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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #207 on: Wednesday 01 June 16 12:35 BST (UK) »
A friend of mine has a Barzilla in his tree, and an Ancorah. Barzilla is a biblical name but I have no idea where Ancorah comes from. It was shortened to Cora down through the generations.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #208 on: Wednesday 01 June 16 12:36 BST (UK) »
Don't know what this poor girls parents were thinking of...

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Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
Mocquard ~ London, France
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #209 on: Thursday 02 June 16 20:24 BST (UK) »
Ann Winterflood. Did she have a rellie with the surname of Summerdrought lol?
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #210 on: Thursday 02 June 16 20:53 BST (UK) »

 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #211 on: Thursday 02 June 16 21:27 BST (UK) »
I saw a reference to a Vera Batterface this afternoon....

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #212 on: Sunday 05 June 16 14:16 BST (UK) »
Fancy being lumbered with the first name "Tamerlane"? I bet he used his second name, George,  most of the time.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #213 on: Sunday 05 June 16 15:15 BST (UK) »
Looking at Baunton baptisms yesterday I found one Oliffe Olivia baptised Dec 24th 1871 and another Oliffe Olivia baptised 11th April 1873. Different parents for each.
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #214 on: Sunday 05 June 16 22:00 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Geordie daughter on Sunday 05 June 16 14:16 BST (UK)
Fancy being lumbered with the first name "Tamerlane"? I bet he used his second name, George,  most of the time.
You've reminded me of a young engineer I used to work with. He called himself Tem. I asked him one day if that was short for something, and the answer was Temujin. Apparently I was the first person he'd met that knew the significance of the name.  ::) ::)
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.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #215 on: Monday 06 June 16 00:16 BST (UK) »
PF - I had to look it up!    ;D ;D ;D ;D
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