What's the oddest name you've found?

[Geordie daughter]

Just been scouring old Suffolk directories for ancestors and came across these names in the Ipswich section:
Wray Palliser Lamb
Tampion Brownsmith
Philadelphia Tempany
Octavian Royle
Margerum Fox
Cutting Green
William Bell Horn
John Heigho
Jeremiah Licence
and under the heading of Bird and Animal Preservers, I found Edward BIRD and James GULL.

[Beeonthebay]

Just been scouring old Suffolk directories for ancestors and came across these names in the Ipswich section:
Wray Palliser Lamb
Tampion Brownsmith
Philadelphia Tempany
Octavian Royle
Margerum Fox
Cutting Green
William Bell Horn
John Heigho
Jeremiah Licence
and under the heading of Bird and Animal Preservers, I found Edward BIRD and James GULL.

 

If only I had names like this to work with. 

[Geordie daughter]

I don't envy anyone trying to research Cutting Green, though! My late husband has Cuttings in his family tree and it's murder when you're having to wade through what feels like three million references to "wood cutting" or "railway cutting" and the like while doing online searches. Searching just for "Green" would be even worse! (Poor Cutting sounds rather like a lawn, actually  )

[a-l]

I came across a few Lettice Gardeners . I do wonder whether it was intentional .

[..claire..]

Yes I wonder if some of the transcribers have a sense of humour 

1901 census has a

LETHER BAGuley

Should be Lettice Baguley.

Made me laugh 

Claire

[pinefamily]

I don't envy anyone trying to research Cutting Green, though! My late husband has Cuttings in his family tree and it's murder when you're having to wade through what feels like three million references to "wood cutting" or "railway cutting" and the like while doing online searches. Searching just for "Green" would be even worse! (Poor Cutting sounds rather like a lawn, actually  )

You should try Pine in a directory or newspaper search.

[coombs]

Augustus Oliphant Cunnew. They may say easy to trace but such names have more spelling variants and mistrancriptions.

[a chesters]

I don't envy anyone trying to research Cutting Green, though! My late husband has Cuttings in his family tree and it's murder when you're having to wade through what feels like three million references to "wood cutting" or "railway cutting" and the like while doing online searches. Searching just for "Green" would be even worse! (Poor Cutting sounds rather like a lawn, actually  )

You should try Pine in a directory or newspaper search.

Macarthur on Trove gets lots of hits for Douglas Macarthur, General, but none that I have been able to filter out for James, accountant 

[jaybelnz]

Was he maybe an Accountant with Broken Hill Company?

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66308975/6582205

More James McArthurs here  - 
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=James+McArthur


Jeanne