What is your most uncommon name?

[avm228]

Treandaphelia (female)

I wonder if this name might have some relationship to the Greek word for a rose, which transliterates as 'Treandaphilo' ?

Jennifer

Oooh - I like that theory very much!  Good thinking, Jennifer

Anna

[avm228]

Quceujo  Scotton – 1900 – 3rd Quarter 4a, 78

Was this one in West Ham district?  Seems now to have been transcribed on FreeBMD as Queenie, which seems a bit more comprehensible!

Anna

[amandab]

My great great grandmother was a Meada - not many of those about!!

I've also found:
Albin/Albion
Hephzibah
Japheth/Japeth/Jabez
Epentus
Bunyon
Shadrack.

My favourite is Mary Parrott who was known as Polly!!!!

Amanda

[Musicman]

Quceujo  Scotton – 1900 – 3rd Quarter 4a, 78

Was this one in West Ham district?  Seems now to have been transcribed on FreeBMD as Queenie, which seems a bit more comprehensible!

Anna

Yes – it was West Ham district – but I found it on “findmypast”.  And to think I’ve spent all day trying to pronounce it! 

Glad you found it on FreeBMD as “Queenie” – much more comprehensible (and pronounceable!)

Thanks
John

[Old-Bonez]

I have a King and a Queen Perkins.
King died at the christmas table face down in the plum pudding. Rather interesting finish.

[Midlanders]

In my tree I apparently have the surname Mother.
Ann Mother 1810, Bradmore Staffs and Ann Mother 1816/17 Dorrington Shropshire.
Has anyone heard of the name Mother before please, I know there are quite a lot of Mathers.

[chirp]

I have Calpurnia Kirton and Cornelius Blundell.

[Brie]

I have just been looking at some Castle connections in the Midlands when I spotted Mahala Castle. She is not a connection of mine but out of curiosity because of the unusual name I looked at her census record of 1891. She is a lodger and also lodging with her is a 14 yr old boy (probably her brother) named Windsor Castle. Poor child.

Brie

[rancegal]

My dad's eldest sister was called Veve.
     I have never seen another, but it might be Canadian, as my paternal grandma was born in Canada and grandad went there to work at least once. (It may not be the spelling they would use in Canada)