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Offline Reyz

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Re: Mahala - where does this name come from?
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 30 June 07 12:11 BST (UK) »
Hi

I have an Mahala PERRY born c1804 in Colchester Essex.  Really like the name!  :)

I was told by distant relatives I found, these Perry's descended from French Huguenots.
I have not been able to verify it yet but did wonder if the the name was of French origin?
Reading this interesting thread seems not.

Reyz


Essex  :  Lodge Wheal
London UK : Bird Bogg (Lightermen) Brittle, Chamberlane. Perry Spencer.
Forest of Dean Gloucestershire  :  Smith.
Herefordshire : Hope  Price  Protheroe
Somerset  :  Hughes  Lippiatt
South Wales UK :  Blaenavon and Brynmawr -  Hughes Smith
Merthyr Tydfil : Hope  Lloyd  Long Protheroe 
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Re: Mahala - where does this name come from?
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 03 July 07 19:44 BST (UK) »
In my Husband's Family tree......  Rutley's of  kent.  there is a Mahala just wanted to add my penny worth ;)

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Re: Mahala - where does this name come from?
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 16 January 08 20:34 GMT (UK) »
I have two Mahalas. My great Grandmother and Great Great Grandmother. Both from the IOW. I always thought the name was Irish. Obviously not.
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Benney/Benny of Cornwall and Devon
Mansell of IOW

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Re: Mahala - where does this name come from?
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 05 April 08 15:26 BST (UK) »
We have two in our Family tree..

Also a Zillah !
SLADEN,....NOTTINGHAM,NEWARK,MIDDLESEX.ST PANCRAS.
SMITH,......NOTTINGHAM,SHARDLOW
LOWE,.......NOTTINGHAM,SHEFFIELD,SHARDLOW
DUFFIN,....NOTTINGHAM,YORKSHIRE
WRIGHT,...NOTTINGHAM  
GOLLIN.....ILKESTON
BLAKE......ILKESTON,GALWAY

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Re: Mahala - where does this name come from?
« Reply #22 on: Monday 20 April 15 14:00 BST (UK) »
In trying to find an ancestor using the sideways method I came across this name once again.

I  used IGI to see if there were anymore so I could look for a link and found over 1000 references to Mahala in Lincolnshire alone ( so maybe 280-340 ) in the year range 1700-1850.

Mahala Brighton was born to George and Patience Brighton in Long Sutton in 1807. I will now go look at Non-Conforming records for Georges birth( I have his marriage and death). I quite like the name Mahala.  :)

Genealogy-Its a family thing

Paternal: Gibbins,McNamara, Jenkins, Schumann,  Inwood, Sheehan, Quinlan, Tierney, Cole

Maternal: Munn, Simpson , Brighton, Clayfield, Westmacott, Corbell, Hatherell, Blacksell/Blackstone, Boothey , Muirhead

Son: Bull, Kneebone, Lehmann, Cronin, Fowler, Yates, Biglands, Rix, Carpenter, Pethick, Carrick, Male, London, Jacka, Tilbrook, Scott, Hampshire, Buckley

Brickwalls-   Schumann, Simpson,Westmacott/Wennicot
Scott, Cronin
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Re: Mahala - where does this name come from?
« Reply #23 on: Saturday 08 October 22 02:58 BST (UK) »
Mahala is a Hebrew name, as is Zillah. I expect it's from the Old Testament if they are a non-Jewish family. It means 'tender'. I think it must have been decided that the correct transliteration was Mahla, as that's more common now. I know a Mahla but have never come across a Mahala.

Rachel Perry (London and Essex)

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Re: Mahala - where does this name come from?
« Reply #24 on: Saturday 08 October 22 19:31 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Kenike on Wednesday 30 May 07 12:53 BST (UK)
There is also a daughter Septemmia who changed her name to Emma when she was a servant and Mahalia changed to Rachael although I havent as yet determined which of these names either was born with.


Some employers renamed a servant who had an unusual name. 
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Re: Mahala - where does this name come from?
« Reply #25 on: Saturday 08 October 22 22:10 BST (UK) »
My wife's g grandmother was Lucy Mahala Greaves(Grieves) from Brancaster, Norfolk ; in one or two documents shown as Amelia- no doubt due to pronounciation difficulties as they moved from Norfolk to South Shields.
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Re: Mahala - where does this name come from?
« Reply #26 on: Friday 14 October 22 12:53 BST (UK) »
I wonder how Mahala was pronounced?
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