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Offline nanny jan

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #36 on: Thursday 17 August 06 20:56 BST (UK) »
It's a draw between  Hamutal and Altezera  (both females).  I know Hamutal is found in the Bible but as for Altezera (and it's many variations!).....no idea.


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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #37 on: Friday 18 August 06 23:05 BST (UK) »
Lemmey  ;D  mind you she was also known as Jane

Could be so there was no confusion with her sister Leman (at least I think its Leman)
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #38 on: Wednesday 23 August 06 12:31 BST (UK) »
I have Marzolf, who I love for not being William or John. And who has also made my life easier, as I haven't come across this as a first name for anyone else yet.

And I have a Dorcas, which no one believes.  :-\ Not very common here in the States I guess.

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Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #39 on: Wednesday 23 August 06 22:30 BST (UK) »
Ormuz May Lane

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #40 on: Thursday 24 August 06 01:04 BST (UK) »
Quote from: KathMc on Wednesday 23 August 06 12:31 BST (UK)
And I have a Dorcas, which no one believes.  :-\
I'd believe...I've got quite a few Dorcas in my tree.  All Norwoods, strangely.  Must have been a family name...
Currently engaging in a one-name study of the Twyman surname.

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Berks, Challinor (Staffordshire).
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #41 on: Thursday 24 August 06 01:32 BST (UK) »
Quote from: sgolding on Thursday 24 August 06 01:04 BST (UK)
Quote from: KathMc on Wednesday 23 August 06 12:31 BST (UK)
And I have a Dorcas, which no one believes.  :-\
I'd believe...I've got quite a few Dorcas in my tree.  All Norwoods, strangely.  Must have been a family name...

After finding my Dorcas (Micklewright), I did find some other families that used the name, so it wasn't completely uncommon (not like my Marzolf) but it is a name I had never heard before. Quite a different connotation in the United States in the 20th and 21st century. I do wonder if she didn't like her name either. I found her in a couple census as Ann, which was her middle name.

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Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #42 on: Thursday 24 August 06 11:14 BST (UK) »

1) Friend Harry West.
2) Cleatus Winifred Flint - given her father's name because he had recently died in a boating accident.
3) Fitzgerald William Guladso West - which is actually an anagram of the real father's name.  When spoken the two middle names are meant to sound like William Gladstone, therefore you think he has been named after the famous Victorian politician, who died in 1899 - the same year Fitz was born.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #43 on: Thursday 24 August 06 13:46 BST (UK) »
Although I cannot claim the name in my family tree, whilst researching I stumbled over: Nonus Et Undecimus  HIERN.

I guess his parents were Latin freaks.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #44 on: Thursday 24 August 06 15:18 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Jill Shaw on Sunday 06 August 06 14:09 BST (UK)
Not as exciting as some, but can anyone tell me why a girl baptised Frances would be known as Tassie?

Probably a young sibling attempting to pronounce Frances - I have a friend called Elizabeth who was "christened" Dida by her sister.

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