Ann (2 of them) and Kesannah
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I had a young apprentice many years ago whose surname began with a "D"; her parents christened her Valerie! :o
Bill
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How about Kattelena Antivaccinator WEST, b. Medway second quarter 1875?
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Antivaccinator? Obviously a family against vaccination for smallpox or something. ::) Poor child! .....dee
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Uncommon christian names I have found in my family are:
Boys:
Flowers
Valentine
Field
French
Girls:
Keziah
Clemintine
And of course my three children have uncommon names:
Bromley Victoria Molly
Declan Montgomery Joseph
Uriah Malachy Ainsley
Well not all there names are uncommon but some are
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Funniest name I have seen is:
Katz Meeouw
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:o :-\ :)
Slightly off track -but my mother was going to call me Somerset Cinnamon Shaw !
She said she knew that i would have auburn hair ! :-\
My married name is Sillence - imagine if i'd have been Somersert Cinnamon Sillence, try saying that with false teeth! ;D
As you can see by the grin i don't have false teeth - yet !
DJ
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A neighbour of mine had 3 boys, Wolf, Magnuss and Lierfrick
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My Dad used to talk about a relative called Cassidy Cow or would it be Cowe
I wonder if there was a person if so they would come from the Scottish side of the family
Anyone know of such a name could be Fraserbough
Elizabeth ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Boys.
Pest ::) ::)
Nuisance ::) ::)
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My gran and her sisters' names are not particularly unusual when taken by themselves, but when listed, makes my great granparents look obsessive (or unimaginative) -
Ivy
Daisy
Pansy
Laurel
Rose
Hazel
May, and my gran
Nellie (huh?)
meles
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She ran out of flowers she liked Meles :) :) :)
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That's it, Patrish! I'd hate to think I'd inherited unimaginative genes! ;)
meles
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It was Maddock PUGH (it seemed surprisingly modern for a man both in 1808) then I discovered a succession of chaps called Bransom HAGGIS.
Apparently the name comes from the word haghaus which meant wood shed and the first HAGGISs or (should that be HAGGI ;D ) were most likely to have been wood-cutters.
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Just found a Yaccabina/Yackabina - female forename - anyone any ideas of origin, can't seem to find another anywhere
Barbara
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Could it be a form of Jacobina, the female version of Jacob?
Kate
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Could be..........hadn't thought of that!
:-[
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Sounds like a Hebrew name to me. maybe they were Jewish ???
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Not on mother's side, Claridge family from Hunningham, Warwickshire, all other family names very ordinary, must look into father's side, Southgate from Suffolk
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"Could be..........hadn't thought of that!"
It only occurred to me because I have a son called Jacob.
Kate
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Dutch or Danish maybe, certainly sounds Eastern European, Jacob is usually Yacob. ???
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Me again :) If they don't seem to be Jewish, is it possible they were Baptists? I have a branch who were and some of them have biblical names.
Kate
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Her middle name was Ethel, sadly died aged 15, 'an imbecile from childhood' according to 1901 census
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Thats a shame because you cant take it any further then.
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Well, going backwards, have gone well back with Claridges, no odd names, and just looking now at Southgates 1851, none there either so far, nothing very biblical-sounding and no Jacobs in the family...yet :-\
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I have generations of Salathiel's which I believe is Biblical then a family also with very Biblical names Ezekiel Tabitha Delila and MANOAH but my favorite gt gt aunt is "Alice Fanny Minnie" I'm ashamed to confess that laughed out loud in Oxford record Office when I found that one
Trees
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I have three generations using the middle name of Ferinda, two with the middle name Manship but they were Mariners.
Ambers
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That figures doesn't it. ;D
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Hi Patrish,
I couldn't believe it at first :o until I saw another rellie with a middle name of Captain. ::) It confused the transcriber though ..one put Manchip? on another record, illegible but it was obviously Manship.
I still can't fathom out Ferinda though, and so far haven't seen it used in any other family.......any ideas anyone?
Ambers
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I found today in my tree
Doctor Hoyle
Definitely not a doctor
Bob
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My dear hubby's Nanna was Ocea as was one of her grand daughters - came from a sea-faring family.
On my side, funniest name I came across was the sailor who was witness on my great Grandmother's mge cert - which turned out to be a bigamist mge but she was innocent party - His name? Sydney Harbour.
I burst out laughing in the library when I found it!
:)
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He must have been born there ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Not one of mine, but the licensee of the Napier Tavern in Beach Street, Deal, in the 1850s was one Onesiphorous Sneller.
Bill
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Come on Bill that must have been his nick name
Elizabeth
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Just looking at Scott surname in Leeds, Dewsbury areas and found -
Kerrenhappuch Scott - wife - born Whitley - but not your usual Yorkshire name, ........... or is it? Think it may be biblical, one of the 3 daughters of Job - (yes, I looked that up)
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Was he a publican too, Gadget? One sip and ....... :D
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Apparently it's another biblical name Elizabeth.
The scriptural name of Onesiphorous was given to the sixth son of Israel and Millie Long. He was called Owan for a shorter name.
