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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #54 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 17:08 GMT (UK) »
I think in the North of England, the baptismal name "Doctor" was often used for e seventh child (or it may have been a seventh son). There was some sort of feeling that such a child would be gifted in healing, I was told.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #55 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 17:15 GMT (UK) »
One ancestor sibling married a woman called Spanisher Robson.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #56 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 18:15 GMT (UK) »
I have a relative whose middle name is Royal, as he was born in the year of Queen Elizabeth's coronation.

So was I, but my middle name is ................Elizabeth.  I'd have quite liked Royal.  :D
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #57 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 18:52 GMT (UK) »
Nothing really strange with my lot except the name Stewart being used as a girls name for a few generations.

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Aldridge/London
Sills/London/Kent
Hartwell/London
Salkeld/Cumberland/Northumberland
Robinson/London
Stewart/Ireland/Scotland/England


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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #58 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 11:26 GMT (UK) »
Nothing really strange with my lot except the name Stewart being used as a girls name for a few generations.

Sharon.

I have a Willie in my tree who is a girl.  I initially saw it on the census (she's my 4xgrt aunt)  and wondered if either it was an error saying female or if it was short for Wilhelmina.  Turns out her name was just Willie, I don't know why.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #59 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 11:59 GMT (UK) »
Had a teacher whose middle name was Anzac, because he was born on Anzac Day.
I have a relative in my tree whose middle name was Anzac. His father fought at Gallipoli.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #60 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 12:12 GMT (UK) »
In searches of Coombs I found a lady called Catherine Eltham Coombs, born in Eltham, London. First time I found a person with a middle name of her birthplace.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #61 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 12:16 GMT (UK) »
Willie as a female name seems quite common in America. The great Willie Mae Thornton, also known as Big Mama, recorded the original "Hound Dog" and Robert Johnson fans will recognise the line "Wiliie Mae, you will be my wife some day"
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #62 on: Wednesday 17 February 16 12:18 GMT (UK) »
Not an ancestor, but when working in insurance I came across a Victoria Plumtree. I also remember Raspberry as the middle name of a man.
Sinclair: Lanarkshire & Antrim; McDougall: Bute; Ramsay: Invernesshire; Thomson & Robertson: Perthshire; Brown: Argyll; Scott: Ayrshire: Duff: Fife.