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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #18 on: Friday 20 September 13 23:06 BST (UK) »
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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #19 on: Friday 20 September 13 23:08 BST (UK) »
I found one while doing my daughter in law's tree yesterday which I'm rather partial to, and that is 'Phineas Fox'.     Not outrageously different, but he sounds like a bit of a dandy to me.

Are you by any chance looking at Folkestone - if so I think we may have a link.
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Tagg, Bowyer (Berkshire/Surrey), Adams, Small, Pratt, Coles, Stevens, Cox (Bucks), Grocott, Slater, Dean, Hill (Staffs/Shropshire), Holloway, Flint, Warrington,Turnbull (London), Montague, Barrett (Herts), Hayward (Kent), Gallon, Knight, Ede, Tribe, Bunn, Northeast, Nicholds (Sussex) Penduck, Pinnell, Yeeles (Gloucs), Johns (Monmouth and Devon), Head (Bath), Tedbury, Bowyer (Somerset), Chapman, Barrett (Herts/Essex)

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #20 on: Friday 20 September 13 23:23 BST (UK) »
Phosporus married in Stepney 1866, could have been the Phosibris who died n 1897 (not an ancestor of mine though).

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 21 September 13 00:28 BST (UK) »
Off the top of my head -
Joyce Ethelwynne Jennings-Temple (usually just Temple though)
William Attwooll Bennett (whosr son also the same name married Elizabeth Bennett Graves - becoming Elizabeth Bennett Bennett!)
John Warin Wilders Rose
Those are the first to spring to mind!

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JENNINGS (-TEMPLE) - Kent/Msex/Berks; BENNETT - Dorset/Msex; ROSE - Notts/Lincs; MURRAY - Essex; METHLEY - Yorks; BIRCH - Kent; BRYDEN - Lancs/Stirl; MCGREGOR - Stirl/Perth; BROADLEY- Lancs; HUDSON - Mon/Durh; ROWLEY - Denb/Durh; PRICE - Mon; BERRY - Mon/Devon


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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 21 September 13 00:56 BST (UK) »
I have several generations of Francis Drake Waldron Wheatons in my tree!

Also a couple of Baron Beverleys
Wainwright - Yorkshire
Whitney - Herefordshire
Watson -  Northamptonshire
Trant - Yorkshire
Helps - all
Needham - Derbyshire
Waterhouse - Derbyshire
Northing - all

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #23 on: Saturday 21 September 13 01:32 BST (UK) »
Alas, not an ancestor of mine but I did know an Illinois Central J******.  His father worked for the railroad.  No doubt he's someone's ancestor by now.
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: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #24 on: Saturday 21 September 13 09:04 BST (UK) »
I have King Fisher and Queen Fisher.

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #25 on: Saturday 21 September 13 09:19 BST (UK) »
Willie Eckerslike, now there's a good Yorkshire name that sadly, is not t'be found in my family tree  ;D
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 #26 on: Saturday 21 September 13 16:50 BST (UK) »
My g/g/grandfather's 2nd wife - Caroline Easter Reffell.

Quite ordinary after some of the above - they made me smile as much as the "old sayings."