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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #306 on: Sunday 21 October 07 11:47 BST (UK) »
How about the 1891 census

Hay Wire aged 5
Actually Harry Wise

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #307 on: Tuesday 23 October 07 13:54 BST (UK) »
Hello everyone,

in terms of first names, the oddest I've encountered is Colleberry (her first name was Franklin). As for surnames, I've got Muddle (rare) and Goldswain (incredibly rare). I've also got Funnell, but in comparison with Muddle and Goldswain it's positively common, at least in Sussex.

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BKM/OXF: Harvey, Broughton, Goldswain, Braden, Ridgley, Wheeler, Lunnon, Dean, Austin, Franklin, Baldwin, Blackwell, Brooks, Ashby, East, Goodchild, Loosley, Stratford, Newell, Johnson, Bailey, Hobbs
BRK/OXF: Maskell, Waite, Ilsley, Harwood, Fuce, Lookman, Patey
SSX: Funnell, Hollengam, Gilbert, Ellis, Marchant, Harmer, Godfrey, Stoneham, Percy, Lavender
MDX/LDN/HRT: Seywell, Neville, Woods
KEN: Weller, Bishop, Friday, Maynard
ENG: Pewtress
Romnichal: Evans, Alford, Jeffs, Loveridge

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #308 on: Tuesday 23 October 07 15:07 BST (UK) »
Welcome to Roots chat hope you find a few moreGoldswains soon and wont be left in too much of a Muddle searching for your Funnells Which counties are they in and what time period?
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #309 on: Tuesday 23 October 07 15:16 BST (UK) »
If you look in the surname interest list( click on the link at the bottom of the page you will see two other members are looking for FUNNELLs and one for Muddle and about 24 for Franklin try PM ing them. Don't forget to add your names onto the list too
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #310 on: Tuesday 23 October 07 15:39 BST (UK) »
Reading all of this I couldn't help but think, spare a thought for Princess Tiami Andre.

If you are not familiar with that name, Princess Tiami is the Christian name! Daughter of Peter Andre and Jordon. Why do some parents forget that children have to grow up with names?

I don't really have any uncommon names in my tree.
Strachan of Strichen/New Pitsligo - Connon of Turriff - Watt of Pennan - Noble of Broadsea -  Garden of Peterhead - Bryson of Ecclefechan

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #311 on: Tuesday 23 October 07 22:20 BST (UK) »
Re uncommon names must have sympathy for poor blighter who was recorded as Semporarilyabtentfromhome - Kirkpatrick Durham parish Kircudbrightshire - poor Sempo!!

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KBC interests - Murray and Shaw: Blacklock and Kirkland.
DMS interests - as KBC.

ENGLAND
Northumberland
Murray: > 1920 in Longbenton/Forest Hall; Howick 1920's
Elliott: North Nbld 1800's
Straughan/Straphen: North Nbld 1800's and 1910's/1920's Craster.
Henderson(nee Elliott)/Brodie Haydon Bridge 1900's
Bell (nee Elliott) Christon Bank/Embleton 1900's

IRELAND
County Mayo
Mills: Erris Head and Gortmellia
Mullarky: as same
Ginnelly: as same

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #312 on: Tuesday 30 September 08 09:03 BST (UK) »
Fairly uncommon, but certainly long is
Louisa Benedicta Selina Calideness Postlethwaite.
I guess she didn't give many autographs!

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Do you have any more information on who she married Pete? We are researching her father (Rev. Richard Postlethwaite), but any connection would be useful.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #313 on: Tuesday 30 September 08 11:40 BST (UK) »
Reading all of this I couldn't help but think, spare a thought for Princess Tiami Andre.

If you are not familiar with that name, Princess Tiami is the Christian name! Daughter of Peter Andre and Jordon. Why do some parents forget that children have to grow up with names?


I was checking the page number of a reference on the GRO birth indexes for 1912 yesterday and just a few lines away from the chap I was looking for was someone with the forenames Princess Ann.  (And no, the surname wasn't Windsor, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha etc.)

So having a little princess of a daughter isn't new!

Princess Tiami should be grateful she doesn't have a middle name Maria.  Or perhaps she does and that's an indication what her mother had been drinking when she was conceived!  ;D
Lancashire: Stevenson, Wild, Holden, Jepson
Worcs/Staffs: Steventon, Smith
East London & Suffolk: Guest, Scrutton
East London: Palfreman (prev Tyneside), Bissell, Collis, Dearlove, Ettridge
Herts: Camac, Collis, Mason, Dorrington, Siggens
Marylebone & Sussex: Cole
London & Huntingdonshire: Freeman
Bowland: Marsden, Noble
Shropshire: Guest

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #314 on: Tuesday 30 September 08 12:47 BST (UK) »
We used to know a doctor named Benjamin B Doctor ... don't know whether he ever tried to avoid his karma ...

Incidentally, someone posted about the name Gad, a while back: - and we also knew a doctor who had this first name.  We were told it was biblical (?)
I live in Sydney, Australia, and I'm researching: Powell, Tatham, Dunbar, Dixon, Mackwood, Kinnear, Mitchell, Morgan, Delves, & Anderson