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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #99 on: Friday 29 April 05 13:26 BST (UK) »
My husband's side of the tree has a Royal Archer (m) from Kent, and a Salome Snelling from Sussex.  A good friend once dated a Matt Black.
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Phillips/ Derbidge in Hampshire
Golding/ Baldock in Sussex and Kent
Farmer/ Mills/ Cheney/ Bridger in Southwark and Bermondsey.
Richardson/ Gorringe/ Brush wherever they may be.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #100 on: Friday 29 April 05 20:13 BST (UK) »
I can't believe I forgot Thomas Thompson, William Williams and Wright and Admiral (yes that is his 1st name) Mellor!  I also had a lodger with one of my families called Sykes Buckley....hmmmm!

I think my lot are officially mad - I mean William Williams thats just silly!

And if anyone can find dear old William I'd love you forever - he and his daughter, Margaret, exist only on her marriage certificate, otherwise I'm sure I'm imagining them!!   ::)

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DUR-Bainbridge,Hodgson,Richardson,Walker,Thompson,Armory,Wynn,Humble,Dunn,Chapman,Herin
YKS-Bradley,Hellawell,Dransfield,Sanderson,Gledhill,Mallinson,Tyas,Thornton,Nobel,Brook,Senior,Bower,Kay,Hirst,Smith,Lockwood, Clayton,Rollinson,Swallow
NTHNTS-Hubbard,Line,Goate,Tyler,Weed,Warren,Brown,Hollowell,Bird,Kirby,Dolby,Gilbert,Wootton
NFK-Burton,Myhill,Fisher,Thompson
LNRK-Neilson,Dudson,Forrest,McNight,Paterson
WL-Williams

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #101 on: Sunday 01 May 05 14:11 BST (UK) »
HiALL,gotta get these two down afore I forget!! Tail,+Froney both Binsteads,honest!Froney,yeah,can see that okay,but Tail????? ::)
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #102 on: Sunday 01 May 05 15:06 BST (UK) »
Found on the Wheathampstead 1851 census:

Hallahbeenah Gray!!

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Derbyshire: Brocklehurst, Wigley, Wragg, Hunt, White
Suffolk: Pledger, Mears
Herts: Hills, Linzell,Cakebread
Cambs: Hills
Bucks: Edmonds

London (Moorfields/Shoreditch) : Williams, Sharp
Warwicks: Edmonds, Litchfield
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #103 on: Sunday 01 May 05 15:19 BST (UK) »
Is this thread about uncommon names or outrageous names!

One name I'm researching is definitely extremely uncommon (rare would be a reasonable adjective) but it is certainly not outrageous.

The surname is LOCHTIE.

I wonder how many other uncommon - in the sense of rare - surnames people are researching.

JAP

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #104 on: Monday 02 May 05 02:20 BST (UK) »
Jap,might just be the diminutive of Lochiel,dont know about the T,but was at school,(many moons ago) with a feller we called 'Locky'.Liverpool Scots.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #105 on: Monday 02 May 05 06:47 BST (UK) »
We have a Younger Young - and yes he appears to be the youngest of the family.  he married my great Aunt Jane Wanklyn. You can imagine the expressions on peoples faces when I say I am looking for Wanklyns in Herefordshire  ;D
Herefordshire - Wanklyn (all variations)
Herefordshire - Preece
Gloucestershire - Bayliss
Gloucestershire - Creese
Gloucestershire - Johnson
Gloucestershire - Emerson


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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #106 on: Monday 02 May 05 09:18 BST (UK) »
Following on from the 'commonest name thread', what are the most unusual names that people have encountered?

I have twins called...

Caswallon and Gwythfyr Price


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   Reuben,Abraham,saiforella,zillah,feofilus,albaina,marleyboni,Do i win? lol   
Roberts,wood,Griffiths,Devine,Interested in all Welsh Romany families

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #107 on: Monday 02 May 05 10:25 BST (UK) »
Jap,might just be the diminutive of Lochiel,dont know about the T,but was at school,(many moons ago) with a feller we called 'Locky'.Liverpool Scots.
                    Cheers,Goggy.
Hi Goggy,
No - I've got the surname LOCHTIE back to the beginning of the 1600s, no connexions with other similar looking names, and firmly based on Aberdour, Fife.  When I first heard it, I thought it was just an ordinary Scots surname - but not so.  I have every LOCHTIE I have been able to find recorded in my database.  In the second half of the 1700s one family adopted the spelling LOUGHTY; that still exists but is extraordinarily rare.  A story came down in one line (still living in the area) that the originator of the name was a foreign mariner in the late 1500s who married an Aberdour girl and settled there - and the name is what the locals made of his name or the place he came from.  And that there is a Finnish name and place spelled Lahti which, I am told, is pronounced in a way which might fit the bill.  Who knows ...  And I guess I'll never find out ; )
JAP