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Offline lmw22

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #45 on: Sunday 01 July 07 23:17 BST (UK) »
Today I added Ong.

Lynnck
Lincolnshire - Walker, Miller, Carpenter, Sharp, Bratley, Cartwright, Gibson, Harrop, Clarke, Jessop
Suffolk - Last. Miller, Godbold, Theobald, Pi(y)ke, Collins, Hill, Gaught, Sharman, Pilbrow, Taylor, Soans
Leicestershire & Rutland - Pollard
Hertfordshire - Claridge, Ewington, Cadwell, Hill, Jervis, Westwood, Goodge, Wootley, Welldon, Ebbs
Hertfordshire & Bedfordshire- Fuller, Barton
Norfolk - Plow
Ewington - Hertfordshire
Co Galway - Cadwell
Norfolk, London & Bedfordshire - Rawson

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #46 on: Tuesday 10 July 07 18:22 BST (UK) »
The most unusual ones on mine are Catterall, Chisnall, Christian, Glazebrook, Goose, Jarrard (derivative of Gerrard), Lambourne, Sellenger and Wharf...not as unusal as some folks have posted, but unusual to a tree that's populated on the whole with some fairly run of the mill names... :)
Dwyer - Rathangan Ireland
Loughran - Armagh
Gillespie -  Armagh
Rigby - Wigan
Finch - Preston
Crompton - Aspull, Farnworth
Gerrard - Wigan, Bolton, Westhoughton
Grime - Blackburn, Bolton, Hindley Green

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #47 on: Thursday 12 July 07 18:48 BST (UK) »
Mine are

Ilett
Pharo
Brinsley

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #48 on: Thursday 12 July 07 23:06 BST (UK) »
Surname   Count   Ranking
 HYWOOD    26    =76659

urname   Count   Ranking
 FAUTLEY    233    =19323

Fowtrell not on list
LON:Banks,Bennett,Cane,Diggins,Elsey,Fautley,Gotobed,Huckle,Hutson,Hywood,Lane,Monk,Owen,Pankhursts,Proud,Sigger/s,Stacey,Voller,Woods
Berk:White, Turner,Parsons
Beds:Channer
Camb:Claydon,Hazelwood,King, Claiden,Forman, Collins
Essex:Sigger/s,Cook
Hampshire: Voller
Kent: Busbridge,Fletcher,Fowtrell,Hall,Payne,Saunders,Souton
Norfolk:Gayford,Turner,Rush,Knight,Hammond
Somerset:Marshman
Surrey:Denyer,Monk
Sussex:Hill/s, Davey,Saunders
Wales:Walters

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #49 on: Friday 13 July 07 14:24 BST (UK) »
To Prue M, I notice you have the surname MORRISH (Ldn) on your list, so do I. Moors
Jeffery Kent Moors Kent/Mddx. Gulley Mddx Bennett Southwark/Devon  Hart Cobham Surrey/Brighton
Bubb Berks/Bucks  Jeffs/Staffs  Baines/Notts  Lambert/Lincs  West/Spinks & Dey-Dye/Norfolk Morrish/Stoke Newington Mddx. Lovell/ Hackney,Shoreditch Blackshaw Clerkenwell/Rotherhithe,. Day& Downer I.O.W. Harknett Essex. Gulley Westminster. Sealey Norfolk. Newling Cambridge/Essex/Herts. Hughes Aldershot/South London. Hartgroves Essex.

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #50 on: Friday 13 July 07 15:05 BST (UK) »
just looked and I have :

 the surname Ghersinich, and   Tiggerdene 1980' so not puting full name
 
Traill Goar
Barbara Groat
James Delick Stewart
James Inrig
Ann Kirkness
Sally Moar
Isoble Orkney
Allan Paplay
Mary Swaney



ORKNEY
FLETT, CLOUSTON,  WHISHART, SCOTT, BRUCE,
ABERDEEN AREA:THOMSON, ROSIE, CHAFFEY, ALLAN,               
GLASGOW;STEWART,  SPENCE,  DOUGLAS, BLACK , KEAYS(KEYS), MITCHELL,    JOHNSTON,  FLETT,  ALLAN, CALLAGHAN, JENKS,FINLAY,SMELLIE,TYSON

MORAYSHIRE: ALLAN, INNES, MCPHAIL, MATHEWS, STEWART, MCKENZIE, MCLEAN, PLOWMAN, MASSON, 
IRELAND:DOUGLAS,BLACK,McAULAY,KEAYS,TWEED,MITCHELL,
 ENGLAND: JENKS, WALKER,BALDWIN, HURST,PHILLIPS, CHAFFEY, ROBERTSON, ALLAN;JOHNSON, AMEY,Corston,Race

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #51 on: Friday 13 July 07 15:46 BST (UK) »
My Most Uncommon Name is my own :o... COLGAN 
It's not as amusing as some in this thread but I'm the only one on this site :'( , I think it's because we were not prolific  :D.
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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #52 on: Sunday 15 July 07 14:25 BST (UK) »
I have the surnames:

Popham: Count = 948, Ranking = 6907
Golild: Not on Site
Cole/Hayden - Chilbolton, Hampshire, England
Higgins - Pembrokeshire, Wales
Popham - Bideford, Devonshire, England
Burness - Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland
Troy - Ireland
Christie - Scotland
Campbell - Scotland
Ross - Scotland
Brand - Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland
Watson - Scotland
Rundmann - Taschendorf, Prussia, Germany
Schonfeldt - Prussia
Gurowski - Prussia
Martin - Cork, Ireland
Roberts - Yorkshire, England
Kemp - England

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #53 on: Sunday 15 July 07 17:52 BST (UK) »
I have TRIGGER,  count = 340  ranking =15030

Betty
KENT:
Stutely - Wittersham & Stone
Padgham - Wittersham
Wanstall - Northbourne
Taylor - Ringwould & Ash
Skinner - Deal
Bushell - Walmer
Spain - Walmer
Also
Schloss - Poland, Nottingham, Massachusetts & New Zealand.
Cohen - Birmingham

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