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Offline g eli

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #72 on: Wednesday 27 February 19 22:35 GMT (UK) »
My uncommon ones are
targoose 0 which eventually became  Targus 0
Sollory 18
Tanser 200
Mallison 290
Kidger 357
the variation in spelling doesn.t help.
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Butler Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire
Targoose Lincolnshire : Targus the rest of England
Sollery:Staffordshire & Nottinghamshire
Saunders,  Phillips: Wiltshire
Oldknow: Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire
Hirons or Hiorns: Friswell: Whitmore: Warwickshire
Tanser: Leicestershire & Warwickshire
Kidger: Buxton: Cramp:Leicestershire
Goodall:Griffin: Ford:Minton:Derbyshire
Cormack:Dunn: Scotland
Taylor:Nottinghamshire
Fletcher Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire Staffordshire

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #73 on: Wednesday 27 February 19 22:44 GMT (UK) »
Mine are:
Coveyduck
Noseworthy

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CAPES Hull. KIRK  Leeds, Hull. JONES  Wales,  Lancashire. CARROLL Ireland, Lancashire, U.S.A. BROUGHTON Leicester, Goole, Hull BORRILL  Lincolnshire, Durham, Hull. GROOM  Wishbech, Hull. ANTHONY St. John's Nfld. BUCKNALL Lincolnshire, Hull. BUTT Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. PARSONS  Western Bay, Newfoundland. MONAGHAN  Ireland, U.S.A. PERRY Cheshire, Liverpool.
 
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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #74 on: Wednesday 27 February 19 23:06 GMT (UK) »
I have a couple with the surname Twelftree. One was a publican and I can just imagine an inebriated person trying to say that!
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Bateman, Baylis, Bellotti, Boag, Bower (Stillgebauer), Cattermole, Chester, Dullage, Felix, French, Fursse, Garrett, Gilbert, Harding, Haynes, Hazelwood, Plume, Putland, Rudge, Strickson, Vine, Warren, Whitehead, Whitehorn, Wiltshire, Youthed and many more

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #75 on: Wednesday 27 February 19 23:14 GMT (UK) »
I have an ancestor's sibling who wed a man with the surname Puddephatt.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #76 on: Wednesday 27 February 19 23:17 GMT (UK) »
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Genealogy-Its a family thing

Paternal: Gibbins,McNamara, Jenkins, Schumann,  Inwood, Sheehan, Quinlan, Tierney, Cole

Maternal: Munn, Simpson , Brighton, Clayfield, Westmacott, Corbell, Hatherell, Blacksell/Blackstone, Boothey , Muirhead

Son: Bull, Kneebone, Lehmann, Cronin, Fowler, Yates, Biglands, Rix, Carpenter, Pethick, Carrick, Male, London, Jacka, Tilbrook, Scott, Hampshire, Buckley

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #77 on: Wednesday 27 February 19 23:22 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: davidft on Wednesday 27 February 19 22:30 GMT (UK)
Her home page says she was last on the site in 2013, so on that basis I would say you are unlikely to hear from her.

Thanks for pointing this out to me. I'm new on this board and didn't think to look that up :-)

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #78 on: Wednesday 27 February 19 23:43 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Treetotal on Wednesday 27 February 19 22:44 GMT (UK)
Noseworthy

Carol, I have a Noseworthy (Canadian) although not direct line.

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South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #79 on: Wednesday 27 February 19 23:44 GMT (UK) »
I have the following in my two trees:-

Surname       Count  Ranking
BORASTON     153    =25297
BURRASTON     60    =45461
GENNER           346   =14845
ALKER              913      =7118
PASSEY          1328     =5243
KYNASTON    1249     =5523
MELLING        3730       2148

The Boraston/Burraston and other variations total less than 2000 people in the 1841-1911 England & Wales census.
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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #80 on: Thursday 28 February 19 15:11 GMT (UK) »
The uncommon surnames aren't the problem for me, it's the common ones that are a pain in the neck to disentangle!
Threlfall (Southport), Isherwood (lancs & Canada), Newbould + Topliss(Derby), Keating & Cummins (Ireland + lancs), Fisher, Strong& Casson (all Cumberland) & Downie & Bowie, Linlithgow area Scotland . Also interested in Leigh& Burrows,(Lancashire) Griffiths (Shropshire & lancs), Leaver (Lancs/Yorks) & Anderson(Cumberland and very elusive)
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