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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #513 on: Wednesday 27 December 17 15:56 GMT (UK) »
Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg, the present monarch Lizzie Windsor's real name! Don't let them kid you!  ;D

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Under UK law, you are who you say you are unless someone can prove otherwise. Her majesty can back up her claim to be a Windsor with a matching birth cert - Jun quarter of 1926 St. George's Hanover Square 1a 583 - and no doubt any number of witnesses.  :)
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #514 on: Wednesday 27 December 17 17:15 GMT (UK) »
Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg, the present monarch Lizzie Windsor's real name! Don't let them kid you!  ;D

Skoosh.
Under UK law, you are who you say you are unless someone can prove otherwise. Her majesty can back up her claim to be a Windsor with a matching birth cert - Jun quarter of 1926 St. George's Hanover Square 1a 583 - and no doubt any number of witnesses.  :)

Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark gave up the use of his Greek and Danish titles before marrying Princess Elizabeth, heiress to the British throne

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #515 on: Wednesday 27 December 17 21:29 GMT (UK) »
Of course dobfarm, Phillip took the name Mountbatten which was another invented name but due to political back-stabbing he wasn't permitted to pass this onto his kids so they used his wife's invented name! an inventive lot!

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #516 on: Wednesday 27 December 17 22:22 GMT (UK) »
Pint of Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg, please?

Thought it also sounded like a Scandinavian / Norwegian / German Lager.


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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #517 on: Wednesday 27 December 17 23:55 GMT (UK) »
Pint of Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg, please?

Thought it also sounded like a Scandinavian / Norwegian / German Lager.

After you had 7 pints of it, bet the barmaid would have problems understanding what pint of you wanted- maybe sound like:- "Squilwig holisny soniburger gluckerbulger"  ;D ;D ;D  - hic-! - burp!  :D
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #518 on: Thursday 28 December 17 17:44 GMT (UK) »
Not in my own tree (although possibly related to an 'in-law' of mine) but while checking the census index of 1881 for the wife of my g g/uncle (McGravie) prior to their marriage I found a...

Wingford McGravie (age 50) b c 1831

On SP (Scotlandspeople)

I'm unsure if it was a transcription error as he doesn't appear on any other index on SP as Wingford  :-\

Annie

Add...1871 he's Wineford McGravy (age 32) b c 1839  & 1891 he's Winisford McGravie (age 48) b c 1843

Glad he's not mine as the window for his birth is very wide!
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #519 on: Sunday 31 December 17 00:52 GMT (UK) »
My 11th great grandparents Goddard HEPDEN [1550 - 1633] & Anne FRY [? - 1604] of Sussex, England were Puritans and as a result named some of their children:
* Retorne
* Goodgift/Godsgift
* Hopestill
* Fearnot
* Thankfull
* Constant
and then for a little light relief there was:
* John
* Elizabeth, and lastly
* Herbert

As an interesting name I have often wondered how the parents would have called to their child when the child was named;
* Shadwell Morley BARKWORTH
* Fulwar Charles Nigel Herbert Colquitt CRAVEN


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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #520 on: Monday 01 January 18 13:11 GMT (UK) »
I had a great Aunt Silence. I do hope they shouted her in public places  ;D

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #521 on: Monday 01 January 18 15:30 GMT (UK) »
My 8xgt.grandmother was named  Welthin....... ;D    I wonder if she lived up to her name.
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