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Great names!
« on: Monday 23 February 09 22:41 GMT (UK) »
A lot of the names I come across whilst doing my census searches make me groan - all those Gertrude Mauds, for example.

But today I found someone with a wonderful name! Jemima Raspberry was not a relative of mine but was in the same household as my lot. Jemima Raspberry - she could be a wonderful character in a childrens' book, couldn't she!

What wonderful names have you all found?

Bradbury (Sedgeley, Bilston, Warrington)
Cooper (Sedgeley, Bilston)
Kilner/Kilmer (Leic, Notts)
Greenfield (Liverpool)
Holyland (Anywhere and everywhere, also Holiland Holliland Hollyland)
Pryce/Price (Welshpool, Liverpool)
Rawson (Leicester)
Upton (Desford, Leics)
Partrick (Vera and George, Leicester)
Marshall (Westmorland, Cheshire/Leicester)

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Re: Great names!
« Reply #1 on: Monday 23 February 09 22:47 GMT (UK) »
The other day I found a Westminister [sic] Abby and his son, Westminister, Jr. in Brooklyn, NY in 1860.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: Great names!
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 24 February 09 07:58 GMT (UK) »
i found a fxnny panton in the cumnor P R
regards neil
kenny from ireland befre moveing to north shields  flaxen/flexon from cumnor then sunderland robinson from rothbury then north shields urqhart somewhere in scotland then sunderland

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Re: Great names!
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 24 February 09 11:20 GMT (UK) »
I've just had a Spinks Claypole enter my tree, I just love the name Spinks  :D :D :D
Nash, Whittingham - Wolverhampton<br />Nash, Whittingham, Pardoe, Cartwright - Worcs<br />Osbaldeston, Kay, Wyles, - Preston, Lancs<br />Dippnall, Poulton, Burton, Dawes - Manchester/Salford<br />McPoland, Tildesley, Iveson, Fox - Lancashire North Of The Sands
Wild, - Claughton, Lancashire
Kay, - Longridge, Chipping, Ribchester

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Re: Great names!
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 24 February 09 11:38 GMT (UK) »
This theme has cropped up before. I like the Scottish habit of naming daughters after the men in the family and so creating the likes of Jamesina. I have yet to come across one, in my tree, which appeals to me more than my Gordonetta Forsyth. :)
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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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Re: Great names!
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 24 February 09 19:49 GMT (UK) »
My most unusual is my 1st cousin twice removed Joseph Snowball Caswell named afetr his mother Elizabeth Ann Snowball but my true favourite is gt gran Christiana Sophia Amey.

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Caswell - Durham(Jarrow), Northumberland(Berwick), Dorset(Netherbury)
Drury - Middlesex(Kensington), Shropshire(Oswestry/Selattyn)
Turner - Dorset(Parkstone)
Speight - Essex(Braintree), Kent(Gravesend), Westmorland(Kendal)
Stockley - Dorset(Corfe Castle)
Amey - Suffolk(Haverhill)
Cousins - Norfolk(Ketteringham)
Sears - Bedfordshire(Potton), Cambridgeshire(Gamlingay)
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Re: Great names!
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 24 February 09 20:04 GMT (UK) »
I have an Abraham Bendyback or Vendyback, sometimes known as Bendy as well. I think that the name probably comes from the Dutch 'Van de Beck'. I've also come across a Frysweed Quartermain (unfortunately not closely related to me!) Apparently Frysweed was an Oxford saint.

Slightly more exciting that my husband's ancestors.....I've just managed to wade my way through 4 generations of John Smiths!
Perry families of Ireland (www.irishperrys.com)
Vendyback family of Medbourne, Leicestershire
Van de Becks of Thorney, Cambridgeshire
Quartermain of Oxfordshire

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Re: Great names!
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 24 February 09 20:31 GMT (UK) »
My gg grandmother's brother married a girl called Tamer Wilding - puts me in mind of a Bronte or Thomas Hardy heroine  :)

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Re: Great names!
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 24 February 09 22:29 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: vickifperry on Tuesday 24 February 09 20:04 GMT (UK)
Apparently Frysweed was an Oxford saint.

Usually spelt Frideswide, and pronounced as it looks:  Frides-wide.  Not much better! if at all!  :)

PS - I came across a Comfort Dash the other day.  I'm sure we all know the feeling well  ;D
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