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Offline harewoodhouse

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #261 on: Sunday 17 June 07 06:23 BST (UK) »
 ;D  we have a
tobias
albion
cornelius
reginald
edwin
antonnette agnes
joan
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cooke's, harrop's, jackson's, hamer's, walkers
wragg's, brown's, pickersgill, worstencroft,cavanah's

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #262 on: Sunday 17 June 07 21:55 BST (UK) »
i went to school with an edwin - just a few years ago - i had the hots for him lol
The names that Iv found that just arent around anymore are:
Fanny - obvious reasons!
Hephzhiba - jewish
Levinnia

cant think of any ens names that are unusal in my tree - all john's and james'

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #263 on: Monday 18 June 07 00:06 BST (UK) »
In my tree:

Constance (my grandmother)
Celestine (my grandfather)
Queenie
Millicent
Job
Gladys
Betsey
Elijah
Amos
Neville
Dave

OK, maybe the last one isn't odd :D
Derby: WOODCOCK (Donnington)
Devon: HARRIS (Plymouth)
Lancashire: DERRICK
Lincolnshire: CROPPER, WOODCOCK (Boston)
London: BARKER, DUGGIN, HARRIS, HINTON, HULBERT, WHITE
Wales: HARRIS, PRITCHARD (Pembrokeshire)
Warwickshire: DERRICK, WOODCOCK
Desperate for my Woodcocks from Birmingham!

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #264 on: Tuesday 19 June 07 00:48 BST (UK) »
I have a Grahame in my tree, nothing strange about that you might say.

Grahame was my GT. Gt. Grandmother.

I also have an aunt called Emmaline.

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #265 on: Tuesday 19 June 07 00:57 BST (UK) »

My father was Aubrey.

These days the Aubreys I see in Birth Announcements tend to be female.

I don't think it is a particularly rare name but he is the only real live person I have ever known to be called that.

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Lancashire and Cheshire: Harding, Turner, Gandy, Rigby, Bancroft, Moorcroft, Wright
Wiltshire: Webb, Hayter, Mussell, Curtice, Sheppard
Hampshire: Harper, Rawlings
Ireland: Revels, Qua, Alexander, Clegg
Bucks, Northants, Derby, Leicester and Cheshire: Spokes, Glover, Sturgess, Attewell, Whiting, Lester, Hall

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #266 on: Tuesday 19 June 07 02:35 BST (UK) »
 ;D  just came accross  some good ones 
frezider...a girls middle name
francis betsey...a boys name :'( bet he got gip for that
bartholomew
theodosia
poor kids they all came from the same family :o
cooke's, harrop's, jackson's, hamer's, walkers
wragg's, brown's, pickersgill, worstencroft,cavanah's

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #267 on: Tuesday 19 June 07 03:07 BST (UK) »
I was doing a look up for someone yesterday and came across Aquilla (male), not seen that before and Francella (girl) although I think the transcription may have been a little out as it looked more like Priscilla to me!

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DUR-Bainbridge,Hodgson,Richardson,Walker,Thompson,Armory,Wynn,Humble,Dunn,Chapman,Herin
YKS-Bradley,Hellawell,Dransfield,Sanderson,Gledhill,Mallinson,Tyas,Thornton,Nobel,Brook,Senior,Bower,Kay,Hirst,Smith,Lockwood, Clayton,Rollinson,Swallow
NTHNTS-Hubbard,Line,Goate,Tyler,Weed,Warren,Brown,Hollowell,Bird,Kirby,Dolby,Gilbert,Wootton
NFK-Burton,Myhill,Fisher,Thompson
LNRK-Neilson,Dudson,Forrest,McNight,Paterson
WL-Williams

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #268 on: Tuesday 19 June 07 08:48 BST (UK) »
Hi Legs

Acquilla and Priscilla were a couple of church members in the Christian New Testament who came to a bad end for lying (and fraud?). Pretty names but I'm not sure I'd want my kids saddled with that legacy  ;D

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Especially looking for - Sealey, Rogers, Cannings, Box, Sheppard in Wiltshire; Virgin, Slade, Abbott, Saint, Harper, Silverthorn in Somerset; and Virgin, Tarr, Beer in Devon

And most especially the origins of William Cannings,  a Baptist, born abt 1791 in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #269 on: Tuesday 19 June 07 10:35 BST (UK) »
Ohhh no me either, didn't know that.  Although I do quite like Aquilla, but I don't think I could name a child that, maybe my next pet!!! :) 

Also found a Pharoah (male) today too.

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DUR-Bainbridge,Hodgson,Richardson,Walker,Thompson,Armory,Wynn,Humble,Dunn,Chapman,Herin
YKS-Bradley,Hellawell,Dransfield,Sanderson,Gledhill,Mallinson,Tyas,Thornton,Nobel,Brook,Senior,Bower,Kay,Hirst,Smith,Lockwood, Clayton,Rollinson,Swallow
NTHNTS-Hubbard,Line,Goate,Tyler,Weed,Warren,Brown,Hollowell,Bird,Kirby,Dolby,Gilbert,Wootton
NFK-Burton,Myhill,Fisher,Thompson
LNRK-Neilson,Dudson,Forrest,McNight,Paterson
WL-Williams
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