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Offline margaret1

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #189 on: Friday 03 September 10 22:30 BST (UK) »
My 6th great grandparents were Esdras Giddy, (son of Esdras, son of Esdras) and Constance Dionythorne who married 1698 in Liskeard Cornwall.

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CADDY/COPPIN/DENITHORNE/GEDYE/GIDDEY/GROWDEN/THOMAS/Cornwall
CAREY,CARRÉ Huguenot/France/Kent/NZ/NSW
CARMICHAEL/GRAHAM/CRAMB/STEWART/Perth
CLOUGH/Lancs/Yorks/NSW
CORNWELL/Kent/NSW 
EATON/Lon/NSW    
MALYON/Mdx  
MATTHEWS/Lon/Sry/Oxf/Glouc/NSW
McLEOD/THOMSON/E Lothian
QUINN/Kilkenny
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #190 on: Saturday 04 September 10 00:32 BST (UK) »
I have  a Love Swaffield in my tree.  b. Dorset 1852.    Always reminds me of Hardy's Tess and her "Angel".
Gale - Hampshire
Chivers - Wiltshire
Clothier - Dorset
Kane - Ireland (Dublin)
Doyle - Ireland (Dublin)
Loader - Hampshire/Dorset
Groves - Dorset
Hacker - Wiltshire

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #191 on: Saturday 04 September 10 05:16 BST (UK) »
Uncommon Names in my family tree:
Grimshaw Pickup   ,very Dickensian,(wish I could sort out his line !!)

Friend Henry Edwards,  in South Australia

brothers,Laban and Obadiah Halstead   came to Australia
Hilma (female )

Christine,
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HALSTEAD Essex, Australia,EVERETT Essex,  BIDDLE, Leicester and Rome Italy, GRUNOW, Adolph b1858 Berlin Germany
Soratapassenger on  ship to Australia 1800 , PICKUP Lanc, NICOL Sct, Joseph Smith and Margaret Holmes Convicts to Australia 2nd fleet and 3rd fleet

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #192 on: Saturday 04 September 10 14:38 BST (UK) »
Three "Lodge" brothers - Northleigh Aneurin, Bryant Wynne and  Brownlow Mayrick
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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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #193 on: Saturday 04 September 10 17:03 BST (UK) »
Okay . . .my family usually went for solid dependable names like George, Mary, William etc but every now and then they chose names like Koremhappuch.  I think that this is the most unusual names in my FT.
Kirk
London/Greater London:  Owen, Ford, Plank, Paul and . . . Smith.
Essex:  Robjant, Brown (!)
Yorkshire:  Fallowfield, Snarr, Wood, Dunn, Heron, Bean, Wright
Leics. : Flude, Smalley, Caris,
Northants: Flude
Lincs: Borrass, Hall (Grantham)
Staffs : Owen, Browne
Salop: Carver, Tristram
Suffolk: Barber, Boor
Kent: Reed, Gardiner, Vant, Miles
Wales:
Pembroke : Rees, Llewelyn
Elsewhere:
Ford, Rodrigues

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #194 on: Sunday 05 September 10 00:53 BST (UK) »
Not one of mine, but searching through Probate records I found a

Zippy Alberta Rogers,

who had been left money by her late brother, George.

George & Zippy - paint the whole world with a Rainbow!
Rogers: Sussex
Sanders/Saunders: Brenchley, Kent
Hales: Navenby, Lincs
Lidbetter: Sussex
Burns: Birmingham/Weston-super-Mare
Gray/Stocks: Weston-super-Mare
Hayden
Aldridge and Aldridge/Hayden
Bubb: Kent
Ward: Notts

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #195 on: Sunday 05 September 10 12:10 BST (UK) »
Quote from: mrs.tenacious on Sunday 05 September 10 00:53 BST (UK)
Not one of mine, but searching through Probate records I found a

Zippy Alberta Rogers,

who had been left money by her late brother, George.

George & Zippy - paint the whole world with a Rainbow!

Hope the solicitor wasn't called Bungle! (Sorry, couldn't resist!)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #196 on: Sunday 05 September 10 18:56 BST (UK) »
My two most unusual are Thankful Anthony an Providence Butt.
Oh and on OH's line we have Vence Dora Perry.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #197 on: Saturday 11 September 10 13:48 BST (UK) »
I'm not sure if there is a law banning people from using offensive or bizarre first names, but what were the parents of this entry in the 1947 GRO birth register thinking?

1947Q4,Northam,Stranger,Northam,E.Glamorgan,8b,514

First name = Stranger

Sussex: Floate, West
Kent: Tuffee
Cheshire: Gradwell
Lancashire: Gradwell

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