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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #288 on: Tuesday 14 June 16 22:14 BST (UK) »
I am half expecting to find ancestors for Hyacinth.  ;)
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #289 on: Tuesday 14 June 16 22:26 BST (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D

took me a second to get that  ::)
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #290 on: Wednesday 15 June 16 06:52 BST (UK) »
Quote from: pinefamily on Tuesday 14 June 16 22:14 BST (UK)
I am half expecting to find ancestors for Hyacinth.  ;)

 ;D ;D

had to think a sec as well ::) ;D
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #291 on: Wednesday 15 June 16 10:41 BST (UK) »
Better make sure you spell it correctly in your search! 😀
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #292 on: Tuesday 26 July 16 15:27 BST (UK) »
I think I have a Prick line in my tree, please no jokes  ;D ;D. Ann Prick, wed Isaac Deeks in Stanstead, Suffolk in 1698. Yesterday I looked at the original PR and it said Prink or Prinkk, Boyds has it down as Prick. Seems it is quite a common surname in Suffolk.
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SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #293 on: Tuesday 26 July 16 16:00 BST (UK) »
At least his first name wasn't Ivor   ;D
Middx - VAUS, ROBERTS, EVERSFIELD, INMAN, STAR, HOLBECK, WYATT, BICKFORD, SMITH, REDWOOD
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #294 on: Tuesday 26 July 16 17:41 BST (UK) »
Quote from: coombs on Tuesday 26 July 16 15:27 BST (UK)
I think I have a Prick line in my tree, please no jokes  ;D ;D. Ann Prick, wed Isaac Deeks in Stanstead, Suffolk in 1698. Yesterday I looked at the original PR and it said Prink or Prinkk, Boyds has it down as Prick. Seems it is quite a common surname in Suffolk.

I have a Mercy Pratt
Lancashire- Moss,Broadbent,Olley,Dobson,Dickenson,
Norfolk-Olley,Knowles,Bunn,Pooley,Scott,Vince
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Belfast-Antrim - Mackay,Connor,Bunting
Liverpool,Wigan & Southport - Ball,Taylor
Isle of Man - Harp,Dougherty
Cheshire - Dickenson
Knighton,Radnorshire - Evans, Broadhurst
Caithness - Sinclair

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #295 on: Tuesday 26 July 16 17:44 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 #296 on: Thursday 28 July 16 12:58 BST (UK) »
Is Coral considered   unusual or rare?
Nursall   ~    Buckinghamshire
Avies ~   Norwich
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