Pages: 1 ... 6 7 8 [9] 10 11 12 ... 50

Author Topic: What is your most uncommon name?  (Read 110256 times)

Offline JenClark

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,479
  • Exhausted yet content!
    • View Profile
Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #72 on: Wednesday 16 March 05 14:35 GMT (UK) »
God I have heaps thanks to a large section of the tree being German and Polish

Scoyiana Kahler - female
Dariusz Kajdana - male
Malgorzata Dopke - female
Otila Cierpka - female

but the english side were sometimes just as interesting:

Pleasance Case - female - I have 6 so far so one might think that the family was very pleasant  ;)
Cook Case - male

one for the aussies here:

Melba Breen - female - named after dame Nellie I assume  :)

Also I would love to know where the following name originates:

Sisera Watters - female

Jenny
Clark, Sommerlad, Bowden, Barrett, Griffey, Sayers, Bridge, Walters, Pollard, Capel, Dibble, James, Lingard, Mensforth, Watts, Rutherford, Stainton, Chatterton, Tubbs, Thompson, Fulton, Booth, Sellwood, Edwards, Pitcher, Creech, Johns, Phillips, Roberts, Keast, Tregonning, Mason, Lancefield, Ibberson, Green, Case, Cook, Dunham, Porter, Pope, Hall, Welsh, Hellefield, Warburton, Fletcher, Foster, Stiles, Tait, Nicoll, Sutherland, McIntyre, Cole, Neal, Ladlow, Bellamy, Castleton, Barker, Yuill

Offline Manchester Rambler

  • Global Moderator
  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • ********
  • Posts: 6,608
    • View Profile
Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #73 on: Wednesday 16 March 05 15:03 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: JenClark on Wednesday 16 March 05 14:35 GMT (UK)
:

Also I would love to know where the following name originates:

Sisera Watters - female

I have only come across it as a male name: Sisera was killed by Jael, who hammered a tent-peg through his head as he slept - full story in Judges 4.  Great favourite with the Sunday School kids!

MR

ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline JenClark

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,479
  • Exhausted yet content!
    • View Profile
Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #74 on: Saturday 19 March 05 03:29 GMT (UK) »
Thanks MR

I sould have suspected it was biblical - interesting that it is a female in my case  :)

Jenny
Clark, Sommerlad, Bowden, Barrett, Griffey, Sayers, Bridge, Walters, Pollard, Capel, Dibble, James, Lingard, Mensforth, Watts, Rutherford, Stainton, Chatterton, Tubbs, Thompson, Fulton, Booth, Sellwood, Edwards, Pitcher, Creech, Johns, Phillips, Roberts, Keast, Tregonning, Mason, Lancefield, Ibberson, Green, Case, Cook, Dunham, Porter, Pope, Hall, Welsh, Hellefield, Warburton, Fletcher, Foster, Stiles, Tait, Nicoll, Sutherland, McIntyre, Cole, Neal, Ladlow, Bellamy, Castleton, Barker, Yuill

Offline Holly Golightly

  • RootsChat Veteran
  • *****
  • Posts: 640
    • View Profile
Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #75 on: Saturday 19 March 05 05:39 GMT (UK) »
Mines not uncommon just a funny combinations.

One of my gggg..uncles was Green LEAF
Also in my LEAF family is Vine LEAF

Also while searching my COX/COXKS Family i came accross
Comfort COCKS
"All lookups are Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk"

Offline XPhile2868

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,128
    • View Profile
Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #76 on: Saturday 19 March 05 14:53 GMT (UK) »
My great great great grandfather was a Wilkinson Bracewell, his mothers surname being Wilkinson.
Smith (Lancashire), McKenna (Ireland/Liverpool/Leyland), Maynard (Hertfordshire/London/Preston), Ricketts (Gloucestershire/Wigan/Preston), Scowcroft (Preston), Harling (N. Yorkshire/Lancashire), Willis (Preston), Clegg (Manchester/Preston), Dodd (Wigan/Cheshire), Alston (Lancashire), Hulks (Hertfordshire), Nicholson (Lancashire/Cumbria), Russell (Lancashire), Wilson (Cumbria), Bracewell (Lancashire), Moxham (Lancashire0

Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Offline Valslater

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 57
    • View Profile
Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #77 on: Saturday 19 March 05 15:13 GMT (UK) »
Not the strangest names but thought were slightly funny - we have John Balls m Christiana Coxon c 1860ish!!
Their ggson and gggson were then bothe names John Thomas Balls!!  Have found in my Balls searching Christmas Balls and John Banister Balls!!

And they talk about some weird names for todays children???

Valerie
Balls: South Shields
Coulson: South Shields
Fitzpatrick: South Shields, Ireland, France
Johnson: Northumberland, South Sheilds
Owen: South Shields, Wales(!)
Slater: South Shields
Todd: South Shields
Willis: Northumberland, South Shields
Wilson: South Sheilds
Winnard : Lancashire, Durham

Offline eddunc

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 144
    • View Profile
Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #78 on: Saturday 19 March 05 15:23 GMT (UK) »
My GGrandmother was born Scholastica Hart
great name when you first start searching (not many about)

Eddie
StHelens,Manchester,Devon,Plymouth,Hereford,Powick,Ocle Pychard,Alcock,Anthony,Ashall,Bailey,Bell,Bennett,Bridge,Brown,Buxton,Caen,<br />Caffaskey,Cheetham,Clare,Clinton,Coan,Coen,Cole,Cooke,Darlington,Diegan,Doran,Drury,Duckworth,Dudley,<br />Duncan,Eden,Edwards,Farrell,Fletcher,Flood,Ford,Foster,Gill,Goodman,Granigan,Green,Gregory,Hart,Howells,Hunt,<br />James,Jolley,Lawther,Leyland,Lilley,Lynch,Manning,McCarrick,McCully,McDermott,Mclory,McNeillie,McRobb,<br />Middlehurst,Moore,Parker,Peachy,P

Offline cookie

  • RootsChat Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 234
    • View Profile
Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #79 on: Friday 08 April 05 15:50 BST (UK) »
Hi all

I thought WHENT was an unusual surname until i started reading all your posts. So why is it that im called Mrs Wheat, White, Want, Wint etc apart from when a bill arrives and funnily enough its got the correct spelling of my surname on. Its funny when they want money off me they can get my details correct.

Cookie
Allington from Woolpit & Ipswich, Suffolk
Hammond from Ipswich, Gosbeck & Ashbocking, Suffolk
Fitch from Ipswich & Woodbridge, Suffolk
Ellis from Cheshire & Lancashire

Offline Melaniejoy

  • RootsChat Extra
  • **
  • Posts: 84
    • View Profile
Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #80 on: Friday 08 April 05 16:05 BST (UK) »
I have a Zante Claude and Dh's favourite G-Aunt
Irmgard Piddle
Pages: 1 ... 6 7 8 [9] 10 11 12 ... 50