Found this on the Edinburgh University site Gadget:
Onesiphorous Tyndall-Bruce
1790 - 1855
English barrister who became, through marriage, a noted figure in the history of Falkland. Born Onesiphorous Tyndall in Bristol, his family had been merchants and slave-traders who had opened Bristol's first bank in 1750. Tyndall-Bruce was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. After marrying heiress Margaret Stuart Hamilton Bruce in 1828, he became Hereditary Keeper of Falkland Palace. He was also permitted, by Royal licence, to add the name 'Bruce' after his own. Tyndall-Bruce was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1831.
He died at his home, the House of Falkland, and lies buried beside the parish church, which he built. He also constructed the Bruce Fountain in Falkland is commemorated by a large statue in the village.
Bill
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G Grandmother Minnie Denial. My husband wants to open a pie shop and call it "Minnie Denial's Famous Pies". Dont know if she could actually cook, thought.LOLOL ;D
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I have some Thing and even a few Doomesday in my tree but they are way back and the details on them are few and far between.
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G Grandmother Minnie Denial. My husband wants to open a pie shop and call it "Minnie Denial's Famous Pies". Dont know if she could actually cook, thought.LOLOL ;D
Its better than the name I see every fortnight Pukka pies
My friend next to me said this and for one moment I thought she had said something else as I looked at her funny she said there and pointed to the advert PUKKA PIES
Elizabeth
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I've found a couple of forenames that I haven't seen before Cleave, Alpha (male) Melanethan who also called himself George in a couple of census and Beddelia (female). :)
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The most uncommon/unusual name I've come across was for a Mr. John Smith, who's one feature stopping him from having an incredibly common name that would no doubt cause endless hours of headaches was his middle name...Marklew. There's only 31 instances of the name Marklew in the FreeBMD birth index...all of them middle names (both male and female). I'm guessing it must be a surname that's been carried down the line.
I'm come across the name Alpha also...with a Mr. George Alpha Twyman in Birchington (I think it was) in Kent. Seems rather unusual.
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I've got a Sebry Phillips born 1845.
I think this may be Irish.
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I don't think it's that unusual but I love the forename 'Enough' - especially when it's child no. 15 :o
Barbara
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On my side - Euphemia BEVERIDGE
On hubby's side - Everell Holtrum PEPPER
(our kids are glad we opted to call them Rachel and Andrew!) ;D
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I like that middle name Holtrum...nice strong name.
Came across one just yesterday I thought was unusual. Goodhoe Twyman (a male).
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My g-g-grandfather was named Ozro Riley. I don't know where the name Ozro comes from but, to my surprise, there were other Ozro Rileys.
These names aren't mine but I like them:
William Muchmore
Herbert William John Humble
Jemima Inward
Crispianus Burrows
Regent Stride
Lottie London
Ernest English
My all-time favourites:
Africa Bastard
Spiro Borg
Regards,
Josephine
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I have a Sibary Wheatcroft in the family, his parents obviously thought that he needed a name that made him different as his surname was SMITH!!! All his siblings had slightly different forenames, his brother was called Richard Mallison. I discovered that they are surnames of gg.grandparents.
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The christian name Verva (girl) shows up several times in my tree. Anyone have ideas about its origins?
Keesa
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My 4G GM was Fanny PAINE :o
I also have a Persis (girl), Walscourt (2G GF, and doesn't appear to be a family name, unless it was an unknown & unacknowledged father ;) ) and a Gt uncle called Obiethio.
Years ago there used to be a sign as you drove through Bridgetown in WA "Armstrong & Cuttmore - Blacksmiths and Welders" :D
Jane
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How about Jabez and Nehemiah
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I've come across Jabez in my family, and Phineas, but the most unusual is probably Birket.
Bill
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Thats spooky I have just posted a notice querying a possible name of Jabez ;D ;D
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I've just been helping with a friend's family tree, and found a Longbottom family, the parents had 10 daughters in the 1840s, the first 7 were called very normal names eg Ann, Mary - but the last 3 were Florilla, Sabrina and Angelina. Thinking this might have caused a bit of a stir in the neighbourhood, (Leeds) although Florilla was indeed a one-off, searching through various census I was surprised to find lots more Sabrinas and Angelinas to choose from !!
Barbara
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My dad's eldest sister was called Veve (Vev, Vieve) I don't ever remember seeing it written down. Her mother was born in Canada, so I think it is French-Canadian, and may be a short form of Genevieve, although my aunt's name was definitely registered as Vev (sic)
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I've also seen the name Geneva.
Regards,
Josephine
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Jebez means 'born in pain'
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St John Lucky Sly Austin. one of my great (not sure how many greats) uncles. I think his father was drunk? Someone told me that Lucky Sly was a brand of tobacco?
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hi all,
as well as having numerous fanny's in my tree, i also have 3 ellen beggs jamieson kennaway's all born within 5yrs of each other! ??? but by far the most stangest name in my tree is strick (female) born in 1751 - poor child
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Regarding the repeating of names - I have umpteen Joseph Edward Beattie's in my tree! Most of them appear in one generation, as several of fifteen (!) siblings called their offspring this name in honour of their grandfather.
The weird thing was that all of the JEB's in that generation died in their 40's (or earlier)!
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Not a relative, but in looking through today's paper, there was a photo and caption of ... Randy Winks.
The poor man!
Sandra
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While at the archives looking up family marriages last week I found a witness that appeared to be called Barzillea Lambert.
