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Offline thumperrabbit

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Help with surname
« on: Thursday 09 May 13 07:19 BST (UK) »
Can anyone decipher this surname please?

Rankine - Airth
Blades - Cumbernauld
White - Cumbernauld
Lamberty - Mauritius
Hardy - Armagh
Knowles - Aberdeen
Hancock - Wolstanton
Marshall - Cumbernauld
Sinclair - Falkirk

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Re: Help with surname
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 09 May 13 07:24 BST (UK) »
I would say Pearey

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Re: Help with surname
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 09 May 13 07:55 BST (UK) »
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Re: Help with surname
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 09 May 13 08:49 BST (UK) »
Pearcy?
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Help with surname
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 09 May 13 08:53 BST (UK) »
Pearcy?

Got some Percy/Piercy/Pearcy/Piercey in my family!!  Very confusing.  When and where does this record come from??

Wiggy
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Help with surname
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 09 May 13 09:11 BST (UK) »
Because of the P being slightly unusual I checked FreeBMD and saw that Pearey seems to be predominate in the north/north-east of England. 

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Re: Help with surname
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 09 May 13 09:17 BST (UK) »
I agree with Liz & Wiggy - Pearcy - the second letter looks more like c than e - less of a loop.

Best wishes

Maria  :)
GOATER, LAN, ALL
BOURKE, MAYO/ LAN
LONERGAN, TIP
McGREAL, MAYO
FLAHERTY, GALWAY/ ALL
HOUGH, LAN/ ALL

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Re: Help with surname
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 09 May 13 09:29 BST (UK) »

Quote from: miriamkinga on Thursday 09 May 13 09:17 BST (UK)
I agree with Liz & Wiggy - Pearcy - the second letter looks more like c than e - less of a loop.

Best wishes

Maria  :)

In full agreement with you and the others, Maria. :)

Pearcy from me too.

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Re: Help with surname
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 09 May 13 10:10 BST (UK) »
Thanks, its a farmer in Edinburgh in 1880's , quite unusual name for that area but could be spelt wrong.

Thanks for everyones help.
Rankine - Airth
Blades - Cumbernauld
White - Cumbernauld
Lamberty - Mauritius
Hardy - Armagh
Knowles - Aberdeen
Hancock - Wolstanton
Marshall - Cumbernauld
Sinclair - Falkirk
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