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Offline Flora1966

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #180 on: Monday 30 August 10 16:30 BST (UK) »
A couple of names from my tree are

Bowley Ball and Rudland Ramus...

Jules x
Sussex-  MADGWICK, PONT, MITCHELL, COATES, WHEATLEY, NEWTON, COLLINS.
Kent - HALL, WARMAN, BOORN, STREDWICK, COLE, FILMER.
Suffolk - RAMUS, RUDLAND, DICKERSON, ASBEE.
Hampshire - MADGWICK, PEAKE, VARNDELL, CHAMPION, HINES, HELMS, GOSSLING.
London - PITT, RAMUS, BOOTE,
S Africa - VAN STAADEN, WATKINS, SLATER
Australia - MADGWICK, RAMUS, NEWTON.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #181 on: Monday 30 August 10 16:39 BST (UK) »
abanathan daffin statham 1823 matlock
Lowcock-Greasbrough
Morris-Derbyshire/Greasbrough/Hatfield
Chipp-Isle of wight/Mexborough/Derbyshire
Wallace+Wylie-Derbyshire
Rhoadhouse+Sellars-Greasbrough
Rickman-Hampshire New Forest+Johnson Hampshire/South Shields
Phillips/Carpenter-Lymington Hampshire
Goodwin+Beaney-Lewisham/Kent
Sayers-London/East Grinstead

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #182 on: Tuesday 31 August 10 18:48 BST (UK) »
Some of these names are amazing! 

Modern names can be just as fascinating: saw a newspaper birth announcement (England) only last year welcoming into the world a

Carneya Natica, sister for:

Kerrec, Aerojen, Anzonia, Ennieco, Orlena, Markeeta and Anelka.

(Possibly names taken from a fantasy novel).

Any future genealogists in that family are going to be smiling! ;D
Rogers: Sussex
Sanders/Saunders: Brenchley, Kent
Hales: Navenby, Lincs
Lidbetter: Sussex
Burns: Birmingham/Weston-super-Mare
Gray/Stocks: Weston-super-Mare
Hayden
Aldridge and Aldridge/Hayden
Bubb: Kent
Ward: Notts

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #183 on: Tuesday 31 August 10 20:35 BST (UK) »
Most of my family seem to have had quite normal names.

My Great-Grandfather had a sister by the name of Christian Jubilee Tomlinson, she was born in the Jubilee year of 1887 and I think (although I'm not certain) that Christian was the name of her Great-Grandmother.

One of my ggggGrandmothers was called Zipporah Bennett Ford, she married a William Smith, and all of their children had the middle and surnames of Bennett Ford Smith.

And my least common surname is definitely my Great-Grandmother's- Cyples, another unusual one (from the Cyples branch of my tree) is Toplas which I'm lead to believe has an amusing meaning!
Boulton (Staffs), Clayton (Staffs, Black Country, Shrops), Tomlinson (Staffs, Ches), Smith (Staffs, Worcs, Middx), Cyples (Staffs), Sharman (Staffs, Black Country, Herefs), Griffiths (Staffs, Lancs, Middx, Wrexham), Duncalf (Liverpool, Ches)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #184 on: Wednesday 01 September 10 07:07 BST (UK) »
Found this morning Pennelepen Carlyon in Cornwall could have been a good one for the PM to have considered  :) Has anyone seen this one before? Her baptism entry in Breage looks like Petternell
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #185 on: Wednesday 01 September 10 16:23 BST (UK) »
I thought I'd hit rock bottom when I found a Fanny Wragg in my family tree but I have now found I'm descended from a family called Crapping ::)
Day - Erdington / Aston, Birmingham
Smith - Erdington
Wragg - Birmingham, Ashover Derbyshire
Rabin - Erdington , Claverdon
Hastings - Coleshill
Butler - Curdworth
Fletcher - Willenhall
Wootton - Willenhall
de Nicolas - Spain , London , Birmingham & Plymouth
Clarke - Birmingham
Driscoll- Cobh,Cork Ireland
Hayman - Birmingham, Devon
Lovesey - Eynsham, Witney, Oxfordshire, Birmingham

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #186 on: Wednesday 01 September 10 16:32 BST (UK) »
forgot about this 1
Barbara Martyn Rodriguez De La Borbolla-have now just found that she had 3 children thanks to new info on a........y site
Lowcock-Greasbrough
Morris-Derbyshire/Greasbrough/Hatfield
Chipp-Isle of wight/Mexborough/Derbyshire
Wallace+Wylie-Derbyshire
Rhoadhouse+Sellars-Greasbrough
Rickman-Hampshire New Forest+Johnson Hampshire/South Shields
Phillips/Carpenter-Lymington Hampshire
Goodwin+Beaney-Lewisham/Kent
Sayers-London/East Grinstead

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #187 on: Friday 03 September 10 11:10 BST (UK) »
My grandad was named  Septimus as he was the 7th son  (of 17 kids )
CHALCRAFT  FIGG ~ SURREY/HANTS                                                             ASHFORD  ~ LONDON                                                                                        HILL    ~ SURREY, BISLEY                                                                              OGILVIE ~ EDINBURGH, FIFE                                                                       WAIGHT ~ LONDON

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #188 on: Friday 03 September 10 12:24 BST (UK) »
I have a 4x gt grandfather named Moses Wertheim, and in turn another called Askew Peel.

Maybe a distant relative called Elvira Maria Sestrap takes the lead though...
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