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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #81 on: Friday 08 April 05 16:20 BST (UK) »
Hi
 I have a MUNDY WRIGHT and just found out about HOSEA TUGBY not sure how he fits into my family though yet.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #82 on: Friday 08 April 05 16:21 BST (UK) »
I have a three brothers called Shadrach,  Mesach and Abednego in my family tree.
They were all sons of a preacherman ==figures-- and died in infancy -- to save themselves from having to spell their names at school, perhaps.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #83 on: Friday 08 April 05 16:28 BST (UK) »
While researching the "Clives" side of my family,the most unusual name i have come across so far is Zephaniah Clive,born around 1817.

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Surnames that I am intersted in are:- Siddons, Coulson, Clives, White, Cullin, Peers, Swingler, Lambeth, Quibell, Greenway, Beaman, Durrie, and Gibbs, all of Aston/Duddeston/Hockley in Birmingham,Warwickshire and Inskeep of Shrewsbury Shropshire and Birimingham

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #84 on: Saturday 09 April 05 14:32 BST (UK) »
I know it's not that unusual, but my g g g granny was a Comfort Phelps.  On marriage she became Comfort Close which I think is rather lovely.  She had a daughter named after her otherwise she would have been entered into Censuswhack  ;D
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #85 on: Tuesday 12 April 05 12:35 BST (UK) »
for some first names, in my family i have a Ezra, Adolphus, Bethel and Lofthouse. Nice and easy to find on the census. Helps to narrow down marriages on freeBMD aswell. ;D
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #86 on: Tuesday 12 April 05 12:52 BST (UK) »
Anyone found a UNIACKE,forename,found in the way back days ,looking for naming patterns,family traditions etc
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #87 on: Tuesday 12 April 05 12:56 BST (UK) »
Union Jack ;D
O'Connell, Robinson, Conway, Cunningham (Liverpool and Ireland)
Smith, Vallis, Fry (Somerset), Horrocks (London), Neighbour (Bucks).
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #88 on: Tuesday 12 April 05 13:48 BST (UK) »
I seem to remember from my school history lessons that the Puritans were always good for an unusual moniker. One I recall was a guy named Praisegod Barebones.
Does anybody know when this sort of thing went out of fashion?
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #89 on: Friday 15 April 05 21:41 BST (UK) »
My wifes Grandfather was Arnedis Washington Akers.  He went by A.W., would't you?
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