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Offline Evie

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Re: Great names!
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 25 February 09 00:46 GMT (UK) »
LEONE SEXTON DARYS OSWOLF FRANDALI FILINS (This is his first name) :o
and....
....TOLLEMACHE TOLEMACHE DE ARELLANA PLANTGENET TOLLEM (his surname)

Found whilst searching for a Sexton in 1911.

Wouldn't fancy learning to write that name at school ;D and no chance of getting him mixed up in the census with an identical name.
Booth, Hornsby, Northumberland & Durham
Jackson, Northumberland & Durham
Douthwaite, N Yorks & Durham
Geldard, N Yorks
Ward, Cheshire & W Yorks
Swallow, Boid, W Yorks
Kirby, Lowe, Studholme, Geary, Emery, Baldock

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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 25 February 09 00:54 GMT (UK) »
I've come across him before. See CWGC.  I guess they didn't put his full name on the headstone.  :-\

TOLLEMACHE, LEONE SEXTUS

DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Died 20 Feb 1917, aged 32

Son of the Rev. Ralph William L. Tollemache-Tollemache, M.A., J.P., vicar of South Witham, Lincs and his wife Dora Cleopatra Maria L. Tollemache-Tollemache (nee de Orellana). His brother Leo also fell.

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Re: Great names!
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 25 February 09 01:02 GMT (UK) »
How sad... but interesting. Thanks
Booth, Hornsby, Northumberland & Durham
Jackson, Northumberland & Durham
Douthwaite, N Yorks & Durham
Geldard, N Yorks
Ward, Cheshire & W Yorks
Swallow, Boid, W Yorks
Kirby, Lowe, Studholme, Geary, Emery, Baldock

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Re: Great names!
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 25 February 09 02:31 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.

Paul

I have Snowballs that married into my OH's tree.....I often wondered about the source/root of that particular surname. At present I have found a Jane Snowball Tate and a John Snowball Tate  ;D

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Inishowen: Meenamullaghan (Big Hill), Foffenagh (Rock), Illies and area...mainly McCallion, Doherty, Bradley, Grant, Devlin
Kilmacrenan: Gortnacorrib....Bonner
Scotland: Bonar, Boner Bonner etc
Conwal: Kirkstown.....Toner, Parke
Derry City: Bonner, McGowan, McGilloway, McElwee, Bradley
Omagh: Bradley
Fanad Penninsular, Donegal.....McBride, Friel, Fielty
Sligo: McGowan


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Re: Great names!
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 25 February 09 21:58 GMT (UK) »
To my enormous satisfaction , I have today discovered a distant cousin, b 1891, called ETHELWYN WOODIWISS.

I feel I can conclude my research a happy woman  ;D
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 #14 on: Thursday 26 February 09 16:12 GMT (UK) »
I too have comforts,
Fanny Comfort Fox
and Comfort Fox

My mother's maiden name though is Rosedale. It sounds very nice, and it's rare so I'm managed to trace it quite far back. I just think that's a great name  :)

Lisa.
Flintshire - Hughes, Price, Simon, Messham, Griffiths, Powell, Tattum, Eaton, Roberts, Pownall, James, Enion
Denbighshire - Morris
Cheshire - Walley, Hough, Pridden, Jackson, Lawson, Rosedale, Rigby
Lancashire - Smith, Caunce, Williams, Eaton, Watkinson, As(h)croft, Wilson
Cumbria - Twentyman, Borrow, Bownas, Mitchell
London - Liddell, Wilkes, Hart
Midlands - Smith, Fox, Hopton, Timson

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Re: Great names!
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 26 February 09 18:25 GMT (UK) »
I did have an Ann Browneye which I thought was a lovely name. Sadly it turned out she was actually Brownsey.

Paul
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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« Reply #16 on: Saturday 28 February 09 15:30 GMT (UK) »
I came across a Jeremiah EIGHTSHILLINGS yesterday.  It makes a change ::)
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« Reply #17 on: Saturday 28 February 09 20:57 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. :)

Yes - one of my Grandad's sisters was named Robertina Beattie - but my Mum (and everyone else, it seems!) always referred to her as Aunt Ina! (pronounced "eye-nah")

On hubby's side we have the wonderfully named Everall Holtrum Pepper!  :o
Beattie, Beveridge, Carson, Davidson, Hounam, Johnston,  Purdon, Rae, Stevenson, - Scotland.  Brown, Bulman, Cooke, Harding, Meyers, Osborne, Routledge - England