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Offline Helen D

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #90 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 09:54 GMT (UK) »
I did exactly the same Nutkin. I called my baby Gemma 21 years ago - had only met 1 before. I must have been moving in the wrong circles. A little 3 year old called Gemma informed me she had 4 Gemmas at her preschool!! when I took new baby to clinic ::)

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Dowdell, Pressley, Snook, Read, Hurle, Small, Cannings .....  Wiltshire
Fitzgerald, Greenhill .... London
Thursfield, Newey, Berrisford, Wood, Hulme ..... Warwickshire/Staffordshire
Ditchfield, Unsworth, Clarke, Perrin, Orrett .... Cheshire/Lancs
Jones ..... N Wales

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #91 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 10:38 GMT (UK) »
Don't you think thats goes for most things in life though,as soon as you have something, the world and his wife seem to have it also, we bought a brand new car last year, I choose a colour which I had hardly seen before and bingo, now every other one is the same as ours. ::) ::) ::)

I was looking yesterday at the top names for boys and girls, neither of mine are on it but then they go in fads.
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« Reply #92 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 11:30 GMT (UK) »
The fads tend to where you live also. When my son was born, we named him Liam -- not very common in the States but not unheard of. I personally didn't know anyone named that. Bam, there were two or three babies named Liam. We moved to another state and he is the only one here with that name.

When we had our daughter, we picked Molly. Didn't know anyone with that name. Last year, in her small prek class, there was another one, plus 2 more in the nursery school. And there is one down the street from us and two grown ladies in our town called that. I still love it, though, so quite happy with my choices.   :) :)

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Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA

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« Reply #93 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 11:45 GMT (UK) »
Thats the most improtant thing,   ;) I wonder if there are many if any that do regret the names they chose for thier children ??? we have a rellie that has a Molly too. ;)
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« Reply #94 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 11:45 GMT (UK) »
Oh we Rootchatters are such trendsetters!  ;D

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Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk<br />Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk<br />Harrison: London; Pollock<br />Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx<br />Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk<br />Rogers: London; Bartlett: London<br />Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants<br />Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London

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« Reply #95 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 11:49 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: patrish on Wednesday 20 December 06 11:45 GMT (UK)
I wonder if there are many if any that do regret the names they chose for thier children ???

If Liam had been a girl he was going to be Cassidy. I am so glad he wasn't a girl. I think I would have regretted that. It seems so trendy to me now.
Sligo: Davey (also Mayo), McCluskey, McNulty
Wexford and Staffordshire: Hayes, McClean
Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
Davis from I don't know where originally
Stahl, Russia to England to USA

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Re: Names you just don't see anymore
« Reply #96 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 12:02 GMT (UK) »
I always wanted a girl but it was not to be, if I had, I would have called her Zoe  Emily still love those now even now.. :) :)
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« Reply #97 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 12:19 GMT (UK) »
One of my Grandfathers brothers was named Aeldred,sounds like a Saxon name :D :D
stoke on trent. carson,wain,leese,shaw,key,scalley,mitchell,<br />james,<br /> nottingham,pollard,grice,<br />derbyshire,vallands,turton,howe.<br /> new zealand,turton<br /> canada,carson.<br />australia,mitchell,scalley,<br />

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« Reply #98 on: Wednesday 20 December 06 12:30 GMT (UK) »
Brock: Alburgh, Norfolk, and after 1850, London; Tooley: Norfolk<br />Grimmer: Norfolk; Grimson: Norfolk<br />Harrison: London; Pollock<br />Dixon: Hampshire; Collins: Middx<br />Jeary: Norfolk; Davison: Norfolk<br />Rogers: London; Bartlett: London<br />Drew: Kent; Alden: Hants<br />Gamble: Yorkshire; Huntingford: East London

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