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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #171 on: Friday 27 August 10 09:41 BST (UK) »
I have a Hephzibah Wolfenden. ;D

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #172 on: Friday 27 August 10 09:47 BST (UK) »
Strange how we think of angels as female the Archangels were Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Raguel, Lucifer and Remiel. after all
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #173 on: Friday 27 August 10 10:09 BST (UK) »
A very early Archbishop of Melbourne was named Fieldflowers Goe!

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Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
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Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #174 on: Friday 27 August 10 11:44 BST (UK) »
Lots of uncommon names in my tree:

Kesia/Keziah
Tamer/Tamar
Adeliza
Oeena
Christiana
Felix
Cissie
Mona
Selena
Hezekiah
Hepzibah
Leah
Jabez
Verena
Queenie
Shelah (male)
Enos
Aholibamah
Enoch
Sobey and Tobey (twins)
Sukey
Hercules
Jarrod
Prin
Theodocia
Malviner (male)
Ursula
Anderson - Leics., Yorks.; Attwood - Worcs., Staffs.,  Salop; Baylis - Worcs.; Beach/Bache - Worcs., Staffs., Salop; Bills - Devon, Worcs.<br />Dovey - Worcs., Staff., Salop; Gill - Worcs.; Hampton - Worcs., Staffs.; Hancox/Hancocks - Worcs., Staffs.<br />Hill - Worcs., Staffs., Salop; Sherwood - Worcs., Staffs.; Stonyer - Worcs., Staff., Salop, Essex<br />Woodall - Worcs., Staffs.; Potter - Essex.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #175 on: Friday 27 August 10 13:46 BST (UK) »
I have a number of Silences and a Temperance in my tree.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #176 on: Saturday 28 August 10 23:12 BST (UK) »
the best I could do was Marcella until recently ...

now I (and all the nice people on the USA board) have unearthed her granddaughter LEOCADIA
.... well she was christened Catherine Matilda, but she seems to seesaw between Kate and Leocadia, every other census!

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Brady - Dublin
Breslin - Wexford, Dublin
Byrne - Wicklow
O'Hara - Wexford, Kingstown
McLoghlin - Roscommon
Lawlor - Meath, Dublin
Lynam - Meath and Renovo, Pennsylvania
Everard - Meath
Fagan - Dublin
Meyler/Myler - Wicklow
Gray - Derry, Waterford
Kavanagh - Limerick

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #177 on: Saturday 28 August 10 23:44 BST (UK) »
Quote:

"I have a Christmas - bet you can't guess when his Birthday was?"


Would it be a couple of months before: Casey Pancake Pickup's ?   (Chorley Births)




Yes! she did marry Mr Idle

Marriages Sep 1896
 
BONE  Ellen Eliza    St. Geo. H. Sq.  1a 1079   
Field  Rosina Ellen     St. Geo. H. Sq.  1a 1079   
Idle  John Barrey     St. Geo. H. Sq.  1a 1079   
Stevens  William     St. Geo. H. Sq.  1a 1079

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #178 on: Sunday 29 August 10 03:00 BST (UK) »
My OH family has an Honour PEARTREE baptized at Finsbury in 1744

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #179 on: Sunday 29 August 10 10:29 BST (UK) »
Oceanaellen and Coral Reef, no relation to each other born in the 1880s (at sea, surprisingly  ;D).  Coral Reef was known as Karl.

Wyldbore, Silence, Cinderella, Diamond, Dorrit, Fabian, Leocadia and a  :o Reverend B*stard......
Jeacock
Colebourne
Shepherd
Scotter
Sievers
Knowles
Pritchard
Lilley
Hart/Hertz
Woodmansey
Monnington
Thomas (South Wales)
John (South Wales)
Pearce (South Wales)
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