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Offline Icicle

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #387 on: Saturday 09 April 11 21:50 BST (UK) »
My best three are Artaxerxes, Keturah and Cubit.

First two are biblical and the third I think is originally a surname - still working on that one  :)
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #388 on: Monday 11 April 11 08:58 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Sharon01 on Saturday 09 April 11 19:06 BST (UK)

Have enjoyed reading this thread, avm228 once mentioned the name Treandaphelia and had not heard of it before.

Triantafyllia in Greek means Rose, so would imagine the name stems (sorry could not resist) from there.


Been there!! See replies 339 & 342  ;D
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #389 on: Monday 11 April 11 11:00 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Icicle on Saturday 09 April 11 21:50 BST (UK)
My best three are Artaxerxes, Keturah and Cubit.

First two are biblical and the third I think is originally a surname - still working on that one  :)

I seem to remember a cubit was a unit of measurement and it was commonly the length of a forearm or about 18 inches

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #390 on: Monday 11 April 11 20:25 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Old-Bonez on Tuesday 04 November 08 07:10 GMT (UK)
I have a King and a Queen Perkins.
King died at the christmas table face down in the plum pudding. Rather interesting finish.

Here I thought my family was odd. I have a family with 11 children. They had a King (b.1892), Queenie Elizabeth (b1896), and a Benjamin Franklin. The other children didn't have odd names - just the 2nd & 3rd born and then the 11th.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #391 on: Monday 11 April 11 20:35 BST (UK) »
Just the surname HOLTAWAY - can't find anyone living with that surname now.  Think the last one we have in the tree died in 1995 and didn't have any children.
Johnson, Crankshaw, Burdett, Shaw, Dawson/Dulson, Whitebread/Whitbread, Drane, Hyett, Holtaway, Thompson, Bodell, Livermore, Gee, Vernon, Smith......the list goes on....and on...and on....

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #392 on: Monday 11 April 11 21:02 BST (UK) »
I have a Syndonia Wesley who married German Dew

 brothers called Ferdinando Northcote Astley and Lacey Phillips Capewell Astley


Celestina Isabel Overfield, Squire Francis Povey, Egerton Howard Stanley Sankey and Agrilla Timbrell also feature in my tree ;D
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #393 on: Tuesday 12 April 11 05:56 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Lisajj on Monday 11 April 11 20:35 BST (UK)
Just the surname HOLTAWAY - can't find anyone living with that surname now. Think the last one we have in the tree died in 1995 and didn't have any children.

Maybe a variation of HOLDWAY ??

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #394 on: Sunday 17 April 11 09:14 BST (UK) »
Oooo just found two ancestors with the first name Epigony. Anyone know anything about this name?

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #395 on: Monday 18 April 11 14:47 BST (UK) »
Apparently it means "offspring" in Greek! Google the word - you can find out a lot more!
Bradbury (Sedgeley, Bilston, Warrington)
Cooper (Sedgeley, Bilston)
Kilner/Kilmer (Leic, Notts)
Greenfield (Liverpool)
Holyland (Anywhere and everywhere, also Holiland Holliland Hollyland)
Pryce/Price (Welshpool, Liverpool)
Rawson (Leicester)
Upton (Desford, Leics)
Partrick (Vera and George, Leicester)
Marshall (Westmorland, Cheshire/Leicester)
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