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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #324 on: Thursday 02 October 08 05:31 BST (UK) »
Seretter's real name was Margaret, but on every census return she is shown as Seretter or Serretter. She married using the name Serretter, if I recall.
It might have been derived from one of these names that young children use when they  can't pronounce the actual word. For instance, my daughter, when she was about 3 or 4 years old, wanted a doll's pram "with a helli-brella". We discovered that what she actually wanted was a pram with a hood, which, of course, folds like an umbrella.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #325 on: Thursday 02 October 08 06:19 BST (UK) »
Well I had googled the name out of interest and it is a surname  :)....that's why I asked   :D

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Kilmacrenan: Gortnacorrib....Bonner
Scotland: Bonar, Boner Bonner etc
Conwal: Kirkstown.....Toner, Parke
Derry City: Bonner, McGowan, McGilloway, McElwee, Bradley
Omagh: Bradley
Fanad Penninsular, Donegal.....McBride, Friel, Fielty
Sligo: McGowan

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #326 on: Thursday 02 October 08 22:30 BST (UK) »
My faves are

Mahershalalhashbaz Hussey

and

Cotton Humphrey
Stevens, Pye  East London

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #327 on: Friday 03 October 08 01:20 BST (UK) »
I have a Cesar and a Marinus in my tree
Mackay,Manson,Morrison - Tongue,Skerray,Farr
Morrison,Mackay,Falconer,MacAskill- Eddrachillis
Bain,Henderson,Levack,Gunn,Sinclair - Caithness
Hourston,Spence,Whitelaw,Banks,Brown,Wylie,Louttit,Drever - Orkney
and a few more - Revolta,Jobson,Spendlove


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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #328 on: Friday 03 October 08 09:08 BST (UK) »
I have someone with a first name of .....

Doctor
Douglas, Varnden, Joy(i)ce Surrey, Clarke Northants/Hunts, Pullen Worcs/Herefords, Holmes Birmingham/USA/Canada/Australia, Jackson Cheshire/Yorkshire, Lomas Cheshire, Lee Yorkshire, Cocks Lancashire, Leah Cheshire, Cook Yorkshire, Catlow Lancashire
See my website http://www.cotswan.com

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #329 on: Monday 27 October 08 20:30 GMT (UK) »
Whilst searching for two Great Uncles in the Birth registers, I came across the following name:

Sir Charles Scott.  Poole.  1st Quarter 1897 - Vol 5a Page 251

John


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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #330 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 14:44 GMT (UK) »
I'm doing my husband's family, and his gg grandfather was Andronicus, married to Savinia!

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #331 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 14:50 GMT (UK) »
This isn't one of mine, but in perusing a census return today I came across a

Treandaphelia (female)

Never heard of it before - has anyone else? (FreeBMD throws up a handful of occurrences).

Anna :)
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #332 on: Tuesday 28 October 08 16:51 GMT (UK) »
Most unusual surname so far is : Twoo (Sarah)

Most unusual first name is : Verdun. Not so bad you might think? It was given to a girl!

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