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Offline holleah

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #423 on: Tuesday 14 June 11 00:52 BST (UK) »
Quote from: chinakay on Saturday 28 May 11 02:43 BST (UK)
Vashti Sabina Phillips?

I think I know a distant cousin of your OH, Liz :)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #424 on: Tuesday 14 June 11 08:40 BST (UK) »
Hi Holleah and welcome to Rootschat!  Did you want to add something to this thread?
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #425 on: Tuesday 14 June 11 09:26 BST (UK) »
hello Holleah nice to meet you
I have this week found a Richard Rechab Ralph Gribble wich must have been a weighty aliteration to carry through life
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #426 on: Tuesday 14 June 11 09:48 BST (UK) »
Hi,

I have a lady baptised Arethusa. She must have liked the name as it was passed on to her first daughter.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #427 on: Wednesday 22 June 11 15:21 BST (UK) »
Someone told me that Vashti was likely to be a Romany name...my worst is Polyxenia....

...good score in Scrabble tho...

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #428 on: Wednesday 22 June 11 18:28 BST (UK) »
I have Gt Gt Aunts Marvelly, Adina and Elettra (Elet).  They were Jamaican.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #429 on: Wednesday 29 June 11 05:37 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Julia Frances on Wednesday 22 June 11 15:21 BST (UK)
Someone told me that Vashti was likely to be a Romany name

Interesting...I have passed it on to Vashti's descendant.

Cheers,
China
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #430 on: Wednesday 29 June 11 08:20 BST (UK) »
Melesina. On freeBMD, I can only see about 10 babies called Melesina in a 100years  of english and welsh births.

And her surname wasn't all that common either, - Melesina Tidd  :)
Bradbury (Sedgeley, Bilston, Warrington)
Cooper (Sedgeley, Bilston)
Kilner/Kilmer (Leic, Notts)
Greenfield (Liverpool)
Holyland (Anywhere and everywhere, also Holiland Holliland Hollyland)
Pryce/Price (Welshpool, Liverpool)
Rawson (Leicester)
Upton (Desford, Leics)
Partrick (Vera and George, Leicester)
Marshall (Westmorland, Cheshire/Leicester)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #431 on: Wednesday 29 June 11 17:46 BST (UK) »
Dolphin/Daulphin Marchant is one I found yesterday...

Kerenhappuch Josey is another...found yesterday...a biblical name I believe

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