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Offline ..claire..

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #306 on: Thursday 28 July 16 21:51 BST (UK) »

 ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #307 on: Monday 15 August 16 20:39 BST (UK) »
Just come across a Reverend C.H.R. Cocup in a marriage announcement....

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #308 on: Monday 15 August 16 21:23 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Geordie daughter on Monday 15 August 16 20:39 BST (UK)
Just come across a Reverend C.H.R. Cocup in a marriage announcement....

Mmmm!! the mind boggles

One of my friends  past rellies was Shadrach.
Lancashire- Moss,Broadbent,Olley,Dobson,Dickenson,
Norfolk-Olley,Knowles,Bunn,Pooley,Scott,Vince
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #309 on: Monday 15 August 16 21:53 BST (UK) »

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Just come across a Reverend C.H.R. Cocup in a marriage announcement....

The mind boggles indeed !!!

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Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
Mocquard ~ London, France
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #310 on: Monday 15 August 16 23:14 BST (UK) »
I have a few unusual names
Foreman Theodore Crawford
Lettice Crawford who married Thomas Pettus in1688
Joseph Duck who was son-in-law of Foreman Crawford
Ireson Walton Selman

A quick trawl through my index of individuals in Family Tree Maker led me to the above lot
Crawford Yorkshire & Lincolnshire,
Anderson Durham & Northumberland,
Rowley Northumberland & London,
Walton London
Hewitt Norfolk
Cox Yorkshire & Warwickshire

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #311 on: Tuesday 16 August 16 12:21 BST (UK) »
True story: I have an Effie in my tree, not short for Euphemia or anything else, while my brother-in-law also has an Effie. His is short for “F’n cat!” It got it's name when he had to climb his tree to get her down. Cheers, Peter
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #312 on: Tuesday 16 August 16 12:59 BST (UK) »
Have had a great time reading all your posts - some laughs too  ;D ;D

My lot must have been boring as the oddest name I can find in my family is  Vyllet Annal.

Have two " Effies " as well both short for Euphemia -my grandmother and my cousin. Thankfully my cousin was older than me so she got gran's name and not me  :D :D

Will keep looking

Dorrie

Small, County Antrim & Dundee
Dickson, County Down & Dundee
Madden, County Westmeath
Patrick, Fife
Easson, Fife
Leslie, Fife
Paterson, Fife

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #313 on: Tuesday 16 August 16 15:10 BST (UK) »
Recently found an "Amorous Shackleton" - don't know what he grew up like!
Threlfall (Southport), Isherwood (lancs & Canada), Newbould + Topliss(Derby), Keating & Cummins (Ireland + lancs), Fisher, Strong& Casson (all Cumberland) & Downie & Bowie, Linlithgow area Scotland . Also interested in Leigh& Burrows,(Lancashire) Griffiths (Shropshire & lancs), Leaver (Lancs/Yorks) & Anderson(Cumberland and very elusive)

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #314 on: Wednesday 17 August 16 21:28 BST (UK) »
No relation to my own Duff's but found this while looking for a will on SP.

Norwich Duff 25/09/1862 Captain then Vice Admiral in Royal Navy, thereafter residing in Bath.

Had to "Go ogle" him & a very interesting read.

Annie   
South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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