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Offline usaPetticrew

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #153 on: Wednesday 04 May 16 12:47 BST (UK) »
Syrsigumbus or Cisigambus.  A girl's name, mid-1800s.
Petticrew, Pettigrew, Bedigrew, and all variants.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #154 on: Wednesday 04 May 16 13:35 BST (UK) »
We have a Hannah Fluck in one tree - she died in Allegany, Maryland.  I was pleased to discover that Fluck was her surname from her first marriage and that her maiden name was Phillips.  Fluck would be an easier name to research though.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #155 on: Thursday 05 May 16 13:57 BST (UK) »
Just found in my tree.    Mercy Butchers
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 #156 on: Saturday 07 May 16 23:50 BST (UK) »
My great grandparents named two daughters , Falantua, mistranscribed as Flantan and Flantau, have no idea where these came from, both died as children sadly and my granddad never mentioned his sisters.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #157 on: Sunday 08 May 16 00:21 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ThrelfallYorky on Tuesday 03 May 16 16:41 BST (UK)
"Jubilee Ball"? Seriously.

I like that....great name 8) was it male or female.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #158 on: Sunday 08 May 16 02:55 BST (UK) »
Quote from: coombs on Wednesday 27 April 16 16:33 BST (UK)
I have Durham ancestors and find Durham can be like Wales, a county with a limited amount of surnames. I have 2 lines of Richardsons there, and have had many headaches with my Wilson family. But some odd names have been found, odd first names. Spanisher Robson.

Coombs.......

I have a Charles Richardson who married my 2nd cousin (4 removes) named Mary Jane Sheill on 09 Feb 1881, Chester Le Street, Durham & his father was named Jonathon Backhouse Richardson  :P

Charles had a sister Isabella who married a Dalrymple James Belgrave
He also had a sister Marion who married a Sherlock Vignoles Willis 

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Any connection  ???

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Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #159 on: Sunday 08 May 16 03:41 BST (UK) »
That's a fair collection of names, Annie.
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 #160 on: Sunday 08 May 16 03:45 BST (UK) »
Quote from: pinefamily on Sunday 08 May 16 03:41 BST (UK)
That's a fair collection of names, Annie.

Sure is Pine but sadly not my family as it looks a tad interesting  ;D....only an "in-law" but curious if this is Coombs family?

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South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #161 on: Sunday 08 May 16 04:02 BST (UK) »
While reading about another subject today, I came across this one.  I regret that he is not mine.  Kansas Nebraska Bill was born in Connecticut in 1855 and was named after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which created the Kansas and Nebraska Territories and opened them up for settlement.  My source said that he had a sister named Missouri Compromise Bill [after the 1820 bill which admitted Missouri as a 'slave state' and Maine as a 'free state'] but I have found no record of her so maybe she is apocryphal.

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Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
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Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis
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