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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Annie65115 on Monday 23 February 09 22:41 GMT (UK)
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A lot of the names I come across whilst doing my census searches make me groan - all those Gertrude Mauds, for example.
But today I found someone with a wonderful name! Jemima Raspberry was not a relative of mine but was in the same household as my lot. Jemima Raspberry - she could be a wonderful character in a childrens' book, couldn't she!
What wonderful names have you all found?
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The other day I found a Westminister [sic] Abby and his son, Westminister, Jr. in Brooklyn, NY in 1860.
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i found a fxnny panton in the cumnor P R
regards neil
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I've just had a Spinks Claypole enter my tree, I just love the name Spinks :D :D :D
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This theme has cropped up before. I like the Scottish habit of naming daughters after the men in the family and so creating the likes of Jamesina. I have yet to come across one, in my tree, which appeals to me more than my Gordonetta Forsyth. :)
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My most unusual is my 1st cousin twice removed Joseph Snowball Caswell named afetr his mother Elizabeth Ann Snowball but my true favourite is gt gran Christiana Sophia Amey.
Paul
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I have an Abraham Bendyback or Vendyback, sometimes known as Bendy as well. I think that the name probably comes from the Dutch 'Van de Beck'. I've also come across a Frysweed Quartermain (unfortunately not closely related to me!) Apparently Frysweed was an Oxford saint.
Slightly more exciting that my husband's ancestors.....I've just managed to wade my way through 4 generations of John Smiths!
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My gg grandmother's brother married a girl called Tamer Wilding - puts me in mind of a Bronte or Thomas Hardy heroine :)
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Apparently Frysweed was an Oxford saint.
Usually spelt Frideswide, and pronounced as it looks: Frides-wide. Not much better! if at all! :)
PS - I came across a Comfort Dash the other day. I'm sure we all know the feeling well ;D
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LEONE SEXTON DARYS OSWOLF FRANDALI FILINS (This is his first name) :o
and....
....TOLLEMACHE TOLEMACHE DE ARELLANA PLANTGENET TOLLEM (his surname)
Found whilst searching for a Sexton in 1911.
Wouldn't fancy learning to write that name at school ;D and no chance of getting him mixed up in the census with an identical name.
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I've come across him before. See CWGC. I guess they didn't put his full name on the headstone. :-\
TOLLEMACHE, LEONE SEXTUS
DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Died 20 Feb 1917, aged 32
Son of the Rev. Ralph William L. Tollemache-Tollemache, M.A., J.P., vicar of South Witham, Lincs and his wife Dora Cleopatra Maria L. Tollemache-Tollemache (nee de Orellana). His brother Leo also fell.
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How sad... but interesting. Thanks
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My most unusual is my 1st cousin twice removed Joseph Snowball Caswell named afetr his mother Elizabeth Ann Snowball but my true favourite is gt gran Christiana Sophia Amey.
Paul
I have Snowballs that married into my OH's tree.....I often wondered about the source/root of that particular surname. At present I have found a Jane Snowball Tate and a John Snowball Tate ;D
mab
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To my enormous satisfaction , I have today discovered a distant cousin, b 1891, called ETHELWYN WOODIWISS.
I feel I can conclude my research a happy woman ;D
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I too have comforts,
Fanny Comfort Fox
and Comfort Fox
My mother's maiden name though is Rosedale. It sounds very nice, and it's rare so I'm managed to trace it quite far back. I just think that's a great name :)
Lisa.
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I did have an Ann Browneye which I thought was a lovely name. Sadly it turned out she was actually Brownsey.
Paul
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I came across a Jeremiah EIGHTSHILLINGS yesterday. It makes a change ::)
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This theme has cropped up before. I like the Scottish habit of naming daughters after the men in the family and so creating the likes of Jamesina. I have yet to come across one, in my tree, which appeals to me more than my Gordonetta Forsyth. :)
Yes - one of my Grandad's sisters was named Robertina Beattie - but my Mum (and everyone else, it seems!) always referred to her as Aunt Ina! (pronounced "eye-nah")
On hubby's side we have the wonderfully named Everall Holtrum Pepper! :o
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Hi
I have a gggrandmother on my fathers maternal side who was called Hephzibah Taylor - this name has always fascinated me and I would love to know its origins. Also, like Duck I have the name Spinks in my tree on the paternal side of my fathers family - Walter Spinks Turner.
Crystal
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Hephzibah
Meaning: my delight is in her
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The wife of Hezekiah and mother of king Manasseh (2 Kings 21:1).
2.
A symbolical name of Zion, as representing the Lord's favor toward her (Isa. 62:4).
