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Rinnie
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I kinda like the names Arianwen, Ashsa or Akasha for girls, for lads more simple ones like James, David or Max. Me I was Harriet May for about 3 days (My Dad did not like it, and the nurse put my mother off by the way she said Harriet!!). So I ended up with Corinne  and I gave myself Rhian as a middle name when I was 8!. Although it's not as bad as the names my sister was going to give my niece; Morgana, Angharad I believe, she ended up being called Rhiannon. My ancestors on the other hand all seem to be called Caroline, Catherine, Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary or Sarah, John, James, William George, Joseph or Daniel!. A little change now and again is a nice suprise! 
Rin 
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North Wales: Denbighshire: Williams, Griffiths, Davies, Jones, Speed, Matthias, Hopwood, Pugh, Hughes, Edwards, Rowland, Blower (Bloor) Flintshire: Blower (Bloor), Williams, Clarke Staffordshire: Darlington, Stubbs, Biddulph Cheshire: Stubbs, Wade, Henshaw(Henshall) Cumberland: Marriner, Tuddenham, Bell, Norman, Crozier Norfolk: Tuddenham, Rolfe, Rosier Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Gensleuth
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Just yesterday I recvd. info. on a Lancelot Stansted Mountfitchet D'Arcy, a very grand name for the son of an agricultural labourer.
Born in the area which is now occupied by Stansted Airport and named after the hamlet of nearby Stansted Mountfitchet I presume.
Named after their birthplaces, I also have;
Leicester [forename], Cambridge [middle name], Moffat [forename] and Jersey [forename].
Anyone else have any?
Tom
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GAUNT N Staffordshire,GAUNT Manchester.GUY,Cumbria,Lancs. BARTLEY,Salford, Lancs, NEVILLE,Salford. PHILLIPS,Staffs, MAYER,Staffs,COSSAR,Berwick, E and Mid Lothian and Argyll. HIGGINS,Glasgowand Dunoon,Argyll.GALLAGHER,Argyll,IRISH,Herts.
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krisesjoint
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Being a South Australian ....here in South Oz my footy team is the "Adelaide Crows".... there is a lady who is a member (BIG FAN) elderly lady.....I have seen her on the teli a few years back going to the finals when we were in them......and as hard to believe as it is.....her name is legitimately ADELAIDE CROW......How could she barrack for any body else!
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Lloydy
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My full name is Janine - which I absolutely hate, SORRY Mum & Dad!!!! I started using Jan when I began senior school and that's what everyone calls me now. My Dad keeps using the Janine and it drives me mad. I've no idea why 
My family tree however are full of very ordinary names: Richard, James, John, Anne, Jane, Joseph, Thomas, Mary etc etc.
But I do have a Reuben, Zipporah, Cecilia, Millicent, Martha & one of my favouriites Phoebe.
Jan
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The fantastic restoration and colour of my Avatar picture was done by Rootschatter PolldollAshton, Beaton/Betton, Bennett, Breese/Breeze, Crisp, Chandler, Challenor/Challinor, Crisp, Davies, Hudson, James, Jarman, Jenkins, Jones, Lewis, Mills, Owen, Owens, Richards, Simon & Trow - My Welsh ancestors from Montgomeryshire.
Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Lloydy
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Mrs Lizzy, give us a clue about your real name, PLEASE
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The fantastic restoration and colour of my Avatar picture was done by Rootschatter PolldollAshton, Beaton/Betton, Bennett, Breese/Breeze, Crisp, Chandler, Challenor/Challinor, Crisp, Davies, Hudson, James, Jarman, Jenkins, Jones, Lewis, Mills, Owen, Owens, Richards, Simon & Trow - My Welsh ancestors from Montgomeryshire.
Census information is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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BarryBear
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Was trawling through the LDS earlier and for a minute thought I was related to a Jane Austen, the daughter of a bookseller. But I am related to a Wellington Brewer but that's about the most exciting name so far. Found someone who lived in a place called Tidly Wink, ooh how a giggled
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 Lawson in Durham and Croydon, Corbett in Surrey, Watts in Surrey and Croydon, King in Herts, Knight in South East London, Papworth in East London, Brewer in Essex, Eley/Ely in Essex, NewburyNewberry in Herts Fillery in Surrey Waugh in Durham |
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Hackstaple
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Mrs. Lizzy - 3 guesses at a tart's name
1. Bakewell
2. Tipsy
3. Custard
Am I close? Otherwise I plump for Lavinia. I was in a Bernard Shaw play at school "Androcles and the Lion". My only line was "And Lavinia shall be the tart". As it was a boys grammar school this brought the house down.
My late sister-in-law was called Lola - that is really a tart's name and she secretly hated it but never found anything better as she disliked her second name even worse. I don't know why as it was Kathleen. My grandmother, the one who married 4 blokes, was Ada Mary. When she decided she was fed-up with Ada she decided to be called Katherine. When she got fed-up with telling people how to spell Katherine she decided she would be called Kathleen. That shows that one man's fish is another man's poisson as the French say - but now I am rambling and that last tot has made me sleepy at last.
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa. Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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What about DILLYS i think its Welsh ! 
