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Offline Janelle

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 11 February 16 12:03 GMT (UK) »
Doctor Radford b 1734 Kentisbeare, 5th child of William and Ann (nee Grant) and a brother of my Alice.

He is Doctor in the registers when he marries and dies. How does a vicar who would have a doctorate from a University let a tenant farmer chose this or any honorary title for a name?  Rhetorical me.  ::)

I hope these guys tried to counsel their flock and put up at least a token fight for the poor poppet that scores any of these nomenclatures.

Salute,

Janelle

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 11 February 16 12:09 GMT (UK) »
My 2x ggrandfather called his first daughter Anne & his second daughter Quintilia Elizabeth.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 11 February 16 12:09 GMT (UK) »
The Forskin family have provided endless amusement over the years.
Nottinghamshire: Billyard; Fletcher
Lincolnshire: Beck; Smith
Leicestershire: Goadby; Iliffe;
Warwickshire: Bradbury; Friswell; Gilliver; Beesley

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 11 February 16 12:10 GMT (UK) »
Mind you my name is silly and typical mid 1900's made up.  ;D

I like it better than Michelle, Narelle, Rochelle.  ;)  and it almost rhymmes with my twin sister's name without her's having the elle spelling.

Salute,

Janelle ... some sort of girly Frenchified John


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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 11 February 16 12:13 GMT (UK) »
"I also have a Providence Butt"

Thank goodness for Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin. There's hope for you yet.  ::) ::) ::)

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Malky
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
Cheeky....I suppose I asked for that.. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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  WILSON;-Wiltshire.
 SOUL;-Gloucestershire.
 SANSUM;-Berkshire-Wiltshire
 BASSON-BASTON;- Berkshire,- Oxfordshire.
 BRIDGES;- Wiltshire.
 DOWDESWELL;-Wiltshire,Gloucestershire
 JORDAN;- Berkshire.
 COX;- Berkshire.
 GOUDY;- Suffolk.
 CHATFIELD;-Sussex-- London
 MORGAN;-Blaenavon-Abersychan
 FISHER;- Berkshire.
 BLOMFIELD-BLOOMFIELD-BLUMFIELD;-Suffolk.
DOVE. Essex-London
YOUNG-Berkshire
ARDEN.
PINEGAR-COLLIER-HUGHES-JEFFERIES-HUNT-MOSS-FRY

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 11 February 16 13:07 GMT (UK) »
Sellestana Anne Pamalena Lavinia Spencer. I reckon they called her Anne for ease though  ;D
Ralph. Lever. Young. Lasham. Denigan. Sawyer. Moore. Stone

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 11 February 16 13:09 GMT (UK) »
Hello
In my tree there's a

Paul Onion marrying Sarah Cheese in Bridgenorth

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 13 February 16 03:05 GMT (UK) »
I do have a Swan marrying a Bird in one of my wife's lines.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 13 February 16 08:23 GMT (UK) »
I recently found the delightfully-named Keeling Brimstone.

He is not an ancestor - he is the servant of an ancestor who was a blacksmith, and I suspect that he was actually an employee in the forge rather than a "servant" in the domestic service sense.

He also witnessed one of the family wills, and was a beneficiary of another.

All identified names up to and including my great x5 grandparents: Abbot Andrews Baker Blenc(h)ow Brothers Burrows Chambers Clifton Cornwell Escott Fisher Foster Frost Giddins Groom Hardwick Harris Hart Hayho(e) Herman Holcomb(e) Holmes Hurley King-Spooner Martindale Mason Mitchell Murphy Neves Oakey Packman Palmer Peabody Pearce Pettit(t) Piper Pottenger Pound Purkis Rackliff(e) Richardson Scotford Sherman Sinden Snear Southam Spooner Stephenson Varing Weatherley Webb Whitney Wiles Wright