From the Christian names site.
Regards Peonie
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Thanks for that Peonie, that's lovely. My aim now is to try and find a picture of her.
Crystal
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Looking at the births for 2 people who I believed were called Bottomley, I found not 1 but 2 Willie Bottoms senior and junior (no wonder they changed their names). Whilst I was looking for them I also came across a Bottom that wasn't ours, a Rawden Bottom. I can only imagine the playground taunts!
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One of my ancestors was called Florence Nightingale Davey and at first because I didnt really know about the famous Florence Nightingale I thought it was the same one and I was like :o But quickly realised it wasnt the same person although they did live around the same time. :)
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I recently came across a Woolley Fields.
Chirp
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I've got a Willoughby Wharton who was always known as Uncle Tiddles.
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my gtgtgtgrandmother was called frizwith , probably a corruption of frideswide. john.
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While tracing a line of Brindleys I came across the name 'Puddephatt'. I had never heard that before but it seems it is not uncommon in Bucks. ara.
Jemima Raspberry sounds like one of those delightful Hobbit names made on a 'Lord of the Rings' name generator. :)
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In my research I have come across Samuel Rainbow Girdlestone born in 1766 his father was called Zurishaddai. What wonderful names, sadly they do not appear to be related to me.
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Amongst most of my boring names, THEOPHILUS PRATT ;D
Trish
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My most unusual is my 1st cousin twice removed Joseph Snowball Caswell named afetr his mother Elizabeth Ann Snowball but my true favourite is gt gran Christiana Sophia Amey.
Paul
I have Snowballs that married into my OH's tree.....I often wondered about the source/root of that particular surname. At present I have found a Jane Snowball Tate and a John Snowball Tate ;D
mab
you two may be interested in this article on the actor Jim Broadbent who has 'Snowballs' in his family
Link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/familyhistory/3355521/Family-detective-Jim-Broadbent.html)
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Found a Christmas Day Wagstaff while I was looking up marriages. No prizes for guessing when he was born!
Jan
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I've just come across a LAVINIA RAVEN...step sister to my G Grandad.
But this gets better, she marries a Robert W CROW 8) ;D
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Just been searching for John Donnelly in the Durham area and found a John Donnelly with his grandmother whose name was 'Ellen Fant' :D
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you two may be interested in this article on the actor Jim Broadbent who has 'Snowballs' in his family
Link (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/familyhistory/3355521/Family-detective-Jim-Broadbent.html)
I'll have a look at that as my great grandma was a Snowball. Back on topic, my OH has a Zipperina as a distant marry-in. I have a possible Melchisedeck way back but that line needs more research.
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Before I found the correct line for my great grandfather I was mistakenly on the hunt for the family of a certain Fanny Tugnutt. Glad they weren't relatives!
And doing someone else's tree, I came across an Ethel Ingersoll Minge! ;D
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Before I found the correct line for my great grandfather I was mistakenly on the hunt for the family of a certain Fanny Tugnutt. Glad they weren't relatives!
And doing someone else's tree, I came across an Ethel Ingersoll Minge! ;D
;D ;D Absolute classics.
Wonder if they are distant rellies of Fanny Tutcher born Q2 1870???
I have a cousin who has a few folks with the name Daft as either a forename of surname in his direct line, none as yet recorded as imbecile or lunatic on the census though.
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hehehe
make me laugh!!
I have found a Buttonhole Piki in my lot.
Raina (lol)
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this surname cracked me up when I 1st came across it.
Gotobed (349 of em 1881 Census)
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Hi All
My little girl school friend is named Charie Chips
What a wonderful name
Cheers Jan
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Hi - I've got an Isabella Golightly in my tree. I think that's a lovely name - I'd probably waft around meadows picking wildflowers if I had that name!
Maisie
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Hi
I have a Arthur Mario Agricole Collier Galletti di Cadillac which is a bit of a mouthful he married into a family who had members such as Septimus, Lancelot, Gee Gee and Jinks to name a few i like Jinks though it was a girl and i think it sounds more like a boy and Gee Gee is sweet.
Its nice to find the meaning of Hepzibah i have 3 in my tree and always wondered about it
Louise :D
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Hi - I've got an Isabella Golightly in my tree. I think that's a lovely name - I'd probably waft around meadows picking wildflowers if I had that name!
Maisie
Maisie,
I have several Isabella Golightlys in my tree. Would be very interested in comparing notes to see if there is any connection.
One was baptised in 1775, a twin of Margaret, and daughter of George Golightly.
A second was born about 1831, daughter of George Golightly and Isabella Rippon.
