What is your most uncommon name ? #2

[Simon G.]

My initial thought too was that was not his actual name when the information was relayed to me, but when I checked it turned out to be the case.  B*stard is apparently a relatively common (well I say relatively common...about 50 people have had it as a middle name since 1837) middle name, especially around Devon & Cornwall.  Perhaps it derives from a foreign surname rather than the expected meaning.

[Jebber]

B*stard as a surname occurs in Britain over hundreds of years, you only have to look at the BMD Index to find plenty of references.

Jebber

[eaglehawk]

Message re Yackabina -  Have seen in some records as Lackabina.
Claridge/Southgate, family connection with me thru Rose and Hunningham  Love to chat with you. Ruth

[HeatherLynne]

I've got a few Hephzibahs and Thirzas and even one lucky lady who was Thirza Hephzibah - made up for her surname, Smith!  Also a more ordinary name but with an unusual spelling - Phyllyss.

Heather

[FosseWay]

I have more than one individual in my family named Clotworthy Skeffington. I don't, however, have anything to match a distant relative of my wife called Roxy Knickerbocker!

I once found Henrietta Cake in a neighbouring dwelling to some of my lot in a census. There really are some surnames that are incompatible with Henrietta! One of mine was Henrietta Masaroon -- that sounds like some kind of biscuit, surely?

[JonathanC]

Bilton Milton Crust

[rancegal]

Maybe Cake was her married name! She might have been Henrietta Bun before that! 

[FosseWay]

Maybe Cake was her married name! She might have been Henrietta Bun before that! 

Unfortunately not. If memory serves, she was a teenage domestic servant in the house next to where a relative of mine was similarly a teenage domestic servant.

[howesd]

Here's a flavoursome one - Curry Goat, no not from Birmingham but from Brandon, Suffolk in 1851 the father of Mary Ann Goat, she married George Howes, she also had a brother in the household called Curry Goat - I couldn't bring myself to add it to the tree !!  Can this be real ??