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Darcy
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Unusual name
« on: Tuesday 28 September 04 00:14 BST (UK) »

Burzala Clatterbarn! -  I love it Grin

Yesterday on 1837online I found the death of -

                    Godly Christian Shepherd

Fancy having to live up to a name like that!

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Fisher, Pitts, Lucas, Emmit, Keal, Bennett, Maddock, Jackson, Pidd, Lincolnshire
Bullock, Read, White, Gloucestershire.
Shepherd, Foyle, Crowter, Green, Wiltshire
Strickland, Fisher, Butterworth, Brown, Northhamptonshire
Shepherd, Bullock, Waterhouse, Lancashire
Fisher, Goodwin, Rutland



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Re: Unusual name
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 28 September 04 00:42 BST (UK) »
Did he have a brother Cleanly?
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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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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 28 September 04 00:46 BST (UK) »

           Grin Grin Grin LOL BarryBear  Grin Grin Grin

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Fisher, Pitts, Lucas, Emmit, Keal, Bennett, Maddock, Jackson, Pidd, Lincolnshire
Bullock, Read, White, Gloucestershire.
Shepherd, Foyle, Crowter, Green, Wiltshire
Strickland, Fisher, Butterworth, Brown, Northhamptonshire
Shepherd, Bullock, Waterhouse, Lancashire
Fisher, Goodwin, Rutland



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Re: Unusual name
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 28 September 04 12:06 BST (UK) »
Wright Mayball Bamford.

I wondered if they were going for a Posh & Becks approach, and naming it for where it was concieved  Grin
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WEST, PROCTOR - Fillongley, Warwickshire
CLARK(E) - Aston, Warks & Leicestershire
BETTERIDGE & THORNTON - Oxfordshire
FISHER -  Bromsgrove, Worcs,
SLAUGHTER - Evesham, Worc s & Birmingham
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« Reply #4 on: Saturday 02 October 04 19:48 BST (UK) »
Boys called "Christmas" - which seems to be common in Norfolk.... and same family has Obediah, Hagar Dinah, & Eli Abner.....another family with Calastius, Alphemus & Urina ..... and my fabourites - Theophilus and his little sister "Pleasure"........ We also have two sisters Faith & Charity .....presumably Hope died !..... have not found her yet !
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Ardill,  Bourke/Burke, Bellwood, Bridge, Cain, Church, Cragg,  Dennell, Dunning, Gough, Haslam, Holmes, Jessop, Kidson/Kitson, Knowles, Markwick, Martin, Munden, Nickerson, Robinson,  Seddon, Whittle, Varley & Walpole.

Areas: Yorkshire, Lancashire, Norfolk, Marylebone & Tipperary
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« Reply #5 on: Saturday 02 October 04 20:02 BST (UK) »
Just remembered another in the Norfolk family - a girl named "Happy" -

and my favourite surname - Crumbleholme -
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Ardill,  Bourke/Burke, Bellwood, Bridge, Cain, Church, Cragg,  Dennell, Dunning, Gough, Haslam, Holmes, Jessop, Kidson/Kitson, Knowles, Markwick, Martin, Munden, Nickerson, Robinson,  Seddon, Whittle, Varley & Walpole.

Areas: Yorkshire, Lancashire, Norfolk, Marylebone & Tipperary
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« Reply #6 on: Saturday 02 October 04 22:42 BST (UK) »
Here's one for you - my brother's daughter married a Mr Scales ....... and, if it was a boy, she threatened to call her baby Wayne ! .....fortunately we have an Alice.


We also have a Defa in the family ..... but that's a pet name !   as in Defa dog


sorry!!

Anybody got a cat called Seefa ?
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Ardill,  Bourke/Burke, Bellwood, Bridge, Cain, Church, Cragg,  Dennell, Dunning, Gough, Haslam, Holmes, Jessop, Kidson/Kitson, Knowles, Markwick, Martin, Munden, Nickerson, Robinson,  Seddon, Whittle, Varley & Walpole.

Areas: Yorkshire, Lancashire, Norfolk, Marylebone & Tipperary
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Re: Unusual name
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 19 October 04 15:17 BST (UK) »
Strange names  Undecided

How's about a middle name of Browf.  I have an Eliza Browf Lawton in my dark, distant, past.  At first I thought that she may have been given this strange naming by the family dog (browf, browf  Grin).  Further research came across some Lawtons (close relations possibly) who's children had the middle name of Brough.
It was only when I took the Manchester accent, circa 1830's, into consideration that I unravelled the mystery   Wink

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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 20 October 04 07:29 BST (UK) »
I have several strange names in my family.  Esubia or Eusebia, same lady spelled her name both ways.  Also a lady w/middle name of Sfa, named after her older sibs school teacher.  Don't know Where the teacher got it or if it was her first or last name.  Also a male first name Aylmer named after a place in Canada, maybe (b) there.
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« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 20 October 04 08:07 BST (UK) »
I know of a couple who called their daughter Friday cause (here's the clever bit) she was born on a Friday.

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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 20 October 04 08:34 BST (UK) »
I'd call that a lack of imagination... Roll Eyes  lol

I have a Reymes Gedge in fact i have two, father and son.  Shocked
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« Reply #11 on: Thursday 21 October 04 23:21 BST (UK) »
Here is a group of siblings that were born in Conneticut in the late 1700's in my tree.  Can you tell the males from females on the first name?

Tryphosa Ruggles
Artemas Ruggles
Rufus Ruggles (poor boy)
Tyrus Ruggles
Cyrenus Ruggles
Amarillis Ruggles

What were those parent's thinking?  My ancestor was lucky and they named him Benjamin Ruggles (first born so he was named after his father)
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Shields & Milner- Patrington  & Bilton, Yorkshire
Nixon & Bowers - Appleby, Broughton & Messingham, Lincolnshire
Hancock &Tyson- Tetford, Skendleby & Spilsby, Lincolnshire
Cochrane- Darvel, Loudon, Ayrshire
Yuill, Hardie- Paisley, Renfrewshire
Kennedy, Gardener & Clelland- Glasgow, Lanarkshire & Paisley, Renfrewshire

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Unusual Names.
« Reply #12 on: Monday 25 October 04 19:26 BST (UK) »
Hi All.
Further to my request for the meaning of Thomasin, it has got me thinking.
Has anyone come across unusual ancesteral christian names.? The modern day parents seem to use a scrabble board to arrive at their offspings name, but years ago it seemed to be biblical or names of royalty.
My favourite one to date is Tamar (a biblical name), - fairly uncommon I believe.

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Parsons- Wiltshire.
Masons- Farnham Surrey
Weedons- Herts and Bucks.
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« Reply #13 on: Monday 25 October 04 20:06 BST (UK) »
one of my ancestors christian name is Friend. Isit a biblical name?
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« Reply #14 on: Monday 25 October 04 20:48 BST (UK) »
 Huh   See more names at www.rootschat.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10379.msg41064#msg41062

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