As it was a "latinized" entry, and convinced it couldn't really be that, I even copied it down in as close to the original handwriting as I could manage to try and work it out later.
Noting that the marriage was in 1880 I decided to see if what happened if I tried just the first name on the 1881 census and discovered about a hundred Barzilleas including some variants of that spelling. Having found him and his family, I tried my witness in Familysearch and then discovered he had married a sister of the relative whose marriage I was looking up, so he is indeed related to me.
Has anyone else got a Barzillea/Barzillia/Barzillai and does anyone know where the name comes from?
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I came across this one looking for a tree and found:
SHERWOOD FOREST
Christening: 07 FEB 1856 Saint Peter, Liverpool
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Has anyone else got a Barzillea/Barzillia/Barzillai and does anyone know where the name comes from?
Barzillai is a name from the Old Testament which means "iron" or strong" in Hebrew.
http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/barzillai.html
Rambler
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Whilst researching for someone else came across:
Banistre Banistre who later had a decendent:
Banister Banister.
Margaret
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Also the name Kerenhappuch, as a first name.
Margaret
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I have a fellow in my tree by the name of BOWLES JORDAN - born 1771 and registered at Dr.Williams Library in London.
I wonder if the Duchess of Cornwall could tell me more about him - one never knows.........
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Also the name Kerenhappuch, as a first name.
Margaret
Hi Margaret
I just ran across this name today & was about to post it - to see if anyone had an inkling as to what it meant. Do you have any idea about the name - could we be looking at the same person. Mine is a lass (I think, 2nd name Mary) born Sep 1854 Reading/ died Sep 1856
Trish
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Hi Trish,
I actually have a couple of them, researching for other people.
One is:
Kerenhappuch Bosher married Richard Beal in 1814.
Kerenheppuch Bosher, born 27th December 1790. bp. 2nd Jan, 1891 at Cholsey, Berkshire- parents, John Bosher and Sarah Kirk (source - familysearch)
the other is:
The daughter of Wilkinson Myers and Mary Teal,
baptised at Keighley, Yorkshire on the 16th Aug 1835 (F/s)
I don't know if these two are linked through the Beal/Teal name, but strange coincidence, me thinks.
Of the second family there was another child named this, her mother was Rachael Myers the sister to Kerenhappuch.
Also the people who gave me the Myers one had found another family with this name: Kerenhappuch Myers b. 1829 the daughter of Godfrey Myers and Ellen, living in Barnsley, Yorkshire around 1841. They had two children, sons, which add to this list of unusual names - Mishack and Abednigo
I have no idea of its origins as yet!
Margaret
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Just did a 'yahoo'
Smith's Bible Dictionary
Kerenhappuch:
(the horn of beauty)
the youngest daughter of Job, born to him during the period of his reviving prosperity.
(job 42:14)
Margaret
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Hi Margaret
many thanks for all that - We don't seem to have any near relations ;D Must be a transcribers nightmare to see such a name
Trish
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I have just done a search on rootschat and was surprised that no-one has a Zorro, especially when ballgarside said "There was Zeno on my family tree. He had two sisters called Lucretia and Albinia!" My brother in law who comes from Slovenia is called Albin Zorro, his son is called Zorro and I know there is at least one other Zorro living in Perth. unfortunately none of them is dashingly handsome, wears a cape and flourishes a sword.
While on the subject of unusual names is there anyone out there with an Inday.
Denn
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i have come across a few uncommon names in my time
a great great uncle was Hezekia Page
then we had Theophilus Page
when doing my cousins tree she had Septimus Makin
about a year back i was sat in the a&e at my local hospitle and a nurse came through and called for Mr Man although that seems to be reasonably common now!
the best one and i apologise if anyone knows her i kid you not one day i was taking a parcel to a lady asked her to sighn and her name was Fanny Munchin
also on my cousins family tree there is a fanny Makin
and my gt grandparents surnames were Thomas GILLIVER and Hilda CURETON
they had doris GLLIVER who married bill MORETON
they had jean MORETON who married derek SMEDLEY
so some uncommon names there :)
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In my tree I have,
Young FRY
Legget Gardener COKER
and the most unusual one of all I posted the other day
Polyphemus Ann MARTIN
I should love to know if anyone has come across that last one before.
Jebber
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Found while looking through IGI Westerham, Kent.
Thankful Smallbones
I think she must have been a most precious baby.
Teresa
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I had my most amusing and hopefully uncommon name today...a poor boy Mr. & Mrs. Brooks decided to call B*stard. Poor child going through life with that name... ???
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I don't think that was the child's name, but a description! Are you certain there was a Mr Brooks? What was the date, and was it a cert or a Parish Record?
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My initial thought too was that was not his actual name when the information was relayed to me, but when I checked it turned out to be the case. B*stard is apparently a relatively common (well I say relatively common...about 50 people have had it as a middle name since 1837) middle name, especially around Devon & Cornwall. Perhaps it derives from a foreign surname rather than the expected meaning. ???
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B*stard as a surname occurs in Britain over hundreds of years, you only have to look at the BMD Index to find plenty of references.
Jebber
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Message re Yackabina - Have seen in some records as Lackabina.
Claridge/Southgate, family connection with me thru Rose and Hunningham Love to chat with you. Ruth :)
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I've got a few Hephzibahs and Thirzas and even one lucky lady who was Thirza Hephzibah - made up for her surname, Smith! Also a more ordinary name but with an unusual spelling - Phyllyss.
