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Offline pinefamily

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #90 on: Friday 01 March 19 05:26 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: barryd on Friday 01 March 19 01:58 GMT (UK)
FREAK and variants. Free BMD starts the name off in Bethnal Green, London in September 1837. It gets into Weardale County Durham in 1845 with an Ann Freak and it stays in County Durham and links up with me there.
The name Freke is from the West Country I believe. A collateral ancestor of mine was Henry Freke Palmer.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #91 on: Friday 01 March 19 08:59 GMT (UK) »
I have surname Blackbird on mine.  I think they mainly from Durham area
Ferguson (st fillans, comrie)
Garnock (lothian, fife)
Valet (london, switzerland)
Butcher (ramsgate, glasgow)
Blackbird (durham,  newcastle)
Barr (ayrshire, ireland)
Fleming (paisley)
Crone, croney ,(dumfriesshire, ireland)

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #92 on: Friday 01 March 19 09:06 GMT (UK) »
I have two -
HERWEG - German from Woltwiesche near Braunschweig. Meaning - "near the military road".
PATILLO - sounds Italian but its Scottish derived from PITTILLOCK and has a large number of forms - Pattillo, Pitello, Pattillow etc. Large numbers in and around Perthshire.

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CECIL - DNA, GILBERT-ShirehamptonEng-Vic/Australia,HERWEG-WoltwiescheGERmany-Vic/Aust,CREIGHTON-Donegal-NI,Gosforth/CumbriaEng-Vic/Aust,MCCLURE-Cloghroe/KillynureDonegal NI,Vic/Aust,PATULLO-StMadoesPerthshire-Vic/Aust,NICHOLAS-Nth CheritonEng/Vic Aust,COX-ShirehamptonEng,FORD-MidsomerNortonEng,THOMAS-Pilton/Devon,EDWARDS-Bristol/Eng,BOND-Norfolk,NAU-Germany,SINGLETON-MuncasterEng,LADLAY-GosforthEng,JOHNSTONE-BalmerinoFife, TEMPLE-StranorlarNI,CRAIGIE,HALL,HANNAM,GINGELL,HALE,OSMAN,HARVEY,ALLEN.

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #93 on: Friday 01 March 19 10:06 GMT (UK) »
Wemyss of that Ilk (The first one made up the name so I guess we'd all be related, Scotland)

Glessel (German or something?? but living in England)

Flucker (bad spelling for Flockhart?? Scotland)

Grandistone (I have no idea, Scotland, can't even google the origins)

Posse (Swan Posse after a scandal, England. Can't really hide if your surname was Posse)

Brownrigg (thought it was a made up surname but no, actually existed, England)

Wemyss/Crombie/Laing/Blyth (West Wemyss)
Givens/Normand (Dysart)
Clark/Lister (Dysart)
Wilkinson/Simson (Kettle or Kettlehill)

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #94 on: Friday 01 March 19 13:25 GMT (UK) »
"Flucker (bad spelling for Flockhart?? Scotland)"

I know of Fleuchar (Perthshire)...If you use Fl**ch*r* & Floc*ar* (wild cards allowed) option it will bring a few variants up

"Grandistone"

I know of Grandison (Fife)...use Gran*s*n* for variants

Leave areas out for full coverage of both

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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 #95 on: Friday 01 March 19 13:29 GMT (UK) »
Blacksell -769,286th Most Common Surname  Approximately 367 people bear this surname

Hatherell/Hatherall - 717,078th Most Common Surname Approximately 404people bear this surname

Corbell - 237,862nd Most Common Surname Approximately 1,675 people bear this surname

Gibbins - 63,365th Most Common Surname Approximately 8,010 people bear this surname

Inwood - 119,099th Most Common Surname Approximately 3,863 people bear this surname

Clayfield - 437,371st Most Common Surname Approximately 778 people bear this surname


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

Brickwalls-   Schumann, Simpson,Westmacott/Wennicot
Scott, Cronin
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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #96 on: Friday 01 March 19 21:07 GMT (UK) »
I forgot my Fright family  ;D
And at one time I thought I had an Elizabeth Hooker in my tree (wrongly, as it turned out).  Try looking that up on Google   ;D ;D

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Weedon - Hertfordshire and W. Australia
Herbertson, Congalton, Paterson - Scotland
Reed, Elmer - Hunts.
Branson - Bucks. and Birmingham
Warren, Ball, Jones - Birmingham
Fuller, Bourne, Sheepwash - Kent
Brittain - Beds. and W. Australia

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #97 on: Friday 01 March 19 22:24 GMT (UK) »
Distance
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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #98 on: Friday 01 March 19 23:10 GMT (UK) »
Eatough/Aitalgh/Etock and other spellings, Lancs
Elsegood Norfolk
Kingma, Geldmaker, Oosterhoorn van Weerdenburgh and many others
Broadley (Lancs all dates and Halifax bef 1654)
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