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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #81 on: Sunday 07 August 16 10:05 BST (UK) »
Quote from: jaybelnz on Sunday 07 August 16 09:05 BST (UK)
"Lily" is the name that young friends of mine named their daughter, in the 80's.

It was hard not to laugh, and even harder to know what to say - their surname was Pond!

I kid you not!  ;D

That's cruel isn't it, what were they thinking of?
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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #82 on: Sunday 07 August 16 11:16 BST (UK) »
My dad worked with a man named Andy Bandy who had a wife named Mandy.
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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #83 on: Monday 08 August 16 01:07 BST (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D
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FLEMING,   Ireland
DUNNELL,  England
PAULSON,  England
DOUGLAS, Scotland, Ireland, NZ
WALKER,   Scotland
WATSON,  England, Ayrshire, Scotland, NZ
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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #84 on: Monday 08 August 16 01:31 BST (UK) »
Quote from: JAKnighton on Sunday 07 August 16 11:16 BST (UK)
My dad worked with a man named Andy Bandy who had a wife named Mandy.

Just wondering what they called their children - Candy and Sandy?
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« Reply #85 on: Monday 08 August 16 01:44 BST (UK) »
Was just thinking along those lines too Jan, maybe with Milly Molly Mandy Bandy!
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DUNNELL,  England
PAULSON,  England
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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #86 on: Monday 08 August 16 10:59 BST (UK) »
My OH family  had Wilbert,Aubrey,Godfrey,Letitia,Dorcas & Jeremiah

Hope to goodness those names have disappeared for good.
Lancashire- Moss,Broadbent,Olley,Dobson,Dickenson,
Norfolk-Olley,Knowles,Bunn,Pooley,Scott,Vince
Caithness & Dumfries - Evans,Sinclair,Mackay
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: Old fashioned names
« Reply #87 on: Monday 08 August 16 11:55 BST (UK) »
One of my relatives was called Everhilda. I have not come across that name before.
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Re: Old fashioned names
« Reply #88 on: Monday 08 August 16 13:05 BST (UK) »
Quote from: lrashford on Monday 08 August 16 11:55 BST (UK)
One of my relatives was called Everhilda. I have not come across that name before.

Quite unique really.
Lancashire- Moss,Broadbent,Olley,Dobson,Dickenson,
Norfolk-Olley,Knowles,Bunn,Pooley,Scott,Vince
Caithness & Dumfries - Evans,Sinclair,Mackay
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: Old fashioned names
« Reply #89 on: Monday 08 August 16 13:34 BST (UK) »

Well I've never heard of the name Everhilda before, but it's in the baby names list.

Everhilda - of Old English origin, and a variant transcription of Averil.

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