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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #99 on: Friday 18 March 05 15:45 GMT (UK) »
I think she was a muse of poetry.   In real life, a genus of small, attractive, but unspectacular marine gastropods.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #100 on: Saturday 19 March 05 11:16 GMT (UK) »
I have been using Siouxzie, since I was about 11 (1973).  Definitely before I'd heard of Siouzxie Sue and the Banshees, I think she copied it from me.  It was more to do with my love of old black and white westerns on the telly of an afternoon and my sympathies lying with the native americans, I was a strange 11 year old.  I used to make the S be a snake with a long forked tongue.  But I too sign with my actual name Suzanne, as it seems more grown up, not that I am or anything.
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Shropshire- WALL
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Windsor, Berkshire - MILES
Buckinghamshire - MILES
Monmouthshire - JAMES & MORRIS
Herefordshire- FLEET
Yorkshire- SHIPLEY & GRAY
Sussex- EDWARDS & KNIGHT
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Wolverhampton area Staffordshire- ASTON
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #101 on: Sunday 20 March 05 06:43 GMT (UK) »
Having Irish roots(albeit not Kerry ones) i celebrated and saw in the new millennium at the Earl of Desmond in Tralee.Sometimes being guilty of suffering from senior moments its an easy name to remember.Tralee
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #102 on: Tuesday 29 March 05 08:15 BST (UK) »
My first name was taken so I went for my second one Rosanne
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #103 on: Tuesday 19 April 05 20:57 BST (UK) »
 ;) ;) ;)

Isn't anyone else going to tell us how they chose their Rootschat name ?

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BUCKLEY, Ches. & Lancs, DUNN, Ireland & Lancs. EDGSON, Rutland, Leics & Lancs. LYON, Lancs. McNULTY, Ireland & Lancs. MORRIS, Beds, Hunts & Lancs. SWARBRICK, Lancs. TURNER, Lancs. WILLIAMSON, Lancs.

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #104 on: Tuesday 19 April 05 22:34 BST (UK) »
Since my original post on this thread, I have changed my user name.

Lloydy is my husband's nickname ;D


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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #105 on: Tuesday 19 April 05 23:00 BST (UK) »
I chose my name very sentimetally as I was doing the family tree I called myself what my Gramps used to call me  :)

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #106 on: Sunday 24 April 05 20:19 BST (UK) »
Mine was a simple matter of remembering. I tend to write myself notes to remember things, then forget where I put the notes, so I chose my Grandfather's initials since I was doing genealogy research.
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #107 on: Sunday 24 April 05 22:47 BST (UK) »
Since I have lots of nicknames from all over the web. I decided I wanted a totally new one that was just connected to genealogy.  One of my sons favorite cartoons was on TV at the time I was registering and it has a beaver in it. And beavers dig right? Since I was looking for my Burrow family in the West Country - Burrow Digger came to mind and it fit perfectly.  And a very tenacious female Burrow Digger I am too. :)

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