Heather
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I have more than one individual in my family named Clotworthy Skeffington. I don't, however, have anything to match a distant relative of my wife called Roxy Knickerbocker!
I once found Henrietta Cake in a neighbouring dwelling to some of my lot in a census. There really are some surnames that are incompatible with Henrietta! One of mine was Henrietta Masaroon -- that sounds like some kind of biscuit, surely?
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Bilton Milton Crust
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Maybe Cake was her married name! She might have been Henrietta Bun before that! ;D ;D
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Maybe Cake was her married name! She might have been Henrietta Bun before that! ;D ;D
;D Unfortunately not. If memory serves, she was a teenage domestic servant in the house next to where a relative of mine was similarly a teenage domestic servant.
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Here's a flavoursome one - Curry Goat, no not from Birmingham but from Brandon, Suffolk in 1851 the father of Mary Ann Goat, she married George Howes, she also had a brother in the household called Curry Goat - I couldn't bring myself to add it to the tree !! Can this be real ??
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Remillion is my most unusal Christian name, apparently quite common in Kent Circa 1800.
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I expect there wil be a little crop of 'Endellion's now!
I was once reading an article about names that Travellers gave to their children, which tended towards the exotic. One mother wanted her daughter christened Beelzebub, but the vicar would not allow it so she finally settled for 'Beelzy'!
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Not in the family but my parents had a friend called Geytha.
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I have a Hercules.
Anyone else come across one? Don't know if he lived up to his name.
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I have the christian name Angel strangely it was a male ::)
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I have a Christmas - bet you can't guess when his Birthday was ::)
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I was at school with someone called Olive Green. I kid you not. Popypies daughter? And she lived in Green road Mullingar.
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I have the christian name Angel strangely it was a male ::)
Poor ill-fated Tess (of the d'Urbervilles) married Angel Clare in Hardy's story. He wasn't much of an angel, though, one rule for men and one for women as usual.
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Daze it was a surname but was also used as a middle name in my fathers family and i have a female cousin with the middle name Rome
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I have a Hephzibah Wolfenden. ;D
Welsh Lady
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Strange how we think of angels as female the Archangels were Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Raguel, Lucifer and Remiel. after all
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A very early Archbishop of Melbourne was named Fieldflowers Goe!
Wiggy :)
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Lots of uncommon names in my tree:
Kesia/Keziah
Tamer/Tamar
Adeliza
Oeena
Christiana
Felix
Cissie
Mona
Selena
Hezekiah
Hepzibah
Leah
Jabez
Verena
Queenie
Shelah (male)
Enos
Aholibamah
Enoch
Sobey and Tobey (twins)
Sukey
Hercules
Jarrod
Prin
Theodocia
Malviner (male)
Ursula
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I have a number of Silences and a Temperance in my tree.
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the best I could do was Marcella until recently ...
now I (and all the nice people on the USA board) have unearthed her granddaughter LEOCADIA
.... well she was christened Catherine Matilda, but she seems to seesaw between Kate and Leocadia, every other census!
eadaoin
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Quote:
"I have a Christmas - bet you can't guess when his Birthday was?"
Would it be a couple of months before: Casey Pancake Pickup's ? (Chorley Births)
Yes! she did marry Mr Idle
Marriages Sep 1896
BONE Ellen Eliza St. Geo. H. Sq. 1a 1079
Field Rosina Ellen St. Geo. H. Sq. 1a 1079
Idle John Barrey St. Geo. H. Sq. 1a 1079
Stevens William St. Geo. H. Sq. 1a 1079
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My OH family has an Honour PEARTREE baptized at Finsbury in 1744
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Oceanaellen and Coral Reef, no relation to each other born in the 1880s (at sea, surprisingly ;D). Coral Reef was known as Karl.
Wyldbore, Silence, Cinderella, Diamond, Dorrit, Fabian, Leocadia and a :o Reverend B*stard......
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A couple of names from my tree are
Bowley Ball and Rudland Ramus...
Jules x
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abanathan daffin statham 1823 matlock
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Some of these names are amazing!
Modern names can be just as fascinating: saw a newspaper birth announcement (England) only last year welcoming into the world a
Carneya Natica, sister for:
Kerrec, Aerojen, Anzonia, Ennieco, Orlena, Markeeta and Anelka.
(Possibly names taken from a fantasy novel).
Any future genealogists in that family are going to be smiling! ;D
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Most of my family seem to have had quite normal names.
My Great-Grandfather had a sister by the name of Christian Jubilee Tomlinson, she was born in the Jubilee year of 1887 and I think (although I'm not certain) that Christian was the name of her Great-Grandmother.
One of my ggggGrandmothers was called Zipporah Bennett Ford, she married a William Smith, and all of their children had the middle and surnames of Bennett Ford Smith.
And my least common surname is definitely my Great-Grandmother's- Cyples, another unusual one (from the Cyples branch of my tree) is Toplas which I'm lead to believe has an amusing meaning!
