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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #234 on: Thursday 09 June 16 22:04 BST (UK) »
Visions of St. Trinian's...... ::)
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 #235 on: Thursday 09 June 16 22:40 BST (UK) »

Well Jolly Hockey Sticks Sir... visions of naughty schoolgirls ...tut tut  :o ;D :o ;D
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #236 on: Friday 10 June 16 06:15 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ..claire.. on Thursday 09 June 16 21:48 BST (UK)

...and we promise to behave from now on  :o :o

My reply to when OH tells me to behave is........HOW :o :o ;D ;D

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #237 on: Friday 10 June 16 07:12 BST (UK) »
Just found while searching a marrige.....Caroline Boobyer
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 #238 on: Friday 10 June 16 10:43 BST (UK) »
Well being naughty schoolgirls, what about a lesson on the origins of surnames....

Davidson or Wilson - son of David or Will

Baker - speaks for itself ... as does Smith

My maiden surname Cairns - were my family origins  in Queensland...nope ... Small stack of stones in Scotland..more than likely

Abbott - the priest

Alcock  ... Now then, behave please , I know what you may be thinking  ;) - it's a Middle English pet form of Adam

So where did your surnames originate from?
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #239 on: Friday 10 June 16 10:58 BST (UK) »
Quote from: a chesters on Friday 10 June 16 06:15 BST (UK)
Quote from: ..claire.. on Thursday 09 June 16 21:48 BST (UK)

...and we promise to behave from now on  :o :o

My reply to when OH tells me to behave is........HOW :o :o ;D ;D

But are we really misbehaving ??? ;D.... or just having some good  ;D clean ;D innocent ;D fun and they're just a bunch of spoil sports ;D ;D
Paylet, Pallatt, Morris (Russia, UK) Burke, Hillery, Page, Rumsey, Stevens, Tyne/Thynne(UK)  Landman, van Rooyen, Tyne, Stevens, Rumsey, Visagie, Nell (South Africa)

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #240 on: Friday 10 June 16 11:09 BST (UK) »

Certainly not misbehaving  ;D

Just finding ridiculous childish things hilariously funny.

Bring on the good ;D clean ;D innocent  :D fun !!!

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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 #241 on: Friday 10 June 16 11:28 BST (UK) »
OK then, according to nearly every surnames book I've read, Pine means "dweller by the pines". If other research is true, the name is of French, and ultimately Spanish origin. Galceran de Pinos was one of the nine barons from the Pyrenees who answered the call from Charlemagne. If only my lot went back that far.  ::)
Dowdeswell: an old Gloucestershire legend has that an Anglo-Saxon monk sank a well; his name was Doudo, or Dowdo. Another good story with no verifiable basis.
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 #242 on: Friday 10 June 16 11:40 BST (UK) »

My married surname Tobin is I believe a variant of D'Aubin which originates in Brittany, France. But can be traced back to ancient Gaul in the form of Albinus.

How they ended up in Ireland God only knows ;D
Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
Mocquard ~ London, France
Census info is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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