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Offline chinakay

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Names you just don't see anymore
« on: Friday 15 December 06 20:25 GMT (UK) »
....and I'm not the least bit sorry ;D In my travels around the various censuses and PRs I've discovered a few women's names that seem to have disappeared completely:

Frizes
Dousabell
Effane
Dionesse
Emot
Thomasin
Phenenna
Volentyne
Lettice

I wondered if anyone could add to this list, especially with men's names...don't seem to be any of those. (I had a couple more but I can't find my notes...a familiar story ;D)

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #1 on: Friday 15 December 06 21:07 GMT (UK) »
I came across a girlie one I love

Therza

All my men seem to be Thomas, but no plum in the mouth Thomas' these are Welsh men  ;D

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BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester
FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London
BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester
DERICK ~ France
FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth
TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire
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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #2 on: Friday 15 December 06 21:14 GMT (UK) »
I,ve got a "Comfort" in my tree, born 1810-ish, with a neice given same name!! :D
Larden/Cecil-Birmingham/lichfield/halesowen<br />Lombardozzi-Sora-Italy<br />Tuzi/Tuzio/Tuzzio- Sora-Italy/birmingham,
La Rocca/Tersigni/Lancia-Sora-Italy
Farrell/Battle-Ireland/Birmingham
Polsinelli/Gismondi-Sora-Italy<br />Heffer/Turner-Bristol-Frampton cotterell<br />Dean/skinner-Huntley,gloucs<br />Hinkley-Aston-Juxta-Birmingham<br /><br />Mchale/Oldbury/Ireland<br />Hinton/Smith/Carter/Hercules-Worcestershire.

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #3 on: Friday 15 December 06 21:16 GMT (UK) »
whoops forgot Elphelet!!! Herbrew, so the internet, tells me!! ::)
Larden/Cecil-Birmingham/lichfield/halesowen<br />Lombardozzi-Sora-Italy<br />Tuzi/Tuzio/Tuzzio- Sora-Italy/birmingham,
La Rocca/Tersigni/Lancia-Sora-Italy
Farrell/Battle-Ireland/Birmingham
Polsinelli/Gismondi-Sora-Italy<br />Heffer/Turner-Bristol-Frampton cotterell<br />Dean/skinner-Huntley,gloucs<br />Hinkley-Aston-Juxta-Birmingham<br /><br />Mchale/Oldbury/Ireland<br />Hinton/Smith/Carter/Hercules-Worcestershire.

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #4 on: Friday 15 December 06 21:38 GMT (UK) »
In the male department I've come across:

Theophilius
Ham
Alonzo
Pleasant
Titus
Jabez
Elijah

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Jowett & Broadbent in Leeds.
Perry, Hartshorn/e & Wilkes in Birmingham & Dudley. Walker and Dabill in Sheffield & Notts.
Farrar in Darlington & Leeds.
Kidd & Taylor in Hartlepool & Teesside
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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #5 on: Friday 15 December 06 21:53 GMT (UK) »
Thomasin...my grandmother's middle name was "Thomasine", named after her father whose name was Thomas.  My cousin, to her great disgust, was given Thomasine as a middle name too!  She detests it, but I actually quite like it  :)

I've seen variants on Thomasin such as Tamzin and Tamzen.  I suppose it lives on today, as when I was growing up there seemed to be a few Tamsins around  :)

A few ladies' names in my tree that I don't think have made it to the 21st century:

Emella
Jackett
Jacquid
Loveday
Dorcas
Cat
Fortunata
Mally
Jenfer
Ellezzabet
Alse
Tryphena

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #6 on: Friday 15 December 06 22:27 GMT (UK) »
Well I've got a few in my tree, especially where the family name HAD to be carried on and ended up as a first name...

boys
Purchas
Denchfield

girls
Parnel
Parnella
Blandina
Darnigold
Thirza
Mahala

They don't make em like that these days, folk! :D
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #7 on: Friday 15 December 06 22:42 GMT (UK) »
I have an Enos in my OH's tree, thankfully the only one.  OH also has an Ethel, who I always feel sorry for her as sisters all had much nicer names, ie Lucy, Victoria and Alice.  
He has aunts Maud and  Nellie not surprising they've gone out of fashion. ::)

My lot were a bit more adventurous with a Lois, Loanda, Mercy and Charity thrown in among the Mary's and Elizabeth's. :)

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Greenwich/Woolwich. - Clowting. Davis. Kitts. Ferguson. Lowther. Carvalho. Pressman. Redknap. Argent.
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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #8 on: Friday 15 December 06 22:46 GMT (UK) »
No one calls their new daughter Myra anymore probably because of Myra Hindley

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