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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #72 on: Wednesday 29 November 06 16:13 GMT (UK) »
Or near where I live in Kent  Pratts Bottom ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #73 on: Friday 01 December 06 16:47 GMT (UK) »
I have ancestors with the surname Barginall which seems uncommon to me. The funny thing is that one of them married a Smith!
My husbands family have a few like, Hayhoe and Snowball and Voller.  His great great grandmother's name was Minnie Scales, although it may not be uncommon, I think it's sweet.
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MASON - Northampton/Long Buckby
RUSSELL - Leicester
CIVIL - Northampton/Northumberland
SIMPSON - Leicester
HANWELL - Northampton/Long Buckby
BULLIMORE - Northampton/Lincoln
OGDEN - Northampton/London
BARGINALL - London
WRIGHT - Northampton
HILLYARD - Northampton
PICKERING - Northampton
OSBOURNE - Long Buckby
LETTS - Long buckby
LAW - Northampton
SEPPINGS - Norfolk
SIMMONS/SIMONS - Northampton
JOHNSON - Great Houghton, Northants

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #74 on: Friday 01 December 06 17:04 GMT (UK) »
Philadelphia - born 1758, Rudgewick ......
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #75 on: Sunday 03 December 06 12:01 GMT (UK) »
I once taught a child with the given name of JD - yes just the capital letters JD . The letters did not stand for other names. Always wondered how he would feel about it as he grew up.....dee
Steeles, Burton, Garrod (Norfolk), Clarke, Tomblin (Rutland)
Bauer (London, France), Blades, Parker (Surrey)
Edwards, Coles, Smith, Nunley, Craddock, York, & Linnell (Northants) )
Ehmcke, Deimel, Appelkamp (Germany)
Watts (Somerset, Wiltshire) Selway, Churchill, & Chappell (Somerset)
Redwood (Devon, Essex) Button, Archer, Leach (Cambridgeshire)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #76 on: Sunday 03 December 06 13:03 GMT (UK) »
The most unusual names in my family are Slaney Ann (2 of them) and Kesannah
Hide/Hyde Kent,Sussex,West Ham
Beale/Burgess Sussex
Reed West Ham,East Ham London
Banks Seaford,Rottingdean Sussex
Koller Poplar London,Como Italy.
Checkley Northamptonshire.
Bentley Northamptonshire.West Ham,Poplar
Ridley Gatehead Durham Northumberland.
Poplar.Galt, Ontario, Canada
Corbyn Poplar,West Ham.Suffolk
Merritt Norwich.West ham
Watson Norwich,West Ham


Corbyn Fressingield Suffolk
Ridley.Galt Ontario

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #77 on: Monday 04 December 06 00:34 GMT (UK) »
I had a young apprentice many years ago whose surname began with a "D"; her parents christened her Valerie! :o

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Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #78 on: Tuesday 19 December 06 21:21 GMT (UK) »
How about Kattelena Antivaccinator WEST, b. Medway second quarter 1875?
ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot; NB; Westminstr Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea
BRAKE - Nailsea
BURIATTE
CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
KREIN, Peter/Adam - Germany
LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER, MAXWELL - Ldn lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol tobacconist, London
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #79 on: Tuesday 19 December 06 22:04 GMT (UK) »
Antivaccinator? Obviously a family against vaccination for smallpox or something.   ::)  Poor child! .....dee
Steeles, Burton, Garrod (Norfolk), Clarke, Tomblin (Rutland)
Bauer (London, France), Blades, Parker (Surrey)
Edwards, Coles, Smith, Nunley, Craddock, York, & Linnell (Northants) )
Ehmcke, Deimel, Appelkamp (Germany)
Watts (Somerset, Wiltshire) Selway, Churchill, & Chappell (Somerset)
Redwood (Devon, Essex) Button, Archer, Leach (Cambridgeshire)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #80 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 13:39 GMT (UK) »
Uncommon christian names I have found in my family are:
Boys:
Flowers
Valentine
Field
French

Girls:
Keziah
Clemintine


And of course my three children have uncommon names:
Bromley Victoria Molly
Declan Montgomery Joseph
Uriah Malachy Ainsley

Well not all there names are uncommon but some are
ENG: Lincs: Flowers, Coxell, Winterton, Mays, Kime, Spreckley, Whiting, Colvin
ENG: Cornwall: Harding, Hocking, Julian, Johns, Lugg, Parsons, Bastion, Margant, Dawe, Rule, Whitburne, Andrew, Williams, James
SCO: Kirkcudbrightshire: Copland
WAL: Anglesey: Humphrey Jones
WAL: Pembrokeshire: Margaret Davis