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Offline DianaCanada

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #198 on: Thursday 22 September 05 01:35 BST (UK) »
Forgot this one - one of my kids' ancestors was Sophronia Stickney Peabody (full birth name).
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #199 on: Thursday 22 September 05 13:00 BST (UK) »
Another one I remembered waw Newreaniah or Neuraniah or Newry Anna (when she died) Pratt.  Not a biblical name and cannot find any reference in any book of names in the world yet that can tell me if this exists so possibly made up!  Any  suggestions anyone?  ???
DUNN - Cambuslang, LKS
FORSYTH - Shotts, LKS
FRAME - Hamilton, LKS
HODGSON - Hamsterley, DUR
HUMPHREY - Easingwold, NRY
HUNT - Frimley, Surrey
MCKECHNIE - Argyll - Shotts
NETHERCLIFF(T)/ DRAYCOTT Sandhurst, BKS
PEPPERCORN - Lolworth, Cambs
PRATT - Thirsk, NYK
REDSHAW - Hamsterley, DUR
REYNOLDS - Fritton,Stratton,NFK
ROWLEY - STS to DUR
TALLACK - St Agnes Padstow,CON
WALMSLEY - NRY,Brum
WILSON - Hamsterley, Co Durham
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #200 on: Tuesday 27 September 05 10:57 BST (UK) »
For one Stanley Zelley Wyatt - his middle name would be an uncommon personal name. 8)
Zelley,  Lovell, Godbold, Woods, Phillips, Lewis, Emery,
Magee, Baker, White. Flisher, Kyne, Tilston, Valence/Vallens,
Mabb/Mabbe, Bellamy, Selley, Martha Smith, Arno (of Dartmouth, Devon}.
Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent,  Devon
North Wales          

The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
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Sissevanna - Sisse Vanna
« Reply #201 on: Tuesday 27 September 05 11:03 BST (UK) »
Quote from: DianaCanada on Thursday 22 September 05 01:34 BST (UK)
I was actually looking for the in-laws of one of my relatives (honestly, I do have a life) and found a Sissevanna Bassett - mother and daughter.
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Breaking up is hard to do, but splitting the name into parts gives us Sisse Vanna or Sister Vanna or Vannia
(sounds Eastern Europen or could be Romani)
e.g. Vanna White
Zelley,  Lovell, Godbold, Woods, Phillips, Lewis, Emery,
Magee, Baker, White. Flisher, Kyne, Tilston, Valence/Vallens,
Mabb/Mabbe, Bellamy, Selley, Martha Smith, Arno (of Dartmouth, Devon}.
Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent,  Devon
North Wales          

The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
places, with various occupations

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #202 on: Tuesday 27 September 05 11:27 BST (UK) »
On the 1901 census, the mother is Vanna and the daughter Sissie - you'd never guess that they had the same name, would you? 

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ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #203 on: Tuesday 27 September 05 11:42 BST (UK) »
Came across this one . . . . (West Stirlingshire pre-1855 MI Book, surveyed July 1969)

Hellen Kekkijoo

Kekkijoo . . . . . ???

I was so intrigued that I went and had a look at the stone to see for myself. It actually says Hellen Kerkwood.

So much for mistranscriptions!!

I know we Scots have some strange names but . . . . .

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #204 on: Tuesday 27 September 05 12:11 BST (UK) »
Anne,

That puts the cat among the pigeons for those who think that mistranscriptions come mainly from non-UK persons transcribing censuses for Ancestry!

How could those experienced Mitchell transcribers have made such an error ;D

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #205 on: Tuesday 27 September 05 12:48 BST (UK) »
I know Jap!!!

This isn't the only one I've found!

None quite so outrageously wrong but a few gems none the less.

If I'm doing any searches, I usually quote the book and then tentatively add what I believe the stones actually say. (I usually take photos anyway so people can make their own minds up)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #206 on: Tuesday 27 September 05 18:57 BST (UK) »
Quote from: apanderson on Tuesday 27 September 05 11:42 BST (UK)
Came across this one . . . . (West Stirlingshire pre-1855 MI Book, surveyed July 1969)

Hellen Kekkijoo
Kekkijoo . . . . . ???
I was so intrigued that I went and had a look at the stone to see for myself. It actually says Hellen Kerkwood.
So much for mistranscriptions!!
I know we Scots have some strange names but . . . . .
Anne

Maybe it was the case of some bonnie lad doubling up on
single malt?? ;D
Zelley,  Lovell, Godbold, Woods, Phillips, Lewis, Emery,
Magee, Baker, White. Flisher, Kyne, Tilston, Valence/Vallens,
Mabb/Mabbe, Bellamy, Selley, Martha Smith, Arno (of Dartmouth, Devon}.
Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent,  Devon
North Wales          

The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
places, with various occupations
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