What is your most uncommon name ? #2

[Emmeline]

Many thanks ballgarside for your reply. I do love all these   stories - even when they are  not my own.
It would be interesting to know why they suddenly decided on more fancy names.
With a name like his own  perhaps William was of a literary nature and did a lot of reading - hence the change to something more exotic !
Hope you enjoy Rootschat as much as I do..........

[loo]

I ran into this forename recently:

"Queenie Elizabeth R."  The person was born in late 19th or early 20th C., long before the present monarch, so they must have been thinking about Eliz I.

[JudyAnne]

I had a friend whose mother and aunts were all named after flowers - Rose, Violet, Lily etc. That was quite common but I had a little chuckle when I spotted this lady in the GRO birth index

Attwell, Lily of the Valley

Do you think she signed things LOTV Attwell and did she ever use her 2nd name etc?

Jud

[wotty]

Most of the uncommon names in my tree turn out to be the mother's maiden name. While it shouldn't have been too bad for  Mr Harwood Angus or Mr Robinson Ridley, I do have to feel a bit sorry for these poor little boys: Chipchase Watson, Major Walter Watkins and Colonel Jubilee Watkins.

Wotty.

[prozac]

Ooo, these have made me laugh!

The only uncommon name I have is Baden.  I came across a Bartholemew (sp?) Burrows which made me chuckle, but he turned out not to be an ancestor.

[susie_aust]

I have a comfort fellows she was my gt gt aunt, and a Theophilus Leadbeater he was my grandfather.

[loo]

I had a friend whose mother and aunts were all named after flowers - Rose, Violet, Lily etc. That was quite common but I had a little chuckle when I spotted this lady in the GRO birth index

Attwell, Lily of the Valley

Do you think she signed things LOTV Attwell and did she ever use her 2nd name etc?

Jud

I have a rellie like that as well - there's Daisy, Lily, Violet, Rose, and I forget the other one - 5 altogether, I believe.  Does the ladies' maiden surname start with SKA... by any chance?  If so, please PM me!

[annaandchester]

I found an Ms Beer Batter (mistranscribed I think as image looked more like Batten) on my journeys the other day - must write them down in future.

Anna x

[annaandchester]

My fave family name is Fanny Figg! That was her married name - she was a Perks before that.

Anna x