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Offline Indaloman

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Weird Forename
« on: Wednesday 23 April 08 10:01 BST (UK) »
Has anyone come across the name of Mister before? I have an ancestor called Mister Mister Hancox!
Knight (Nottingham & Hants) Hancock, (Kent) , Hancox (Warwickshire), Linneys (Hants) Brothers (Langford, Beds,East London), Bridgers (East London)

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Re: Weird Forename
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 23 April 08 11:43 BST (UK) »
There's a book called "Potty, Fartwell and Knob" by Russell Ash, full of names like these. We think some people give their children strange names now, but some of the past ones in this book border on cruelty.  :o
Ambrose; Llandilofawr, Pennsylvania.
Grindley; Llandilofawr, Ohio, Louisiana, Washington DC.
Rees(e); Pennsylvania.
Lewis, Llandilofawr.

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Re: Weird Forename
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 23 April 08 12:01 BST (UK) »
Thanks BevBee

Its boring having a name like Paul! My 2nd GGrandchild should have arrived by now, being delivered today. I am hoping that if a boy, Benjamin is squeezed in as my father was the last, he died 2 years ago age 95, and we have had a Ben in every generation,
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Re: Weird Forename
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 23 April 08 13:09 BST (UK) »
I have a Major White (GGGGGG Grandfather) who married 4 times.  Haven't found his birth though.  Would it have been a less unusual forename back then?

Andrew


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Re: Weird Forename
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 23 April 08 14:01 BST (UK) »
I heard a woman on the radio today and her first name was O'Hara. I also knew of someone called Sydney Hobart
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Re: Weird Forename
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 23 April 08 15:07 BST (UK) »
One of my ancestors has the forename PASHON as his third name. No idea why, none of the other siblings have any unusual names.

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Re: Weird Forename
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 23 April 08 17:01 BST (UK) »
I know someone who was named, poor soul, Marus Auraleus!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Weird Forename
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 23 April 08 17:30 BST (UK) »
I have a Major White (GGGGGG Grandfather) who married 4 times.  Haven't found his birth though.  Would it have been a less unusual forename back then?

Andrew

Don't know if it was less unusual but I've got a Major King in my tree, born c.1827 in Lincolnshire.  He had a son also named Major, and a grandson named Agamemnon.  The others in the family have fairly normal names, although Agamemnon had a brother George V. King, but as he was born c.1881, well before George V was crowned or even expected to be King I'm not sure if they meant it as that or not.  Whatever, I've always assumed the family had a bit of a sense of humour.  :)

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Re: Weird Forename
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 23 April 08 18:35 BST (UK) »
I came across a Sinister Wheeldon.  So glad he wasn't one of mine  ;)

Have a look at some of the names on the RC board relating to travelling families there are some great/very unusual names but probably not unusual to the travelling folk.
Wheeldon  Derbyshire & Manchester
Willshaw Staffordshire & Manchester
Wilshaw Staffordshire & Manchester
Pugh Manchester, Haston, Hadwell, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Patrick Coventry, Warwick, Foleshill
Kelly Dronmore County Down & Manchester
Stewart  Hilsborough County Down & Manchester
Moffatt/Moffitt County May &, Lancashire