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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #126 on: Monday 16 May 05 12:17 BST (UK) »
MR - That thought crossed my mind also so I've just had a nosey on Ancestry and there are lots and lots of SQUELCH's waiting to be found!

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DUR-Bainbridge,Hodgson,Richardson,Walker,Thompson,Armory,Wynn,Humble,Dunn,Chapman,Herin
YKS-Bradley,Hellawell,Dransfield,Sanderson,Gledhill,Mallinson,Tyas,Thornton,Nobel,Brook,Senior,Bower,Kay,Hirst,Smith,Lockwood, Clayton,Rollinson,Swallow
NTHNTS-Hubbard,Line,Goate,Tyler,Weed,Warren,Brown,Hollowell,Bird,Kirby,Dolby,Gilbert,Wootton
NFK-Burton,Myhill,Fisher,Thompson
LNRK-Neilson,Dudson,Forrest,McNight,Paterson
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #127 on: Tuesday 24 May 05 16:16 BST (UK) »
Valentine Skipworth ....quite romantic i think, and he was born in february!! :) Sandra
lambert-north yorkshire, dannatt-lincolnshire, simms-nottingham,cresswell-derbyshire,thwaite-north yorkshire, routledge-cumberland, pearson-durham,pratt-north yorkshire, skipworth-lincolnshire,kirkbride-cumberland, spink-derbyshire, oldfield-north yorkshire, woods- north yorkshire, white- lincolnshire, atkin - lincolnshire, teasdale- north yorkshire, iveson - north yorkshire. this information is crown copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #128 on: Saturday 04 June 05 16:55 BST (UK) »
I have a Hustley Duggins who was my ggg grandmother.  She is also shown variously as Hursley, Ursla, Ursula and even I understand Priscilla.

Elsewhere there is Hezekiah Dishley and Hepzibah Downes.  She has only a tenuous link with the family and was, I think, sister to my g-grandfather's step-father.  That is unless Elisha Downes proves to be the natural father of John Faulkner - that's a theory I have which may, or may not, ever be proved.

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Court, Stratford on Avon, Dorsington, Welford<br />Faulkner,Glos/Warwicks<br />Higgins, Quinton<br />Bennett, Stoke on Trent<br />Stride, Hampshire<br />Wright, Stoke on Trent<br />McConnell, Co Donegal<br />Brooks, Co Donegal, Antrim<br />Jackson, Warwickshire/Isle of Wight/India/army<br />Keefe, Essex, Hampshire/Isle of Wight/army/india<br, Queensland aus. />Chatfield, Sussex

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #129 on: Saturday 04 June 05 17:06 BST (UK) »
Nehemiah Charles McIntosh born in 1832 in Aberdeen, the first few times I looked at it I thought it was Jeremiah, but no.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #130 on: Sunday 05 June 05 02:17 BST (UK) »
I have a Diamond Jewell Showers :)

Barbara
Jarvis - Sussex, Pearson - Ulverston, Breaks - Westmorland, Clynick - Devon, Rowe - Devon, Thompson - Cumberland, Poyner - Scotland, Laidlaw - Edinburgh, Sawyer - Kent

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #131 on: Sunday 12 June 05 19:15 BST (UK) »
My great grandfather was Thomas BIRTLES Sourbutts. No idea where the Birtles comes from, as there were none in the family before him. Do know that there is a Birtles Hall in Cheshire, however.

Carol
Sourbutts  -Ormskirk/North Meols/Southport/Liverpool
Barton - North Meols/Southport  
Bell - Dumfries/Edinburgh
Fields-  Edinburgh/London
Beddall  -Liverpool/Wolverhampton
Potts- Southport
Hewitt - Liverpool

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #132 on: Wednesday 15 June 05 16:47 BST (UK) »
I've got several ladies named Mauldin/Malden but the winner in my lot is Hannibal WIGGIN

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England:
BABER/BEAVER, Bristol;  
BINDING, Somerset 
BURRELL, Enfield/Tottenham
CARNEY, Bristol;  
CARTER, Nottingham; 
CATER, Gloucestershire; 
EMMETT, West Wilts & Bristol; 
GARNETT, Harwich; 
JOY, Norwich; 
MOSS, Bristol; 
THOMPSON, Harwich; 
THORN, Norwich;


Wales:
THOMAS, Thomas, born 1819 Llangyfelach, GLA
DAVIES, Daniel, b abt 1791 Llannon, CMN
DAVIES, Nathaniel, b abt 1798 Manordeifi, PEM
EDWARDS, Edward, b abt 1780 Llandeilo

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Welsh names
« Reply #133 on: Saturday 18 June 05 00:23 BST (UK) »
Without a doubt, many of those Celtic Welsh names appear
to be uncommon, but in dear old Wales we may find some of the names in large supply.
Zelley,  Lovell, Godbold, Woods, Phillips, Lewis, Emery,
Magee, Baker, White. Flisher, Kyne, Tilston, Valence/Vallens,
Mabb/Mabbe, Bellamy, Selley, Martha Smith, Arno (of Dartmouth, Devon}.
Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent,  Devon
North Wales          

The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
places, with various occupations

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ODD NAMES
« Reply #134 on: Saturday 25 June 05 01:42 BST (UK) »
Hi All

And I thought it was a fairly recently developed expression!?

In my tree, I have two Easey Pease. ;D

KR Dave
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Names: Brown; Robson; Davis; Male; Dowman; Harber; Tyler; Peirce; Schramm; Jarrett; McCarthy; Cox; King; Olley; Pease; Aked; Wharton; Stanley; Rudland; Grigsby; Such<br />Areas: Essex;East London; Birkenhead; Staffordshire; Shropshire; West Yorkshire; Cambridgeshire; Norfolk; Newcastle; Kent