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Offline jjq

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #54 on: Saturday 29 January 05 14:01 GMT (UK) »
Only two "unusual" names in my family tree.

Pythagoras Quarry (b abt 1770) - an ag.lab (his grandson - a bank clerk was also given the name Pythagoras!)

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Pithenia/Purthany Quarry (nee Chappin)
Hertfordshire - Stone, Wells, Quarry,Claxton
London - Sutton (Southwark/Clerkenwell), Phillips (Clerkenwell), Stone (Chelsea)
Suffolk - Turner & Rogers (Lavenham)
Norfolk - (K)Nobbs & Germany (Norwich)
Middlesex - Shackell
Anywhere - Quarry & variants
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #55 on: Saturday 29 January 05 15:49 GMT (UK) »
I thought Honeybourne was unusual untill I read these others, now it seems quite normal.
When my dad was alive he always smiled when the sugar puffs advert came on the tv as he said he had a distant relative named
Honeybear Workman.  Years later I found it was Honeybourne. Tidgie
Carroll, Burt, Kent
Workman, Worcestershire.
Vale, Murray,  Birmingham
Lowe, Oxfordshire

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #56 on: Sunday 30 January 05 12:12 GMT (UK) »
Not in my tree, but...

1881, Birkenhead,

Hans Sandwich - a teacher.
Bet he cut the mustard with his pupils ::)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #57 on: Friday 18 February 05 22:42 GMT (UK) »
CW- It's a mistranscription ( or a lousy spelling) of Kerenhappuch, a Hebrew name meaning "horn of antimony".  In the Old Testament, she was one of Job's daughters, along with Jemimah and Keziah, who were descibed as the most beautiful in the land!
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #58 on: Friday 18 February 05 22:47 GMT (UK) »
Thirza Ferris (a girl by the way) born in 1764 in Connecticut.
George William Burke.. my missing link!! son of Wm Burke & Mary Jane Stone/Morris
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #59 on: Saturday 19 February 05 00:14 GMT (UK) »
On the English side I have a Frankish Lundy (his mother's maiden name), on the French-Canadian I have lots as they were named after saints--Jovite, Flavie, Odince, ect.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #60 on: Saturday 19 February 05 02:42 GMT (UK) »
Lordy Lordy!!dont we have fun?Came across this forename while pulling in All my surname threads(MILLIONS!!), try this for size.Ughtred??? So,when exploring got a load of rubbish,UNTIL!!!Spooky bit nowwww,had a book from library,historical/fiction,in first page this name jumped out,and thats not the only spooky incident since being addicted to this game.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #61 on: Saturday 19 February 05 13:45 GMT (UK) »
My grandfather's brother had a son named Vashni Elijah who unfortunately died at age 5. Think Vashni might be a Biblical name but not sure.

And one of my very distant relatives named his daughter Hanutal.

I also have a distant cousin baptised Shelomoth but he seems to have used only his second name which was Joshua. Don't blame him.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #62 on: Saturday 19 February 05 14:03 GMT (UK) »
goggy - Ughtred, according to my little book of names, is an Anglo-Saxon name meaning "twilight counsel". 

saar3 - Vashni was the firstborn son of Samuel (1 Chr 28:6), but only if you use certain versions of the Bible: otherwise he's called Joel. ???
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