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Offline stonechat

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #54 on: Wednesday 05 April 06 15:29 BST (UK) »
Needless to say there are problems googling Cock family or its later version Cocks.
Douglas, Varnden, Joy(i)ce Surrey, Clarke Northants/Hunts, Pullen Worcs/Herefords, Holmes Birmingham/USA/Canada/Australia, Jackson Cheshire/Yorkshire, Lomas Cheshire, Lee Yorkshire, Cocks Lancashire, Leah Cheshire, Cook Yorkshire, Catlow Lancashire
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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #55 on: Wednesday 05 April 06 15:59 BST (UK) »
CRONE is pretty bad, not least in that it's a word you usually only associate with 'the old...' stuck on the front..... 

'Crone' in the censuses is almost invariably transcribed as 'Crane', 'Crown' or 'Crow'.  Googling Crone gives weird mystic sites (eg 'The third aspect of the Goddess is that of the Crone...')  :-\

But probably one of my trickiest is BOYS.  When I've tried googling that, I end up with loads of gay sites!! :o

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Shaw/Smith: Ottawa, Canada<br />Davies/Hill: Monmouth/Gloucestershire/Middlesex/Surrey<br />Chatfield: Kent<br />Crone: Kent/Sussex/Surrey/Ireland<br />Lyden: Ireland<br />Pannell, Newland, Proudley (travellers): Sussex/Surrey<br />Dobson, Hollins: Staffs/Cheshire/Warwicks<br />Boys: Sussex/London<br />Payne: Suffolk/London
Hasting(s): Sussex

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #56 on: Wednesday 05 April 06 17:13 BST (UK) »
Googling for my Weed family gave us some random and probably illegal sites, my worst though has to be William Williams, thats all I know about him!!

Stonechat, are you researching Dolby's??  I have Dolby's in Northants....

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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
DUR-Bainbridge,Hodgson,Richardson,Walker,Thompson,Armory,Wynn,Humble,Dunn,Chapman,Herin
YKS-Bradley,Hellawell,Dransfield,Sanderson,Gledhill,Mallinson,Tyas,Thornton,Nobel,Brook,Senior,Bower,Kay,Hirst,Smith,Lockwood, Clayton,Rollinson,Swallow
NTHNTS-Hubbard,Line,Goate,Tyler,Weed,Warren,Brown,Hollowell,Bird,Kirby,Dolby,Gilbert,Wootton
NFK-Burton,Myhill,Fisher,Thompson
LNRK-Neilson,Dudson,Forrest,McNight,Paterson
WL-Williams

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #57 on: Wednesday 05 April 06 17:19 BST (UK) »
The worst surname? Well, we would all agree - one's own! Everyone else has got it so easy... ;)

meles
Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk<br />Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk<br />Harrison: London; Pollock<br />Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx<br />Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk<br />Rogers: London; Bartlett: London<br />Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants<br />Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #58 on: Wednesday 05 April 06 17:45 BST (UK) »
the worst name I have in my tree is Gander, trying to google it is a nightmare, all you get is nursery rhymes and goosey goosey!! ::)

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LEICESTERSHIRE & MIDDLESBROUGH - BOLLANDS, GORE,
LINCOLNSHIRE - BAKEWELL, MARRIOTT
MONAGHAN & CRAMLINGTON - RICE
LAZENBY - HANSOM, HARRISON, NODDINGS, EASBY
BARNBY DUN - HARVEY, BLANCHARD
DANBY & WHITBY  - JEFFELS
LIVERPOOL - GANDER
SKELTON & ESTON - SEATON
BEDALE & MIDDLESBROUGH - STEPHENSON
BROUGHTON - HARRISON
MIDDLESBROUGH - WARD,FOSTER
PINCHINTHORPE -  POSTGATE
BILSDALE- BOYES


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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #59 on: Wednesday 05 April 06 17:53 BST (UK) »
Gander - nothing. Try googling my cousins the Hookers!

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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk<br />Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk<br />Harrison: London; Pollock<br />Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx<br />Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk<br />Rogers: London; Bartlett: London<br />Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants<br />Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #60 on: Wednesday 05 April 06 19:05 BST (UK) »
Hi Meles,

You've got Hookers too!!   ;D

Pipkim
Cheshire - Shustoke, Atherstone, Nuneaton, Birmingham
Morgan - Liverpool, Burnley, Leicester, Birmingham (Morjeanstern - France, Liverpool, Burnley, Leicester)
Quinn/Quin - Ireland, Liverpool, Leicester, Birmingham
Bailey/Health/Andrews - Birmingham, (Stepney briefly), Smethwick, Bristol
Thomas/Keen - Oxfordshire, Westminster
Hooker - Odiham, Romsey, IofW, Basingstoke, London St Geo Sq

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #61 on: Wednesday 05 April 06 19:41 BST (UK) »
Well, Pipkim, I'm not sure I would have phrased it exactly that way... but if the cap fits...! ;D

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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk<br />Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk<br />Harrison: London; Pollock<br />Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx<br />Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk<br />Rogers: London; Bartlett: London<br />Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants<br />Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #62 on: Wednesday 05 April 06 21:43 BST (UK) »
i havn't tried it, but we have a chatter looking for a FANNY PAINE i wonder what that comes up with on google.
KUHNELL, prussia, germany, australia. TAYLOR, easton in gordano, penmark, essex. barry, glamorgan. HILL, southampton, barry, glamorgan.
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