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Found this morning Pennelepen Carlyon in Cornwall could have been a good one for the PM to have considered :) Has anyone seen this one before? Her baptism entry in Breage looks like Petternell
Trees
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I thought I'd hit rock bottom when I found a Fanny Wragg in my family tree but I have now found I'm descended from a family called Crapping ::)
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forgot about this 1
Barbara Martyn Rodriguez De La Borbolla-have now just found that she had 3 children thanks to new info on a........y site
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My grandad was named Septimus as he was the 7th son (of 17 kids )
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I have a 4x gt grandfather named Moses Wertheim, and in turn another called Askew Peel.
Maybe a distant relative called Elvira Maria Sestrap takes the lead though...
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My 6th great grandparents were Esdras Giddy, (son of Esdras, son of Esdras) and Constance Dionythorne who married 1698 in Liskeard Cornwall.
Margaret :)
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I have a Love Swaffield in my tree. b. Dorset 1852. Always reminds me of Hardy's Tess and her "Angel".
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Uncommon Names in my family tree:
Grimshaw Pickup ,very Dickensian,(wish I could sort out his line !!)
Friend Henry Edwards, in South Australia
brothers,Laban and Obadiah Halstead came to Australia
Hilma (female )
Christine,
Turramurra
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Three "Lodge" brothers - Northleigh Aneurin, Bryant Wynne and Brownlow Mayrick
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Okay . . .my family usually went for solid dependable names like George, Mary, William etc but every now and then they chose names like Koremhappuch. I think that this is the most unusual names in my FT.
Kirk
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Not one of mine, but searching through Probate records I found a
Zippy Alberta Rogers,
who had been left money by her late brother, George.
George & Zippy - paint the whole world with a Rainbow!
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Not one of mine, but searching through Probate records I found a
Zippy Alberta Rogers,
who had been left money by her late brother, George.
George & Zippy - paint the whole world with a Rainbow!
Hope the solicitor wasn't called Bungle! (Sorry, couldn't resist!)
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My two most unusual are Thankful Anthony an Providence Butt.
Oh and on OH's line we have Vence Dora Perry.
Carol
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I'm not sure if there is a law banning people from using offensive or bizarre first names, but what were the parents of this entry in the 1947 GRO birth register thinking?
1947Q4,Northam,Stranger,Northam,E.Glamorgan,8b,514
First name = Stranger
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Pasifull used as a middle name then a first name in the Branch family, and then the inevitable Olive Branch.
My great grandfather's third marriage was to Swissie N Barker......
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My husband has a boy in his family tree whose first name was Needless! He was the youngest child of the family, and their attitude to his arrival is fairly obvious. :(
Linda
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My 6th great grandparents were Esdras Giddy, (son of Esdras, son of Esdras) and Constance Dionythorne who married 1698 in Liskeard Cornwall.
Margaret :)
I just found out about my relation to Esdras today, receiving a copy of the family tree my cousin compiled. Below are some more details i can give you.
And the original Esdras was married to a woman named Joan YEVENS. They both died around the year 1646
Esdras Giddy, was born before Jun 21, 1669 in Liskeard Cornwall. He died around 1726, in Liskeard.
Constance died about 1750, in Liskeard. I don't know when she was born.
They were married at St. Martins Church on January 3rd.
Below is a picture of St. Martins.
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My 6th great grandparents were Esdras Giddy, (son of Esdras, son of Esdras) and Constance Dionythorne who married 1698 in Liskeard Cornwall.
Margaret :)
I just found out about my relation to Esdras today, receiving a copy of the family tree my cousin compiled. Below are some more details i can give you.
And the original Esdras was married to a woman named Joan YEVENS. They both died around the year 1646
Esdras Giddy, was born before Jun 21, 1669 in Liskeard Cornwall. He died around 1726, in Liskeard.
Constance died about 1750, in Liskeard. I don't know when she was born.
They were married at St. Martins Church on January 3rd.
Below is a picture of St. Martins.
Hi MJB-Toronto,
Yes, we are definitely descended from the same line - how wonderful that you found RootsChat! Welcome. :D Great to meet you 8)
I am descended from Esdras and Constance's son John Giddy (Bp. 5 Feb 1706 Liskeard) who married Philippa Truscott (Bp. 16 Mar 1714). They married 4 Nov 1734 at St.Cleer Cornwall England.
Their son William Giddy bp. 27 Apr 1743 who married Frances Cawl/Cole (bp. 29 Apr 1759) They married 19 Apr 1795 at St. Neot.
Their son John Giddy/Gedye and Ann Thomas.
Thank you so much for posting the photo of St. Martins Church, this is great because I wasn't aware that Esdras and Constance were married there.
Margaret :)
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My 6th great grandparents were Esdras Giddy, (son of Esdras, son of Esdras) and Constance Dionythorne who married 1698 in Liskeard Cornwall.
Margaret :)
I just found out about my relation to Esdras today, receiving a copy of the family tree my cousin compiled. Below are some more details i can give you.
And the original Esdras was married to a woman named Joan YEVENS. They both died around the year 1646
Esdras Giddy, was born before Jun 21, 1669 in Liskeard Cornwall. He died around 1726, in Liskeard.
Constance died about 1750, in Liskeard. I don't know when she was born.
They were married at St. Martins Church on January 3rd.
Below is a picture of St. Martins.
