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Offline Andy001

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #252 on: Monday 06 February 06 16:48 GMT (UK) »
Indirectly I've got a Hephzibah and a Zipporah.Once when searching for a friend I miss-typed Fanny Dish with Fish and there are a LOT !
West Midlands;Manchester;Halifax;Wadsworth;<br />Denholme;Aberdeen;Leeds;Oxford;Ludgershall;Bletchingdon<br /><br />Watson,Pollitt,Briggs,Purcell,Byron,Clancy,McNulty,Hartley,Spencer,Whyte,Worth,Mills,Cripps,Howson,Wright

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #253 on: Monday 06 February 06 16:52 GMT (UK) »
Haven't contributed to this thread before as all of mine are Williams, Mary's, Elizabeths and so on  :-\...imagine my delight when I found out today I've got a Zebedee  ;D...OK he's not in my direct line, but at last someone a bit unusual!  ;D
Stiff - Monmouthshire & Glos, Parry - Monmouthshire
Stafford - Glos, Liles - Glos, Bright- Glos, Webb - Monmouthshire & Glos, Smart - Glos, Smith - Glos
Sullivan - Ireland, Jones (oh dear! Almost as bad as Smith), Walker - Somerset, Llewellyn
And, no don't laugh...Crump...I think it's great!

And of course, if I ever do manage to do a successful look up it is crown copyright and all that legal stuff!

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #254 on: Monday 06 February 06 18:44 GMT (UK) »
Dear All
My Mum knew a girl in Wirksworth (Derbyshire) in the 20s named Caroline Augustine Arkwright Mossrose Spencer. 
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Winson (Dby), Stanley(Sts), Harrison(Dby to Rutland), Barker/Barber((Sts), Baston (Oxon), Wiltshire(Middx), Franklin (Herts/Beds)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #255 on: Wednesday 08 February 06 07:54 GMT (UK) »
I have recently found out that my GGG grandmother was called Elizabeth Moonlight. According to the legend in Angus, an elderly couple found a baby abandoned on their doorstep and decided to adopt him. Because they found him at night they baptized him with the surname Moonlight. Apparently, we are all descended from this one baby. Ah, romance at last!!!!!
Reynolds, Woodham, Payne, Wilmott, Hart, Richardson, Packwood, Tandy, Dexter - Bedfordshire.
Chamberlain and Wagstaff- Hunts.
Freeman, Cheney, Cox- Northants.
Burns, Muter, Cobban, Hossack, Strachan, Moonlight.
Lanarkshire, Ross and Cromarty and Kincardineshire.
Garvey- Ireland.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #256 on: Wednesday 08 February 06 08:03 GMT (UK) »
Hi my first names are all rather plain Elizabeth, Winifred, George etc but my surnames...
ANTWIS, & NANFAN. :-\
Any matches anyone?
Cheers
Josee
Barrow, Fletcher, Clayton, Booth, Elderton, Allen & Warnock, Nanfan, :all Manchester, Taylor in NZ
Finlayson/Hargreaves/Barrow in Canada.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #257 on: Wednesday 08 February 06 22:35 GMT (UK) »
I have one family (in 1770s & 1780s) who went slightly 'interesting' in their naming, and then back to normal. The children in birth order were:

Mary, Sarah, Martha, Rebecca, Gulidina, Kerenhappuch, Gulidina, Richard, Hannah

.... neither of the Gulidinas survived  :'(  Kerrenhappuch was a daughter of Job ::)

cheers
Rosemary ;D
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Essex: Allison/Alliston, Claydon, Lambert, Pettican, Willsher, Mead, Butcher
Hampshire: Boddy, Webb, Yatman
London & adjacent: Boddy, Cormack, Nevill, Shephard, Westerman, Palmer
Norfolk: Surflen
Suffolk: Adams, Birt, Pooley, Smythe (Stanton & Badingham), Ward, Wham
Sussex: Grinsted, Pooley, Tillstone, Batcock, Bartlett, Peters
Warwickshire: Shephard

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #258 on: Thursday 09 February 06 12:41 GMT (UK) »
amongst my family of ancestors I have:

Pearssa Whall
Egerton Edward Judd
a female with the middle name of Christmas
a female with the middle name of Andrews.

My husband's line has the most unusual surname:

Farkins

which came from Ireland, but we have no ideas whereabouts.
Hicks of London, Whall of Stepney/Norwich, Jones of Stoke Newington/Aston on Clun, Wigzell of London, Hare of London, Cook of St Osyth, Finch of Essex, Judd(e) of Winterslow, Langford of Kimbolton/Knighton, Ward of Leominster, Evans of Kimbolton, Bartlett of Dorset, Sherstone/Shearstone of Marston Magna, Hare of London, Britain of Shoreditch/Birmingham, Webb of St Pancras, Genns (James), Braddy of London. Gurman, esp Noah!

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #259 on: Thursday 09 February 06 13:33 GMT (UK) »
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #260 on: Friday 10 February 06 15:11 GMT (UK) »
looking in 1901 census on ancestry, a relative is registerd as,
Tohel King,but in 1901 census from National Archives, he's John King.
Has anyone ever heard of the name, Tohel?

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Cooper Middlesex
Tyas Yorkshire
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