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Offline GrahamSimons

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #144 on: Sunday 01 May 16 15:07 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ScouseBoy on Sunday 01 May 16 12:54 BST (UK)
There is someone in our town with the first  name Christmas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Humphreys was a Buddhist convert - not quite an appropriate name for him in the end!
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #145 on: Sunday 01 May 16 15:37 BST (UK) »
I received a post once from a Mr Christmas, we had the same ancestors...     
                           Imagine Mr Christmas Christmas.   Lovely!
                                  Dolly
                           
Northumberland. Main.Hertfordshire.Brash.Dryden
East Lothian.Brash. Dryden. Cumberland.Henderson.Joyce.
Plymouth.Charlick. Canada.Boulds.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #146 on: Sunday 01 May 16 19:46 BST (UK) »
A friend of mine has a John Christmas Royall in his family tree. It seems to be quite a common name in Norfolk as I've come across it there a few times since.

How about Venus as a first name? There's an author who has written a book about making clothes for costume dolls, called Venus A. Dodge.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #147 on: Sunday 01 May 16 19:52 BST (UK) »
I'm reminded of Lee Christmas, a colourful character.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Christmas

And I'm not talking about the film character either.  ::)
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #148 on: Tuesday 03 May 16 03:39 BST (UK) »
12 years of searching has brought up a few. I was searching for a 'fanny' wife or William Wingate on my wife's side..  Fanny Upward was one option but it turned out to be Fanny Pincher who came to Australia 1840. I politely changed her to Frances.
On my side Eusebius Pattenden 1664 and son 1698.
  Also the use of mothers maiden name makes for some unusual combinations.  Peel Wright, 1743, son of Susan(nah) Peel 1700 and used in many generations, still extant in Australia today. Relates to this is Wright Wellby
Friend Ashby 1846 another
Allen(Dorset),Barker(Essex), Batham, Burris, Champelovier(London, Clark (Suffolk), Clay (London), Elliott (Wilts), Faith (Sussex), Hawes (London), Heinemann (Germany),  Hussey (Dorset), Mason (London), Myers (Yorks/Lancs), Parker (Yorks), Phillips(Hamps),  Smith,(Wilts) Wingate (Sussex) , Wiseman, Townson Yorks), Want(Wilts) and more

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #149 on: Tuesday 03 May 16 16:41 BST (UK) »
"Jubilee Ball"? Seriously.
Threlfall (Southport), Isherwood (lancs & Canada), Newbould + Topliss(Derby), Keating & Cummins (Ireland + lancs), Fisher, Strong& Casson (all Cumberland) & Downie & Bowie, Linlithgow area Scotland . Also interested in Leigh& Burrows,(Lancashire) Griffiths (Shropshire & lancs), Leaver (Lancs/Yorks) & Anderson(Cumberland and very elusive)

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #150 on: Tuesday 03 May 16 16:45 BST (UK) »
That well known firm of Solicitors Alcock and Ball
Nursall   ~    Buckinghamshire
Avies ~   Norwich

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #151 on: Tuesday 03 May 16 16:59 BST (UK) »
No relation unfortunately, but I used to work with a guy called Er Ufuk (needless to say he wasn't British). His company phone book entry was Ufuk, Er  :o  :P

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #152 on: Tuesday 03 May 16 21:24 BST (UK) »
The Fannys and Mr Ufuk have just made my evening!
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