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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #315 on: Thursday 18 August 16 00:05 BST (UK) »
Not really odd, these ones from the top of my head, people I was as school with, and a few friends - don't hear many kids with them these days.  All in their 70s these days.

Lynette, Janice, Maureen, Leonie, Roderick, Tony, Philip, Diana, Geraldine, Yolande, Kevin, Brian, Garry, Glenn, Maurice, Warren. Graeme, Peter, Donald.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #316 on: Thursday 18 August 16 02:23 BST (UK) »
This has got to be the strangest census transcription I've come across on Anc* ever.

Look for a Thomas BIGTOP - tiger slayer :o bn 1841 Nottinghamshire in a lodging house in Chelsea.

His lodging buddies include

Gustave Stinkpoor
Tante Toppie
Thomas Pushard
Henry Dandelion
Oliver Limerick
Frederick October

And more oddities  :-\ :-\

RG11/ 76/ 45/ 37

They even look like what they've been transcribed as, it can't be real.

The mind boggles ;D ;D

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Mocquard ~ London, France
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #317 on: Thursday 18 August 16 02:30 BST (UK) »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D. I think someone's been pulling the enumerator's leg!!
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FLEMING,   Ireland
DUNNELL,  England
PAULSON,  England
DOUGLAS, Scotland, Ireland, NZ
WALKER,   Scotland
WATSON,  England, Ayrshire, Scotland, NZ
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #318 on: Thursday 18 August 16 02:40 BST (UK) »
Definitely pulling something...

Same house

Mouse Regan..... Rat catcher

 ;D ;D :D
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #319 on: Thursday 18 August 16 05:16 BST (UK) »
Quote from: ..claire.. on Thursday 18 August 16 02:23 BST (UK)
This has got to be the strangest census transcription I've come across on Anc* ever.

Look for a Thomas BIGTOP - tiger slayer :o bn 1841 Nottinghamshire in a lodging house in Chelsea.

His lodging buddies include

Gustave Stinkpoor
Tante Toppie
Thomas Pushard
Henry Dandelion
Oliver Limerick
Frederick October

And more oddities  :-\ :-\

RG11/ 76/ 45/ 37

They even look like what they've been transcribed as, it can't be real.

The mind boggles ;D ;D

Claire
  Entertainers  do like to have "Stage Names"

Nowadays,   perhaps   some people  wish to stay under the HMRC Radar.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #320 on: Thursday 18 August 16 08:41 BST (UK) »

I totally agree with stage names SB

but...

Pancho Flipback... grave digger
Charles Horsefesh... dog fancier

I rather think they have had a few too many jugs of ale ;D
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #321 on: Friday 19 August 16 16:44 BST (UK) »
Not "odd" in terms but certainly different.

While researching my "Hogg" line, I found this on familysearch but it's not a transcription error as it's on SP exactly as it is:

Hughdora Hogg b 1873 Arbroath, Angus

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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

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #322 on: Friday 19 August 16 17:11 BST (UK) »
Hughdora is probably a variation on Eudora which I've heard of before.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #323 on: Friday 19 August 16 21:40 BST (UK) »
I have a Venadora/Vena-Dora..sometimes transcribed as Vence-Dora....also a Lucilla.
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