Can anybody decipher this first name?

[kerryb]

Hi

Does anybody know what the fourth name on the attachment is?  The transcription is Phery and the more I stare, the less I can think!!!  Does anybody have any ideas?

Kerry

[linmey]

Looking at the names of the siblings one would guess that it wouldnt be too unusual a name. However, they can suprise you sometimes. I will carry on staring.
               Linmey.

[lizdb]

Is it male or female? If male, Philip is a possibility, though I'm not convinced.

[MaryA]

I wonder if the enumerator took a guess at the spelling rather than asking.  There is an Ann Phenie Buxton born March qtr 1876 Mansfield Derbyshire/Nottingham 7b 91.

Failing it being this one, can you give us details of the census you found them in and we can try other years.

Mary

[kerryb]

Hi all and thank you

Good point Liz, it's a daughter!

This is from 1851 census, Hackney, Middx and she was 18 at time of census making her born 1833.  I have looked for James and Alice through other census records with no luck but Buxton seems to regularly get transcribed for something else.

In fact this one I found under Baston.  You can just see why!

Thanks

Kerry

[Headbanger Veron]

It certainly looks like Phery to me. I had a look in 1851 for anyone else called that and there is another one.. in Marylebone - the name on the scan looks exactly the same.  I have one family where all the children were called perfectly normal things except the one called Albany... who seems to have been christened William but then known as Albany throughout his childhood before reverting to William again.... maybe it could be something like that?

Just a thought 

Veron

[kerryb]

Veron

You are right, it really doesn't look like anything else, I am going to continue to find her elsewhere and see what happens.  I will look at the other on in Marylebone.

Very unusual name - I wonder where it comes from??

Kerry

[linmey]

When you type the word Phery into Google it comes up with
  Dormancy of germination of heteromorphic achenes of bidenes frondosa.

        We knew that didnt we!!
           Linmey

[loo]

The more I look at that capital letter, the less I know what it is.

How about Shery?