The third was born in 1857, illegitimate daughter of Martha Golightly.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Roberta
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Hi all'
Happy New Year :)
I mentioned on another thread about one in my lot called Atlantic Seaborn, named for obvious reason, quite common for immigrants to NZ to be named for a ship.
My husband went to school with a lady called Phillipa Crack, not sure what the girls parents were thinking ::) I bet she had no second thoughts about taking her husbands name when she married!
Leandra
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My husband went to school with a lady called Phillipa Crack, not sure what the girls parents were thinking
I 'spect they were thinking "seems like a good idea" at the time! My mother swears that when she was in hospital having me there was another girl born the same day to a Mr and Mrs Carter - they apparently called her Orsen :)
Ermy
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I knew a girl called Rose Plant :D
Jan
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My favourite one off the top of my head is a Loveday Toms. She is not a direct ancestor tho, (she's a sister of one of mine) but I would love to track where she went. Went onto the census thinking she would be easy to find... then found Loveday was quite a popular name in those days!
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Just came acrooss the surname SNEEZUM, while looking at the ancestors of some marriages in the tree.
They seem to be around the Essex / London / Surrey area.
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The name I always remember is someone my mother knew in Wirksworth in the 20s - she was called Caroline Augustine Arkwright Mossrose Spencer - none of the names is odd, but together a bit of a mouthful.
Regards
Derby Girl
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Going through the PRs for Brierley Hill I came across the baptisms of Zebra Joy Zipporah Page in 1792 (sadly she was buried just three days later) and Gustavus Caractacus Russell in 1795. The female christian name Sobriesketh pops up a fair bit too.
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Somewhere way back of my memory I'm sure I read and article that said the name Sobieska was given as a first name to show support for the disposed and exiled Stuart Family.
The wife of James Stuart ( the Old Pretender) and mother of Bonnie Prince Charlie being Maria Klementyna Sobieska or Sobieski.
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Somewhere way back of my memory I'm sure I read and article that said the name Sobieska was given as a first name to show support for the disposed and exiled Stuart Family.
The wife of James Stuart ( the Old Pretender) and mother of Bonnie Prince Charlie being Maria Klementyna Sobieska or Sobieski.
The diarist James Woodforde's sister was baptised Sobieski but was always called Sophy.
I was visiting Holligbourne Church in Kent yesterday which is the resting place of the Duppa family, an odd enough name which I had to google. The family ended up double barreled as Duppa-Crotch and eventually produced a William Duppa Duppa-Crotch.
Carole
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Years ago I worked with a retired police officer from the "good old days" who worked at a station in the rough part of town. There was one local family where the father and sons were always committing some petty crime and their last name was Duck.
Sure enough, one of the boys was named Donald.
Of course, any of the officers who had been working out of the station knew all about the Duck family, but every so often a new officer would come into the station and would inevitably arrest Donald.
The story goes like this:
Q. What's your name, son?
A. Donald Duck.
[Smack.]
Q. What's your name, son?
A. Donald Duck.
[Smack.]
Poor Donald is probably dead by now, and I'll bet he died in police custody.
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Whilst searching the census for someone else entirely, I recently came across Donald's sister, Daisy Duck :)
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Absolutely loved kizmiaz, Trillium62 and saimese girl posts ...... LOL!!
and Maisie I am so envious of your Isabella Golightly!
I thought things were going well, when researching my Pyle/Pile family name,
then up pops Snowdon Pile!!.......great I thought easy to find more about him,
but not so, in Newcastle on Tyne they are plenty!
I also have a Robert Jones who married ...... wait for it,.........Ann Angel!
Oh yes and I've also got a German Bateman!
Love reading everyones posts on this topic.
Alyson
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Found while I was looking through the IGI earlier, the children of a Charles and Caroline Hunt;
Charles Spring, Mary Winter, Caroline Amelia Summer and Ellen Autumn
All born one after another, although there were also two older sons (Charles and Harry) and youngest daughter (Ida Margaret).
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I found a man in the IGI whose name was 'Augustus Cesar Venables' . He married in Eccleshall, Staffs. in 1767 and subsequently had at least 3 children baptised there.
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Our tree has a Florence Nightingale Lamb - but I feel more for her brother who was named James Barr Lamb. Whatever were their parents thinking?
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My Greatgrandmother- Isabella Charlotte Augustra Jude.
Born Sunderland 1871.
Pul.
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I think Hephzibah Taylor may have been born Hephzibah Westhorp, daughter of a William Westhorp wife's christian name Talitha.
William was a strict Baptist preacher in the Burnham on Crouch area.
Does this help?