Hi MJB-Toronto,
Yes, we are definitely descended from the same line - how wonderful that you found RootsChat! Welcome. :D Great to meet you 8)
I am descended from Esdras and Constance's son John Giddy (Bp. 5 Feb 1706 Liskeard) who married Philippa Truscott (Bp. 16 Mar 1714). They married 4 Nov 1734 at St.Cleer Cornwall England.
Their son William Giddy bp. 27 Apr 1743 who married Frances Cawl/Cole (bp. 29 Apr 1759) They married 19 Apr 1795 at St. Neot.
Their son John Giddy/Gedye and Ann Thomas.
Thank you so much for posting the photo of St. Martins Church, this is great because I wasn't aware that Esdras and Constance were married there.
Margaret :)
:) thanks! The internet is an amazing thing isn't it? This generation of my family is in Canada, but predominantly, it was the UK til my parents came over.
I too, am descended from John Giddy and Phillippa Truscott, their son John Giddy and Elizabeth Stevens were married on October 26, 1762 (at St Cleer as well), their daughter, Ann Giddy (1772-1825) married my 4x Great Grandfather Henry Body (1775-1836). So essentially, our shared John Giddy is my 6x Great Grandfather, and Esdras was my 7x Great Grandfather. That would make us.. 6th cousins once removed? lol
and thank you for posting the name Esdras Giddy, as i thought it was the most unique one on my family tree, and would help me complete the map of ancestry!
I have contacted an organization in Cornwall, who apparently have copies of the last wills of Esdras Giddy (1649-1697) and Esdras Giddy (d.1646), and if I receive them, I will surely pass them on to you.
Cheers,
Michael
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I have a girl called Silence ::) perhaps in hopeful anticipation, and another called Zoerilda ;D
Cheers, Alison
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I've got lots of biblical names, and have got used to Barzellai, Manessah, Eliazar etc. I recently came across an Er though, which had me stumped for a bit! I thought it must be a mistake for Ernest at first, or a shortened form, but see from Wikipedia that it is also a biblical name.
Er was apparently killed by Yahweh because he was wicked. I don't think I would give one of my sons that name! And imagine the practical difficulies -
Anne
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By most uncommon do we mean uncommon to our tree or uncommon in general?
If the former then myself, my mother and my neice all rank as the most uncommon being the only occurences of our names.
Then of course there's the French line - their names are particularly unusual to me, but probably not that unusual in their native France. "Hilaire Alexandre Dominique Devos" sounds fantastically exotic to me.
I have a 3xG Grandmother - Lavinia - she's the only one in the tree.
Although there are a few of them I still find "Ambrose" to be an unusual name.
The middle name of "Frizelle" occurs once and I don't yet know from where it came.
Marjorie Lena Emilie (not Emily) and Ellice Victoria (not Alice) - both of these have baptism entries where their name has been misspelled and then crossed through and the correct spelling entered, so I guess mom and dad were paying attention when they had the girls baptised and wanted to make sure the names were spelled as they intended.
Others include (first and middle): Alta Mae; Christiana Evangeline; Harbur Jane; Helena Hannah Wilhelmina; Leoni Nelson; Richard Knyvet; Omega; Oswald Crichton; Thomas Chavasse; Vol; Walter Mereweather
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Would you believe Federal Constitution Sprague?
I did not make this up!
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How about Freelove Davenport?
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My 6th great grandparents were Esdras Giddy, (son of Esdras, son of Esdras) and Constance Dionythorne who married 1698 in Liskeard Cornwall.
Margaret :)
I just found out about my relation to Esdras today, receiving a copy of the family tree my cousin compiled. Below are some more details i can give you.
And the original Esdras was married to a woman named Joan YEVENS. They both died around the year 1646
Esdras Giddy, was born before Jun 21, 1669 in Liskeard Cornwall. He died around 1726, in Liskeard.
Constance died about 1750, in Liskeard. I don't know when she was born.
They were married at St. Martins Church on January 3rd.
Below is a picture of St. Martins.
Hi MJB-Toronto,
Yes, we are definitely descended from the same line - how wonderful that you found RootsChat! Welcome. :D Great to meet you 8)
I am descended from Esdras and Constance's son John Giddy (Bp. 5 Feb 1706 Liskeard) who married Philippa Truscott (Bp. 16 Mar 1714). They married 4 Nov 1734 at St.Cleer Cornwall England.
Their son William Giddy bp. 27 Apr 1743 who married Frances Cawl/Cole (bp. 29 Apr 1759) They married 19 Apr 1795 at St. Neot.
Their son John Giddy/Gedye and Ann Thomas.
Thank you so much for posting the photo of St. Martins Church, this is great because I wasn't aware that Esdras and Constance were married there.
Margaret :)
Hi Michael,
I've sent you a PM and just realised that you may need to have at least 3 posts to receive it.
Margaret :)
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I almost had a Tobirra but she turned out to be a Rebecca.
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I almost had a Tobirra but she turned out to be a Rebecca.
Acording to IGI I have a Huffenth -however it's a transcription error - it should be Staffurth
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I rather like my husband's 4x great grandmother's name - Hopestill Roots.
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Lovely one family who know its roots
I know a family with the surname Hole and a son William Charles poor chap
and a family of Jewlls with daughters Ruby and pearl
What were they thinking poor children
Trees
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Joseph John J Jimsboarder (born Strand, march quarter of 1875).
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Lucretia comes from a Roman family name, and Zeno is a Greek name, meaning "stranger"!
