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Offline Maggie.

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #81 on: Tuesday 26 November 13 16:15 GMT (UK) »
I've only one candidate:-

Haveria Glendonwyn Isherwood.  She was easy to spot through the census records.

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #82 on: Tuesday 26 November 13 16:31 GMT (UK) »
That's a delightful name, Maggie.  I always felt rather drawn to young Britannia Potkins, who is in my late husband's tree.   She was easy to trace too.
Suffolk: Pearl(e),  Garnham, Southgate, Blo(o)mfield,Grimwood/Grimwade,Josselyn/Gosling
Durham/Yorkshire: Sedgwick/Sidgwick, Shadforth
Ireland: Davis
Norway: Torreson/Torsen/Torrison
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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #83 on: Tuesday 26 November 13 20:19 GMT (UK) »
Herbena Lavender.. Is very herbal if you consider the similarity to verbena.  One imagines a flowery cottage garden with mother rocking the cradle and making her lace in the garden  on a summers day.  I wonder if it was really like that.

Parsons.....one wonders where that name came from.

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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #84 on: Tuesday 26 November 13 22:16 GMT (UK) »
What a wonderfully fragrant name Sandra.
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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #85 on: Tuesday 26 November 13 22:22 GMT (UK) »
Herbena Lavender.. Is very herbal if you consider the similarity to verbena.  One imagines a flowery cottage garden with mother rocking the cradle and making her lace in the garden  on a summers day.  I wonder if it was really like that.

I think some days it might have been - this is where Herbena & her family lived!

Devon: Sloman & Parsons
Banffshire: McGregor & Ogg
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Re: What are your top 3 favourite ancestors' names?
« Reply #86 on: Friday 29 November 13 10:56 GMT (UK) »
My ancestors actually lived in Honiton, and some of the women were lacemakers. The men, publicans and maltsters.
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.