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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 19:07 BST (UK) »
Doran54 it still makes me laugh even after years.

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 20:18 BST (UK) »
Only the one for me, Keziah. Although on my other half's side Encrichetta Genoveffa Cresci and Maria Assumpta D'Ambrosio takes some beating I reckon!
Allanby's, Thompson's and Pannett's of Leeds and Tadcaster.
Streeter's and Kent's of Croydon.
Cavalli's and Cascarini's of Wales and Italy

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 20:49 BST (UK) »
Here's mine:
1/ Aleida Akka Munninghof,
2/ Alpheus William Skinn,
3/ Mary Elizabeth Sharpe Ripon Spilsbury, (they liked lots of names)  ;D

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Ramsey Ridsdale Ridgway Kempen Knight Harrison Denby Sisson Graney Spilsbury Wain Hebden Abbott Skinn ........ Yorkshire (Doncaster Goole Snaith Thorne area)Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire The Netherlands

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 20:58 BST (UK) »
and mine...

1.  Loveday Goninan

2. Blandina Walter

3. Nighten Jeffery


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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 21:35 BST (UK) »
Miggy Hughes (birth registered in Scotland as Miggy) married as Michael in England
Elsie MLISS Routledge, born 1887, England. Name used in England 1887-1913. Probably named after "Mliss" a novel by Bret Harte, published 1873, in USA.
Admonition Drew, a female

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 18 September 13 22:19 BST (UK) »
Only one for me - Captain Butler Kershaw.

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 19 September 13 09:47 BST (UK) »
I only have two so far; Minnie Cooper and Frances Barnett.

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 19 September 13 10:36 BST (UK) »
Not direct ancestors, but sticking to close relatives, my favourites are Great (x however many) Aunts and a 3rd cousin, a couple of times removed.

Eugenie Dudley
Theodotia Wolverson (later seems to have been known as Rhoda)
Dorinda May Cox

However, on the male side and reflecting my black-country roots, I have an Obadiah, several Enochs,  (Great, x however many, Uncles) and an Eli (not very closely related at all).
McDonough, Oliver, McLoughlin, O'Brien, Cuthbert, Keegan, Quirk(e), O'Malley, McGuirk (Ireland)
Dudley, Winchurch, Wolverson, Brookes (Black Country)
Concannon, Moore, Markowski (Markesky), Mottram, Lawton (Black Country)

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #17 on: Friday 20 September 13 21:29 BST (UK) »
Just the one unusual one for me!
Ethelbert Chitty
Redman, Jupp, Brockhurst of West Sussex
Moore County Down. Redman of Posey, Indiana, USA Emigrated 1820