What's the oddest name you've found?

[a-l]

I think that the parents who named their little GIRL Demarious had no idea what the modern usage would be. 

Having had a look on Mr G, it is now used as a boys name, and apparently means strong, subborn and war like

Or maybe they could see what SHE would turn out like

[chirp]

I came across the name Horsefall Pickles on a census recently. It was a male child - I wonder if he had had a recent accident?

[BushInn1746]

I came across the name Horsefall Pickles on a census recently. It was a male child - I wonder if he had had a recent accident?

Good one, but as you may already know Horsfall is a family surname. It might be his Mother's nee surname or denote Ancestry.

Horsfall of Halifax family correspondence and papers (at WYAS Calderdale)
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13616969

http://www.denniscorbett.com/Hors.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsfall_baronets


Another Horsfall, Dionysius Hargreaves Horsfall


Horsfall Street and Horsfall Tunnel at Todmorden (Horsfall of Todmorden).


We might smile, but it could be a very lucky find for a Pickles researcher, to come across the names - Horsefall Pickles!

Mark

[chirp]

Yes indeed. I think the mother's maiden name explanation (or other ancestral connection) often accounts for an unusual given name. It can be a gift to us researchers. I have an instance in my tree where all the children of a particular couple were given their mother's maiden surname for their middle names.

[Maiden Stone]

I came across the name Horsefall Pickles on a census recently. It was a male child - I wonder if he had had a recent accident?

Good one, but as you may already know Horsfall is a family surname. It might be his Mother's nee surname or denote Ancestry.

I  met a Mrs Horsfall. She corrected my pronunciation of her name to "Herfal".

[chirp]

That's interesting Maiden Stone; I think most of us would probably have got that one wrong.

[Geoff-E]

Yes, you must be very corsfall.

[Maiden Stone]

Yes, you must be very corsfall.

I wasn't corsfall. I fell off a hers and landed on my ors.

[chirp]

I think you have started something now Geoff-E