Rambler
I see you have Johnson amongst your list what are you looking for?
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one of my ancesters was a Isabela Codling a bit fishy
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Here's a flavoursome one - Curry Goat, no not from Birmingham but from Brandon, Suffolk in 1851 the father of Mary Ann Goat, she married George Howes, she also had a brother in the household called Curry Goat - I couldn't bring myself to add it to the tree !! Can this be real ??
This one is for real, he is my gt-gt-gt-gt Grandad !!
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any one heard of the Church for Peculiar People it exsisted around either Essex or Suffolk?
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Try this :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peculiar_People
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thankyou Trees i've found it.
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Jabez Mellor, Shepherd Hill, Hosetta Wimpenny !
Anyone ever heard o fthe name Hosetta before? may be biblical?
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Annanias. They used to call him Uncle Nice. He had a brother Appollos, who was Uncle Pol.
J.
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My great aunt who insisted on being addressed as Great Aunt Alicia turned out to be Alice Fanny Minnie! I disgraced myself by a loud guffaw in the Record Office when I found that gem
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Freak as a surname - prevalent in County Durham but does exist in other countries. Sometimes Freek, Freick, Frieck, Fricke and more. Not a good name to find on Indexes. ADMONITION Drew baptised 9 October 1768, Stoke Damerel, Devon, Daughter of William Drew and Joyce GAY.
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Loyzelure, my OH has six of these in his tree, mainly Dennysons and they're driving me demented.
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I think the favourite name I've come across to date is Hender Cotton Cock.
Although I do like Barnabus Barkhm just for the alliteration.
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Not on mother's side, Claridge family from Hunningham, Warwickshire, all other family names very ordinary, must look into father's side, Southgate from Suffolk
I am from that Claridge line, would love to make contact. Ruth :)
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I've recently come across a Helewise de Plaiz. Sounds foreign but she was born in Suffolk.
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Helewise looks like an inventive spelling of Elouise!
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Helewise looks like an inventive spelling of Elouise!
You could be right, especially as in the past the people who could write, just wrote down words phonetically. Elouise, as we now pronounce it, sounds so much prettier ;D Instead of a witch like person, she's now princess like. ::)
Lizzie
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hi I have Manona in the family. my great great mother.
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Re Uncommon Names 2010, While browsing on my ancestor Esdras Giddy, I found this posting. My line is from Thomas son of Esdras 1669-1726 and Constance. I have Edras Giddy 1640-1697 married Honour Prideaux (Prideaux family history very interesting) Esdras Giddy(Giddye) 1602-1646 married Joan Yewens back to Robert John Gedye and Joen unknown .Most interested in any family history and stories. My John Giddy was baptised at Mill Bay in Plymouth Devon to John Giddy & Elizabeth Harvey . My great grandmothers brother was also called Esdras in 1861. Cheers for the New Year Palma
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I have to say mine -Elsa-Mary, named after an Aunt who died in car crash!! ::)
Elsa-Mary
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I have an Edna Bullock who married a James Duck.
I suppose it's lucky he wasn't James Bucket :)
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How about Ichabod Pomeroy ??
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Re Uncommon Names 2010, While browsing on my ancestor Esdras Giddy, I found this posting. My line is from Thomas son of Esdras 1669-1726 and Constance. I have Edras Giddy 1640-1697 married Honour Prideaux (Prideaux family history very interesting) Esdras Giddy(Giddye) 1602-1646 married Joan Yewens back to Robert John Gedye and Joen unknown .Most interested in any family history and stories. My John Giddy was baptised at Mill Bay in Plymouth Devon to John Giddy & Elizabeth Harvey . My great grandmothers brother was also called Esdras in 1861. Cheers for the New Year Palma
Hi Palma,
Welcome to RootsChat :D
Great names, but if you're interested in any information people can find you on your family, you'd be wise to put it on a new thread. It will get lost on this one.
Cheers,
Alison ;D
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Welcome from me too Palma :) I have a couple of Prideaux's from Cornwall where are yours from?
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my great grandma andher aunt both named Planceana / plancena
seems great granny was named for her aunt who died as a young child, however great granny didn't like her exotic name and went through life calling herself Blanche!
iwhile searching the records for her I found a record for a boy named 'last' his surname . . . . . 'Childs'. . . . . seems his name wasn't a prophecy tho, his parents had 3 more after him!
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Pequin.
It is a Huguenot surname. In fact I had a dream about people with Huguenot blood in them and in reality I am one of those.
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The surname Teston (variants Tuston ,Tustin ,Tustison ) .
Probably from French .
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Surname Vazie - spelled like that quite reliably from mid-18th century but now as far as I can tell extinct in the UK.
(and sort-of irrelevantly, I once taught a class - in the days when boys were called by their surnames in school - with a Love, a Loveless and a Darling.
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I once had neighbours with the surname Vesey (to rhyme with hazy) which I guess is the spelling of Vazie nowadays :)
Heather
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I once had neighbours with the surname Vesey (to rhyme with hazy) which I guess is the spelling of Vazie nowadays
Heather
I.ve followed the families through the census returns and others and the name really has disappeared. I have come across all sorts of other spellings but they don't stem from this particular family, which was as far as I can tell in Westmorland, Northumberland and Durham; there was another, I think unrelated, small number of Vazies in Wiltshire. There is some (I think) fanciful account of origins from de Vesci - another of the "my ancestors came over with the Conqueror" stories.
