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Offline polidor

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #27 on: Sunday 05 March 06 12:05 GMT (UK) »
The surnames are bad enough, mine are Evans,Hughes &Roberts from Wales!!! But, why o why did they all call their children by the same christian name ? i seem to have a million Elizabeths,Johns & Hughs!!! Poli.
Behling---- London
Bridges---- London
Copperwheat----Bedfordshire---Norfolk
Denton----Bedfordshire
Edwards----Wales
Evans----N.Wales
Farrow----Norfolk
Hughes----N.Wales
Jones----Wales---Bedfordshire
Lambert----London
Larmouth/uth----London
Ostler----Norfolk
Sherwood----Bedfordshire
Silver----Bedfordshire---Suffolk
Smart----Leicestershire---Middx
Teagle----Buckinghamshire---Wales
Totterdell----Hampshire---London---Stoke-On-Trent
Woods----London

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #28 on: Sunday 05 March 06 12:24 GMT (UK) »
I'm looking for ADDY and it would have been a lot easier if folks hadn't shortened ADDRESS down to ADDY - there are so many email addy's and website addy's around these days  :-\

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #29 on: Sunday 05 March 06 13:19 GMT (UK) »
I stopped when I got to my GG Grandfather from Ireland - Matthew Good. Apart from having a number of different places of birth on official documents - googling "Good" or even searching for the word on a genealogy forum is somewhat disheartening.  :(  :(  :( 

Trish
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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #30 on: Sunday 05 March 06 14:32 GMT (UK) »
My worst name search is Cheshire, the only thing to come up is the county!!!  ::)

Fortunately I have now managed to find quite a lot about them, well, to the beginning of the 1800's.  :)

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 #31 on: Monday 06 March 06 01:49 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: pipkim on Sunday 05 March 06 14:32 GMT (UK)
My worst name search is Cheshire, the only thing to come up is the county!!!  ::)

Fortunately I have now managed to find quite a lot about them, well, to the beginning of the 1800's.  :)



I have the same problem with my Cornwall (changed to Cornwell about 1800) and Bury lines and when using the search facility on this site for my Tuck family I found  there are many rootschatters who are stuck . ;)

margaret :)
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ARCHIBALD/ADAMS/BROWN/GORDON/WILSON/Midlothian
CADDY/COPPIN/DENITHORNE/GEDYE/GIDDEY/GROWDEN/THOMAS/Cornwall
CAREY,CARRÉ Huguenot/France/Kent/NZ/NSW
CARMICHAEL/GRAHAM/CRAMB/STEWART/Perth
CLOUGH/Lancs/Yorks/NSW
CORNWELL/Kent/NSW 
EATON/Lon/NSW    
MALYON/Mdx  
MATTHEWS/Lon/Sry/Oxf/Glouc/NSW
McLEOD/THOMSON/E Lothian
QUINN/Kilkenny
TUCK/HART/Mdx/Esx
VICCARS/ Lond/Northamps/Hunts

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #32 on: Monday 06 March 06 10:47 GMT (UK) »
Hi Margaret,  ;)

Yep! Cornwall does look tricky not to mention Tuck, funny what search results come up.

I now have a few problems with Andrews (lots of St Andrews) and Morgan (I get lots of Glamorgan) but at least amongst the posts there are family names cropping up.

I see you have Quinn as a name interest, me too, mine are John and Amelia Quinn Married Birmingham 1863. I have a post on the Birmingham site probably p2 by now.

Regards 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 #33 on: Monday 06 March 06 11:20 GMT (UK) »
I have problems with the name Burns - tend to get how to tend burns and scalds!

Carol
Thomas, Williams,Owen (s),Griffith (s), Jones - Anglesey<br />Burns, Wallace - Northumberland, Ireland, Scotland<br />Horsburgh, Sandilands, Blackhall, Rankine, Rankin, Hilson, Nielson - Scotland <br />Turnbull, Mills, Burgoyne, Burgon - Northumberland, <br />Davidson - Scotland, India, Burma<br /> Lopez - India, Burma<br/>

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #34 on: Monday 06 March 06 16:35 GMT (UK) »
How about my name Beard - we get Blackbeard Bluebeard and various colours and lengths of beard!
Beard Voyce, Scrivens in Worcestershire

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Re: The worst surnames to search for?
« Reply #35 on: Monday 06 March 06 18:39 GMT (UK) »
You want to try and find 'Stables' surname. Get all sorts of riding stables etc., ::) ::)

 However one of the worst things is how names were being spelt in the 19c. This can also happen with transcribers who look at a name and misspell it.  when searching the census records I have taken to using christian name, birth year plus where born. Even then christian names can be mispelt.  ::)

Oh well at least it keeps me out of trouble.

Jean

McGurn, Stables, Harris, Owens, Bellis, Stackhouse, Darwent, Co(o)mbe
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