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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #54 on: Wednesday 09 October 13 17:46 BST (UK) »
A diminutive of Frances as we know, just as well we do not hear the same from names such as Richard although who remembers that wonderful man Dickie Bird.... even though his first name was Harold!
Allanby's, Thompson's and Pannett's of Leeds and Tadcaster.
Streeter's and Kent's of Croydon.
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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #55 on: Wednesday 09 October 13 19:25 BST (UK) »
A diminutive of Frances as we know, just as well we do not hear the same from names such as Richard although who remembers that wonderful man Dickie Bird.... even though his first name was Harold!
Certainly a diminutive as you say, but both mine were registered as Fanny.
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BEATON - Isle of Mull
GODDEN - Ruckinge, Kent

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #56 on: Wednesday 09 October 13 20:03 BST (UK) »
A diminutive of Frances as we know, just as well we do not hear the same from names such as Richard although who remembers that wonderful man Dickie Bird.... even though his first name was Harold!
Certainly a diminutive as you say, but both mine were registered as Fanny.

Ah right, never knew that but of course if you have found it in your research it must have been.
Off to kick myself in the derrière  :D
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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 #57 on: Wednesday 09 October 13 20:25 BST (UK) »
Not an ancestor but the vicar performing the baptism

Rev T Shurt


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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #58 on: Thursday 10 October 13 07:35 BST (UK) »
Not an ancestor but the vicar performing the baptism

Rev T Shurt

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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 #59 on: Monday 14 October 13 14:23 BST (UK) »
Sadly most in my tree are pretty "normal" but I remember a name from the staff directory at work years ago who would be a great "relative" - his name was Bob Sherunkle!

I think that one was probably a spurious entry introduced by a mischievous staff directory compiler (who was probably bored out of his or her mind at the time ... )
All identified names up to and including my great x5 grandparents: Abbot Andrews Baker Blenc(h)ow Brothers Burrows Chambers Clifton Cornwell Escott Fisher Foster Frost Giddins Groom Hardwick Harris Hart Hayho(e) Herman Holcomb(e) Holmes Hurley King-Spooner Martindale Mason Mitchell Murphy Neves Oakey Packman Palmer Peabody Pearce Pettit(t) Piper Pottenger Pound Purkis Rackliff(e) Richardson Scotford Sherman Sinden Snear Southam Spooner Stephenson Varing Weatherley Webb Whitney Wiles Wright

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #60 on: Tuesday 15 October 13 12:11 BST (UK) »
If anyone wants to see lots of funny/interesting/unusual names, there is a paperback book called "Potty, Fartwell & Knob - Extraordinary but True Names of British People".

It was a Xmas gift a couple of years ago and I often dip into - I find it informative, interesting and very funny.  The name are mainly from the 19th century or earlier, many were found in census records and parish records (the sources are shown).

Some names contain words that some may find rude or offensive. It just shows how some words have changed over the years and have different meanings or interpretations nowadays.

Well worth a look if you're interested in this subject though.
 
Malcolm
Wood(s) – Lancashire/Clayton-le-Moors & Sawley (orig. W.Yorkshire 1841)
Thornley, Heyes – Lancashire/Clayton-le-Moors
Emmett – Lancashire/Chorley, Blackburn
Nightingale, Livesey, Warburton, Gorton – Lancashire/Blackburn, Darwen
Kilshaw - Lancaster
Mahoney – Oswaldtwistle, Ireland
Brennan – E.Lancs., Tipperary

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #61 on: Saturday 19 October 13 18:06 BST (UK) »
I've just found a burial in Uckfield, Sussex in 1780 for a Napkin Martin  ;D
Rogers: Sussex
Sanders/Saunders: Brenchley, Kent
Hales: Navenby, Lincs
Lidbetter: Sussex
Burns: Birmingham/Weston-super-Mare
Gray/Stocks: Weston-super-Mare
Hayden
Aldridge and Aldridge/Hayden
Bubb: Kent
Ward: Notts

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #62 on: Friday 25 October 13 21:30 BST (UK) »
Not too unusual, but I have always liked Ferdinando Dowdeswell.
And my great grandfather's name always seems to roll off of the tongue: Erik Magnus Lundquist.
And for sheer tongue-twisting ability, my great-uncle's wife: Matilda Augusta Bertha Wurfel. Just say it out loud a couple of times and see what I mean.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.