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Just added a man called "Amor" to the tree....thought it was Amos mistranscribed but nope its Amor from the French for love. (born around 1805)
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My 3xgrandfather was Armuless Bellchamber.
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I have so many names on the tree, but I think this is one of mine - if not it stood out as it was a first name.
Welladvice
Bev
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Do tell more, I'd love to have contact with someone re: this man. Are you related to him and if so do you know who his parents were??????
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I'll try to go back and have a look but can't say when, though I will keep it in mind.
Kind regards
Bev
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Thanks, P
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Hi I have noticed Esdras Gedye 1602 mentioned here,i have a 10x Grandma named Grace Gedye born c1585 married to Thomas Rickarde. It seems Grace's Brother might be Esdras Gedye 1602,but I cannot find proof,hoping someone can help
Karen
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There's an extended family in east lancs with the surname fish who give it to children as a first name as well. There was even a "Fish Fish Fish".
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John Golden Jeffels b.1785 Whitby is my wifes 5x great grandfather. The name still makes me chuckle as does the Jeffels surname.
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Spanisher Robson. A several times great aunty by marriage who wed into my Mason family.
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Hophni.
On looking it up I found the answer. I have found a lot of males with the name Phineas in the same family, they include my gt grandfather, gt gt grandfather and 4th gt grandfather.
Hophi and Phineas were the two sons of Eli. The first book of Samuel describes them as the officiating priests at the sanctuary of Shiloh at the time of Hannah.
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Stamp Matthew Fuller (1848-1916).
He had five siblings (male and female) with Stamp as a middle name which suggests that Stamp was a family name from prior generations, but I've not found the link yet. :(
Bev
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I have an Avorice, female. Known as Avey.
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Hi, I'm also descended from a Crapping family (and proud of it), so if you're also a descendant, please let me know! Regards, Doug
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Theophilus Coveyduck.
Carol
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Like one of the earliest posts on here, I knew of a Teresa Green. My father was amazed when a friend of his seriously said he was calling his infant girl "Pearl" - with the surname "Button" - but the chap did!
TY
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Penystone Powney :)
B: 1699 Ives Place, Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
D: 8 Mar 1757 Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
(6x great grandfather)
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Fettiplace Parnell
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My several times Great Aunt - Fanny Shufflebotham. I still laugh out loud whenever I see it.
Today I have found an Amphillis Russell who has a daughter and grand daughter named Amphillis Willets.
Descendent of Amphillis are Uriah and Enoch Hill.
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I have a direct ancestor named Orange- yes, like the color- Riley Sproat. Riley was his mother's maiden name, but who... why.. how did he end up with Orange for a first name!
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One of my relatives was named Pickles Hartley Wolfenden. He married another Wolfenden in 1908 but she had the less colourful name of Ada. Pickles' father was also named Pickles. It is a surname in the area (Settle, W.Yks.) and another relative of mine also married a Pickles in Clitheroe.
Have yet to dig deeper to find out of Pickles and Ada were related.
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Archibald Algernon Waldegrave Sintzenich 1883 - 1958
Simon
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Gertrude Georgeanna Wallaker, her married surname was one of the most commonest in the UK.
I have found Kerrenhappuch in Suffolk a few times, a biblical forename, but quite rare.
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Just found a relative's marriage in Hastings in 1821. The rector's name was Webster Whistler. The bride had the rhyming name of Ann Dann, the second one in my tree.
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Not in my family but while going through some church registers recently I came across the delightfully named Faithful - son of Mr & Mrs Friend.
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Not in my family but while going through some church registers recently I came across the delightfully named Faithful - son of Mr & Mrs Friend.
I have a Faithful Street Brundrett. No other "puritan" names around him.
The surname appears in two widely separate parts of my tree. I've traced both back to the same village in Cheshire, but they don't join up - yet. ;D
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My kids have a female ancestor named Thankful in New England but well after Puritan times.
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I have a direct ancestor named Orange- yes, like the color- Riley Sproat. Riley was his mother's maiden name, but who... why.. how did he end up with Orange for a first name!
When I was doing New England research years ago, the name Orange did turn up as a boy’s name. Something to do with Protestants?
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The surname "Orange" is recorded in the Irish census for 1901 and 1911.
Most of them are Church of Ireland.
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The surname "Orange" is recorded in the Irish census for 1901 and 1911.
Most of them are Church of Ireland.
There were a number of Ulster Scot settlers that arrived in New Hampshire ca 1710 and gradually generations moved north into Vermont and into Quebec, some of my children’s ancestors were among them. Possibly they influenced the use of Orange as a given name in that area.
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That Spanisher Robson who wed into my family in 1831 was actually Penelope Spanisher Robson. So the Spanisher was a middle name.
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Exploring my Kent Tanton family once I came across the baptism of Hughridgiane Tanton, daughter of John Tanton, potter, Upper Towne, Deptford: baptised St Nicholas, 1 Aug 1721.
This is the most unusual forename I have seen. Presumably a clerical attempt at something, but what? (There's an Armenian family name variously spelt Eurijian Euridgian etc but why that?)
She seems to have gone by “Anne”.