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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #216 on: Monday 06 June 16 00:21 BST (UK) »

Me too  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
Mocquard ~ London, France
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #217 on: Monday 06 June 16 01:13 BST (UK) »
And I :o :o :o

I take it he did not behave the same way :)

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #218 on: Monday 06 June 16 03:45 BST (UK) »
No he was a very quiet and pleasant fellow.
Google comes in handy doesn't it?  ;)
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 #219 on: Monday 06 June 16 08:47 BST (UK) »

Yes indeed, Mr G**gle is a fountain of knowledge  ;D ;D
Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
Mocquard ~ London, France
Census info is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #220 on: Monday 06 June 16 08:54 BST (UK) »
Well, the original owner of the name certainly lived up to the meaning of it in one way, as he "forged" an empire...

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #221 on: Monday 06 June 16 09:39 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Geordie daughter on Monday 06 June 16 08:54 BST (UK)
Well, the original owner of the name certainly lived up to the meaning of it in one way, as he "forged" an empire...
Possibly the largest empire ever known.
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 #222 on: Thursday 09 June 16 08:38 BST (UK) »
How about Mary Virgin, indexed as Virgin, Mary? I did a double-take when I saw this one.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #223 on: Thursday 09 June 16 09:23 BST (UK) »
I found the name - Fanny Towel - yesterday. It just made me giggle.  ::) childish I know  ::)

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #224 on: Thursday 09 June 16 11:11 BST (UK) »

Very childish , but I giggled too ;D ;D ;D
Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
Mocquard ~ London, France
Census info is Crown Copyright http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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