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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #54 on: Monday 08 February 16 16:44 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: clairec666 on Monday 08 February 16 16:39 GMT (UK)
Mine are from Essex, particularly Tillingham and Burnham on Crouch. So far they've used Moul / Moule / Moull / Mowl / Mowls / Mole... and probably more!

Ah! Mine are from Taunton, Somerset so probably not a close connection (if any) they have also had many variants but my lot are mainly spelled Maul - probably the dialects!  :)
Devon: Bibby, Bird, Chaplin, Davey, Littlejohns, Pope, Shire, Sloman, Tucker
Dorset: Gauler
Gloucestershire: Gauler
Hampshire: Kimber
London: Crump, Gauler
Middlesex: Crump
Monmouthshire: Brunt
Northumberland: Bibby
Somerset: Clarke, Dibble, Duddridge, Parsons, Pool, Poole, Shire, Silvester
Surrey: Clarke
Wiltshire: Gauler

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GEDmatch (my maternal grandfather):A933749
GEDmatch (my maternal grandmother): NY7596565

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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #55 on: Monday 08 February 16 17:17 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Clarkey500 on Monday 08 February 16 16:44 GMT (UK)
Ah! Mine are from Taunton, Somerset so probably not a close connection (if any) they have also had many variants but my lot are mainly spelled Maul - probably the dialects!  :)

Well I lose track of mine before the 1780s so who knows....  maybe there's a connection to your Somerset lot, a long way back.
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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tre
« Reply #56 on: Thursday 11 February 16 18:04 GMT (UK) »
I wouldn't like to see anonymous hehe!

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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #57 on: Thursday 17 March 16 02:39 GMT (UK) »
I have a distant connection to Peter Dupas a serial murderer, a descendant of a gt. gt. Aunt,  ::)

glad I haven't met him.  >:(
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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #58 on: Thursday 17 March 16 08:04 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: ymfoster on Thursday 17 March 16 02:39 GMT (UK)
I have a distant connection to Peter Dupas a serial murderer, a descendant of a gt. gt. Aunt,  ::)

glad I haven't met him.  >:(

The thought makes you wary of contacting distant cousins doesn't it.
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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #59 on: Thursday 17 March 16 08:12 GMT (UK) »
Genocide surnames have to be the worst Hitler, Pol Pot - I'll stick to my boring lot. I hope to never find something like that in my tree. I'm sure some people have these surnames and are nothing like either of them though
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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #60 on: Thursday 17 March 16 09:19 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: pharmaT on Thursday 17 March 16 08:04 GMT (UK)
Quote from: ymfoster on Thursday 17 March 16 02:39 GMT (UK)
I have a distant connection to Peter Dupas a serial murderer, a descendant of a gt. gt. Aunt,  ::)

glad I haven't met him.  >:(

The thought makes you wary of contacting distant cousins doesn't it.

Sure does,  his poor parents had to move interstate, they were devastated.  :(
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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #61 on: Thursday 17 March 16 10:44 GMT (UK) »
Osborne.  ;D

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Re: Are there any surnames you definitely DO NOT want to find in your family tree?
« Reply #62 on: Thursday 17 March 16 10:47 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: a-l on Thursday 11 February 16 18:04 GMT (UK)
I wouldn't like to see anonymous hehe!

or "Unknown"  for that matter ;D ;D ;D
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