What's the oddest name you've found?

[Treetotal]

Venadora Perry...often mistranscribed as VenceDora...I also have a Providence Butt 

Carol

Hate to tell you, Carol, but Vence Dora Perry was my grandfathers cousin - and he (and my father)  always spoke of her as "Vence Dora" (pronounced Ven-cee Dora)

That's not to say it isn't odd, though!

What a coincidence.....In the 1901 census she is listed as Vena Dora Blower after marrying so I assumed this was correct....she is down as Vence Dora in 1881 census though...she was sister of my OH's Great Grandad, Ernest Perry born Castle Northwick, Cheshire....all the Perry males were Boatmen and Lightermen.
I have a lovely photo of Ernest Perry with his Daughter Elsie and her Husband Horace taken on the street in Liverpool in the 1940s
Small world eh!!!!
Carol

[Erato]

Vence Dora.  What a great name.  Vencedora = [female] winner in Spanish.

[mrsruz]

Who in their right mind would name their child Admiral Horatio Nelson Firth

[PrawnCocktail]

Vence Dora.  What a great name.  Vencedora = [female] winner in Spanish.

Really?? What a lovely thing to call her!

Reckon they must have picked that up from a Spanish boat / sailor in Liverpool docks sometime.

How is it pronounced in Spanish?

[Treetotal]

Vence Dora.  What a great name.  Vencedora = [female] winner in Spanish.

Thanks for that...you learn something new every day on here...have made a note of it.
PC...Cuz...... ....photos are on their way to you
Carol

[Erato]

Vencedora.  How you pronounce it depends on where you're from, Spain or Latin America.  The 'c' sort of mutates into a 'th' kind of sound in Castilian but sounds like an 's' in Latin America.  Here are some samples:

http://www.pronouncekiwi.com/vencedora

[JAKnighton]

The name doesn't sound unusual at all to me now, but when I first started researching I only knew up to my great-grandfather so I was just blindly looking at whatever Knightons came up in searches.

I had a long list of Knightons in the Birth Indexes in the area dating back to 1837 and I was just browsing through them, with no clue who I was related to or not.

I came across "Jabez Knighton". I thought, what an odd name! Turns out he was my 3x great grandfather.

I quite like the name now, I'm potentially considering bringing it back into the family should I ever have kids.

[..claire..]

It is a nice name Jabez, but going back to KNIGHTON ~ not sure where my 8x Gt Grandfather originated from but crops up in Saltash in Cornwall.

An earlier ancestor was called NIGHTEN Jeffery from Madron which is a fair way from Saltash.

 I have read that the first instance the name Nighten/Knighton crops up is in Worcestershire where they held a family seat.

claire

[Aussie Roy]

I found a ' Friday Reeve Robinson'    Anything to do with Man Friday and Robinson Crusoe ?