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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #414 on: Friday 20 May 11 12:40 BST (UK) »
My Kezia was from Bedworth (about 6 miles north of Coventry) in Warwickshire
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« Reply #415 on: Friday 20 May 11 12:49 BST (UK) »
wow the Pine Coffins were the  lords of the manor that many of my ancestors worked for I doff my cap to ye CV-S

your 'umble servant
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #416 on: Friday 20 May 11 12:57 BST (UK) »
Hi Trees!

That's very interesting and I must say many of my ancestors on other lines were servants as well (just not to the Pine-Coffins)

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« Reply #417 on: Friday 20 May 11 13:02 BST (UK) »
It is said of the P-C's that they paid for many of the emigrants of N.Devon to go to Canada to free the estates of a potential problem  ;D don't know if there was any truth behind that or if it is simply myth
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« Reply #418 on: Friday 20 May 11 13:21 BST (UK) »
It seems a Pine-Coffin became a Colonel and was nicknamed the 'Wooden Box'  ;D

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #419 on: Friday 20 May 11 16:00 BST (UK) »
My Kezia was from Bedworth (about 6 miles north of Coventry) in Warwickshire

Isn't Kezia a biblical name?

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #420 on: Friday 20 May 11 21:54 BST (UK) »
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Kezia .... biblical ....

One of the daughter of Job, I think.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #421 on: Friday 20 May 11 22:23 BST (UK) »
My Oh GG grandmother had sisters called Lucretia,Letitia.& Vashti,their Grandmother was Sabina.
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #422 on: Saturday 28 May 11 02:43 BST (UK) »
Vashti Sabina Phillips?

I think I know a distant cousin of your OH, Liz :)

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