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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #387 on: Saturday 31 December 16 02:46 GMT (UK) »
Keeping with the Fannys....Fanny COCK daughter of daughter of John and Eliza born 1878 NSW Australia. Not my direct line, but a side branch.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #388 on: Saturday 31 December 16 11:42 GMT (UK) »
This one has a seasonal ring to it: Cherubim Millet, glover of Barnstaple. No relation to me, but included in a list of lessees of property in Castle Street, Barnstaple.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #389 on: Saturday 31 December 16 13:05 GMT (UK) »
Came across this one in 1891 census......Char Cole. There were two
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 #390 on: Saturday 31 December 16 14:04 GMT (UK) »
Not a surname but a place name. Halnaker, Sussex, in the 15th and 16th centuries was known as Halfnaked.
Mead - Herts, Bucks, Essex
Pontifex - Bucks
Goldhurst - London, Middx, Herts
Kellogg/Kelhog - Essex, Cambs

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #391 on: Monday 02 January 17 09:49 GMT (UK) »
Just come across a girl called PATERELLEN.

Her birth is the only mention in FreeBMD. By 1851 she had become plain ELLEN.
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #392 on: Thursday 12 January 17 23:45 GMT (UK) »

Not really odd but a bit of a mouthful, found this marriage entry in America:

Edward Williamson married A Kish Seth Pit E She ( The Woman Who Blacks Her Face) in Montana 1873.

Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
Mocquard ~ London, France
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #393 on: Friday 13 January 17 01:27 GMT (UK) »
I am linked into a family variously with the surname, Freik, Friek, Freack, Freick etc. all County Durham.
Even some with the proper spelling of Freak. I am sure that the ladies with that name were so pleased to get married. 

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #394 on: Friday 13 January 17 01:29 GMT (UK) »
I'm sure all the brides marrying a Mr Freak were not so happy ~ if his name was Ivor or she was an Ima  :D
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #395 on: Friday 13 January 17 09:12 GMT (UK) »
I've come across these in the last couple of weeks:
Alverda or Alvarda (spellings vary)
Lenda
Narcissus Moorhead Pinch

Lenda became Linda, over time (understandably), but I do wonder how Narcissus fared. Presumably his first name was shortened to something more manageable by his nearest and dearest, but to what is anybody's guess!
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