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Offline matt94

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #396 on: Friday 22 April 11 17:32 BST (UK) »
Zachariah Blick on my mother's side...

and on the same side Parthenia Harris (maiden name unknown)...whose granddaughter was named Ellen Pathina Cutler in her honour, and a great-granddaughter of hers was named Edna Parthenia Bavington. She died in the 20thC I believe, so an 18thC name that has lived on!

Grantham George Kirton on my paternal side, with brother Solomon Kirton... Vincent Bennell... Ralph Kenaz Cutler...

None out of the ordinary, but they were certainly names that made me check again  ::)
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #397 on: Sunday 24 April 11 12:20 BST (UK) »
beaconsfield tongs christian name sidney
Scotlandorkney flett bell, strickland laird traillcalqahoun.
Lanark/Argyll/Renfrew/Ayr:Smith, Steele,Kirkwood,Hamilton,May,orO'mayscott and anderso, craig , forbes taggart Kirkwood, milloy and steel apart ftom others which are numerous, graham mcilroy. stewart.brown battonisle of sku rothsay etc.
 searl rogers sutherland
Edinburgh/Aberdeen:portsea marsh,brownwhittcomb and others. to numerous to mentionweymouth frank.  Laidlaw,Brown,Dean//Charles/Hall/Slight/Johnston belgium loquet

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #398 on: Sunday 08 May 11 19:54 BST (UK) »
Gertrude Georgeanna Wallaker.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #399 on: Sunday 08 May 11 20:12 BST (UK) »
Thurston Charles - my 3xG Grand Aunt (or should that be 4xG Aunt - never sure about using grand-aunt). All her sibs had "normal" first names.
WIMBUSH - Everywhere :: MARLOW/JECOCK/JUSTICE - Northamptonshire/Warwickshire/Oxfordshire :: SCALES/BRIDGES/ENGLISH/SPINK/PETCH/GOOCH/COCKSEDGE - Suffolk :: GARRETT/GIBBS/FEARN - Warwickshire :: DEVOS - Scotland (Aberdeen)/France(Dunkerque) :: MURRAY - Ireland(Down)/Scotland(Lochs) :: TIGHE/TREACY - Cork

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #400 on: Sunday 08 May 11 21:23 BST (UK) »
I don't think I can compete with all of these! But here goes:

I have an ancestor called Sampson Whale

I had an aunt who was called Mercy (because my grandparents lost two baby girls before her and said that if God let the next girl live they would call her Mercy.)

My dad's middle name was Bonaventure.  I rather like it!
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #401 on: Monday 09 May 11 11:03 BST (UK) »
I also have a Kezia, Hepzibah and Rosezilla - all female.
Also, one Rabbi Shaw - his brothers were usual names, Thomas, William, John.  But for some reason he was named Rabbi.  He ended up moving from Bulkington (nr Coventry) down to St Pancras, and worked on the railways down in London.  He did bring his children back up here to have them baptised though!
Johnson, Crankshaw, Burdett, Shaw, Dawson/Dulson, Whitebread/Whitbread, Drane, Hyett, Holtaway, Thompson, Bodell, Livermore, Gee, Vernon, Smith......the list goes on....and on...and on....

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #402 on: Tuesday 17 May 11 06:36 BST (UK) »
I don't know about uncommon, but I just uncovered a new ancestor - Fanny Dicken.  It certainly raised an eyebrow or two in my house.  :o
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #403 on: Tuesday 17 May 11 10:38 BST (UK) »
Lisajj - first time I heard of the name Kezia was when my sister-in-law chose it for her daughter.  It turns out it is quite a common name in Cornwall (so I'm told). But there were a few Kezia's in my family tree - all from the west country.  Was your Kezia from the west country too?
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #404 on: Tuesday 17 May 11 11:24 BST (UK) »
My Great-great-grandma Kezia was from Hampshire, moved to Tasmania as a small girl and married Christopher ION - ION has been a blessing and a curse - so often mistranscribed as anything from TON to JOHNSON!
GRACE, HADLEY, ION,MURFET(T), SIZER, WALTERS, WISE - Tasmania,

BATTY, COLE,  GIBBS, GIBBINS/GIBBONS, GODDARD, GURNEY, HUGHES, JONES, LEE, PENNY, TROWER, WHALE, WILSHAW, WOODCOCK
New Zealand,

LEONARD, ROLLINGS, SIZER/SIZAR and many others - Cambridgeshire


BLACKBURN, CUNNINGHAM, DEAN, DOWGILL, GILL,HAINSWORTH, HUSBANDS, LOWE,  MABBLE, MARSHALL, MOORHOUSE, MYERS, PEARSON,PRESTON,  RAYNER, RILEY, SHOESMITH, SIGSTON, SKINN, TURNER, WARD, WILDMAN, WRIGHT

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