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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #81 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 13:40 GMT (UK) »
Funniest name I have seen is:

Katz Meeouw
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #82 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 14:11 GMT (UK) »
  :o  :-\  :)

Slightly off track -but  my mother was going to call me Somerset Cinnamon Shaw !
She said she knew that i would have auburn hair ! :-\

My married name is Sillence - imagine if i'd have been Somersert Cinnamon Sillence, try saying that with false teeth!  ;D

As you can see by the grin i don't have false teeth - yet !
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #83 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 16:09 GMT (UK) »
A neighbour of mine had 3 boys, Wolf, Magnuss and Lierfrick
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #84 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 17:36 GMT (UK) »
My Dad used to talk about a relative called Cassidy Cow or would it be Cowe
I wonder if there was a person if so they would come from the Scottish side of the family
Anyone know of such a name could be Fraserbough

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #85 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 18:12 GMT (UK) »
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #86 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 18:25 GMT (UK) »
My gran and her sisters' names are not particularly unusual when taken by themselves, but when listed, makes my great granparents look obsessive (or unimaginative) -

Ivy
Daisy
Pansy
Laurel
Rose
Hazel
May, and my gran
Nellie (huh?)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #87 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 18:56 GMT (UK) »
She ran out of flowers she liked Meles :) :) :)
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #88 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 19:09 GMT (UK) »
That's it, Patrish! I'd hate to think I'd inherited unimaginative genes!  ;)

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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk<br />Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk<br />Harrison: London; Pollock<br />Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx<br />Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk<br />Rogers: London; Bartlett: London<br />Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants<br />Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #89 on: Wednesday 27 December 06 21:01 GMT (UK) »
It was Maddock PUGH (it seemed surprisingly modern for a man both in 1808) then I discovered a succession of chaps called Bransom HAGGIS.

Apparently the name comes from the word haghaus which meant wood shed and the first HAGGISs or (should that be HAGGI ;D ) were most likely to have been wood-cutters.
GILBY - Essex, Warwickshire and Cambridgeshire
OWENS - Yorkshire (West Riding) and Ireland
PUGH - Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, and Nottinghamshire
RYLANDS - Liverpool and Ireland
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