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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #495 on: Thursday 02 November 17 21:04 GMT (UK) »
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #496 on: Thursday 02 November 17 21:09 GMT (UK) »
Surplice Fuller which over the generations became Surplus Fuller
Davis - Berkshire & London
Sutcliffe - Yorkshire & London
Harrington - Ireland and London
Fuller - Cambridgeshire and Essex
Waldron/Waldren - Devon & London
Frisby and Lee - Leicestershire
Hollingsworth - Essex
Williams - Ireland? and London
Ellis, Reed & Temple - London
Lane - ?
Surplice/Surplus - Cambridgeshire
Elwood - Cambridgeshire

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #497 on: Saturday 18 November 17 14:48 GMT (UK) »
Many of my oddest names have more to do with the way they combine rather than the names themselves. The girls name May leads to some interesting combinations.

My daughter in law has a cousin named May Kathleen Dance.

We have a family surnamed Hope. A couple of girls, Alice and Annie, have the middle name May.

I also found Laura May Read. She married Edward James Skidmore.

We also have the surname Maybee. A lot of them seem to have given their children 3 given names like Samuel Orinton Ernest Maybee. It reads as though they couldn’t quite decide.
Duff, Stewart, McEachern, McCann, McDougall, Walters, Beynon, Griggs, Smith, Mellor, Haigh, Gayfer, Bird, Burnside, McCool, Lowrey, Skinner, Tolmie, McIntosh, Proctor, Broadhead, Biernes, Winn, Woodley, Wyman, Robertson, Young, Cochrane, Carson, O'Malley, McKnight, Grose, Currie, Valentine, Higginson, Gillespie, Avery, Black, Moon, Richardson, Harvey, Cowling

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #498 on: Wednesday 13 December 17 22:49 GMT (UK) »
One of my ancestors born in 1750 in Essex was called Giffey Wyatt. She married Samuel Claydon in Essex in 1770. Giffey was born in Finchingfield, Essex. Her parents were Hugh and Rachel Wyatt. Not found a marriage of Hugh to Rachel yet but I guess the year in 1745 as his first wife died at the start of that year and him and Rachel had a child baptised at the end of the year. Unless they never actually walked down the altar, the name Giffey is a name to go on. The surname is quite rare and not yet established the name to Giffey Wyatt. Typing in anyone also baptised Giffey, a Giffey Shakeshaft was buried in Weathersfield, Essex in 1734. Food for thought.
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 #499 on: Wednesday 13 December 17 23:20 GMT (UK) »
My aunty married three times and her second husbands ancestors are the best.

He had a Harold Potter married to a Lilly. They had a daughter named Genevieve who went on to marry a Ronald Wesley.

My daughter doesnt care that they arent directly related to us. She just thinks that JK Rowling stole her great aunty's second husbands ancestors names. She is a huge Harry Potter fan lol.
Fisher - Australia, England
Redhead - Australia, England
Banks - Australia, England
Offord - Australia, England
O'Dwyer - Ireland
Thompson - Australia
Mitchell - Australia, Ireland
Dinte - Australia, England, Poland

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #500 on: Saturday 16 December 17 13:05 GMT (UK) »
Seems the Giffey Wyatt birth in 1750 is a name on her father's side. I have now just got back a few more generations. Hugh Wyatt born 1704 had a sister Giffey Wyatt. Their father Francis Wyatt was the son of Joshua Wyatt and Sarah Giffin. Seems Giffee/Giffey is a variant of Giffin.
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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 #501 on: Saturday 16 December 17 22:37 GMT (UK) »
Looking recently for Florence May West in 1911... I found her transcribed as Stana May Wist, Shorthand Sypert ???
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #502 on: Sunday 17 December 17 11:26 GMT (UK) »
 
Looking recently for Florence May West in 1911... I found her transcribed as Stana May Wist, Shorthand Sypert ???
Carol

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #503 on: Sunday 17 December 17 11:54 GMT (UK) »
Well serves me right for always moaning about my very common names, Williams, Brown (both sides), Smith and so on, always called Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Mary Ellen etc.

Today in my extended family I have come across ....drum roll....

Pool Rain McDonald !!!!

At first I thought it must be a transcription error, but no there it is plain to see on the baptism record.  I wondered if his mum and dad were the forerunners to the Beckhams and named their son after where he was conceived - a rainy day in Liverpool!!!   :o  ;D ;)

 a 'big Mac' in Liverpool.  ;D ;D ;D (Could just eat one)
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