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Offline Kazzaqld

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #405 on: Tuesday 17 May 11 11:26 BST (UK) »
oh and Charlesworth, my husband has WHALE in his direct line - from Essex to New Zealand
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BATTY, COLE,  GIBBS, GIBBINS/GIBBONS, GODDARD, GURNEY, HUGHES, JONES, LEE, PENNY, TROWER, WHALE, WILSHAW, WOODCOCK
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LEONARD, ROLLINGS, SIZER/SIZAR and many others - Cambridgeshire


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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #406 on: Tuesday 17 May 11 11:28 BST (UK) »
Quote from: LizzieL on Saturday 09 April 11 14:27 BST (UK)
In my tree I have a boy with the first name Erl-King, born 1895 on the Isle of Wight. Have never been able to find out how they picked such an unusual name

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlking

but why you'd give the name of a malevolent forest-spirit to your boy, I don't know!
GRACE, HADLEY, ION,MURFET(T), SIZER, WALTERS, WISE - Tasmania,

BATTY, COLE,  GIBBS, GIBBINS/GIBBONS, GODDARD, GURNEY, HUGHES, JONES, LEE, PENNY, TROWER, WHALE, WILSHAW, WOODCOCK
New Zealand,

LEONARD, ROLLINGS, SIZER/SIZAR and many others - Cambridgeshire


BLACKBURN, CUNNINGHAM, DEAN, DOWGILL, GILL,HAINSWORTH, HUSBANDS, LOWE,  MABBLE, MARSHALL, MOORHOUSE, MYERS, PEARSON,PRESTON,  RAYNER, RILEY, SHOESMITH, SIGSTON, SKINN, TURNER, WARD, WILDMAN, WRIGHT

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #407 on: Tuesday 17 May 11 11:36 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Kazzaqld on Tuesday 17 May 11 11:26 BST (UK)
oh and Charlesworth, my husband has WHALE in his direct line - from Essex to New Zealand

Ooh!  We could be related!  My first traceable ancestor is Sampson Whale b. abt 1770 in Mistley, Essex.  His son was George Whale b. 1799 in Manningtree, Essex.
Pickett, Rawlings, Shipton (Gloucestershire), Bowden (Devon), Conway (Islington, St Lukes), Dyer (Islington), Riches (E London), Harper (Garboldisham/Mayfair)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #408 on: Wednesday 18 May 11 15:22 BST (UK) »
we have Dedeimia and Zepehriah   ???
Murphys of Croydon, Surrey, England.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #409 on: Wednesday 18 May 11 19:25 BST (UK) »
Amongst the hoards of Williams, Alberts, Fredericks, Georges, Mary Ann(e)s and Elizabeths, etc I've got a Cardinal.

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #410 on: Wednesday 18 May 11 19:45 BST (UK) »
Well, after a bit of a shock on one of my lines and a good number of hours spent putting things right...
My most uncommon name is now Esau.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #411 on: Thursday 19 May 11 10:33 BST (UK) »
Well Esau is at least biblical, I believe.

I was working at a children's hospital about 10 years ago and a little girl came in with the name Chauvanne.  I asked her mother where she found that unusual and pretty name - her reply
"Oh it's a common Irish name"
I didn't have the heart to tell her that's not the way to spell it.
At least the girl (or her descendants, eventually) will know any documentation refers to her!

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #412 on: Thursday 19 May 11 10:36 BST (UK) »
I went to school with a girl name Shivonne (the family weren't Irish but pronounced as Siobhan)  :)
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #413 on: Thursday 19 May 11 11:41 BST (UK) »
Quite distant but I have the Pine-Coffin family!

Charlotte Pine-Coffin and her daughters Caroline, Fanny, Septemia and Octavia of Devon. Old Charlotte died aged 99 in 1882.
Septemia and Octavia both died in 1911 in their nineties.

By the way, I also have an ancestor named Esau Whittle.
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