What is your most uncommon name ? #2

[Lydart]

How about Ichabod Pomeroy ??

[ajf25]

Re Uncommon Names 2010, While browsing on my ancestor Esdras Giddy, I found this posting.  My line is from Thomas son of Esdras 1669-1726 and Constance.   I  have Edras Giddy 1640-1697 married Honour Prideaux (Prideaux family history very interesting)  Esdras Giddy(Giddye) 1602-1646 married Joan Yewens back to Robert John Gedye  and Joen unknown .Most interested in any family history and stories. My John Giddy was baptised at Mill Bay  in Plymouth Devon to John Giddy & Elizabeth Harvey . My great grandmothers brother was also called Esdras in 1861. Cheers for the New Year Palma

Hi Palma,

Welcome to RootsChat 

Great names, but if you're interested in any information people can find you on your family, you'd be wise to put it on a new thread.  It will get lost on this one.

Cheers,
Alison 

[Trees]

Welcome from me too Palma  I have a couple of Prideaux's from Cornwall where are yours from?

[Gaille]

my great grandma andher aunt both named Planceana / plancena

seems great granny was named for her aunt who died as a young child, however great granny didn't like her exotic name and went through life calling herself Blanche!


iwhile searching the records for her I found a record for a boy named 'last' his surname . . . . . 'Childs'. . . . . seems his name wasn't a prophecy tho, his parents had 3 more after him!

[coombs]

Pequin.

It is a Huguenot surname. In fact I had a dream about people with Huguenot blood in them and in reality I am one of those.

[sallyyorks]

The  surname Teston (variants Tuston ,Tustin ,Tustison ) .

Probably from French .
 

[GrahamSimons]

Surname Vazie - spelled like that quite reliably from mid-18th century but now as far as I can tell extinct in the UK.

(and sort-of irrelevantly, I once taught a class - in the days when boys were called by their surnames in school - with a Love, a Loveless and a Darling.

[HeatherLynne]

I once had neighbours with the surname Vesey (to rhyme with hazy) which I guess is the spelling of Vazie nowadays 

Heather

[GrahamSimons]

I once had neighbours with the surname Vesey (to rhyme with hazy) which I guess is the spelling of Vazie nowadays 
Heather

I.ve followed the families through the census returns and others and the name really has disappeared. I have come across all sorts of other spellings but they don't stem from this particular family, which was as far as I can tell in Westmorland, Northumberland and Durham; there was another, I think unrelated, small number of Vazies in Wiltshire. There is some (I think) fanciful account of origins from de Vesci - another of the "my ancestors came over with the Conqueror" stories.