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Following on from the 'commonest name thread', what are the most unusual names that people have encountered?
I have twins called...
Caswallon and Gwythfyr Price
;D
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I can't beat those two Amy, and I put these on the commonest name posting, but might as well do it again if the topic is splitting!
Mirwen/Murven/Mirwin - one person, different spelling every time I come across it!
Kezia
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The only one more recent I can think of is my Great Uncle "Iori" (and no it wasnt Iorwerth just plain Iori) his brother was a Talfryn (Tall Hill)
Further back in the 1770's I have a "Husofut" this is the only record of his name he was the partner (never married) of Ursula Taylor. My Taylor line are just glad all the children took her last name!
~ The name has probably been changed over time and this is the only translation we have now. I am still unsure if this name is his Christian or Surname! :P
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Mt GGGfather's sister was named Damaris - quite a pretty name.
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Hi,
The most unusual so far is Cutting Bell
I remember my Grandma talking fondly of Uncle Cutting. At the time I thought Cutting was his surname. However, since researching the family tree, I found him, by the name of Cutting Bell. I turns out he was named after the surname of his Grandmother (my Grandmother's Great Grandmother if you can follow that).
Sue
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It's got to be dear old Humphredo Yallop! born in 1672 in Wilby Norfolk.
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I have
Home [M], Sidonia[F], and Mafeking[M]
Tom G
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I have a Gerhard born 1801 in Hanover.
Kimi
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How about Nimrod Buckett? A Greenwich ropemaker by trade.
Honeybun
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Time A Day
an innkeeper in Kent ;D
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Mine are:
Courtenay Cruwys (Crews), one of my GGG etc. Grandfathers, that's right, a male.
Lettithea Agnes Baserga.
Amongst my Mason relations: Enoch, Ham, Japeth, Jezebel, Methuselah & Shem.
Farrell (aka Francis) Burke.
Webb & Gideon Blackham.
And also, Tryphena Matthews.
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Taster Bagley
from Essex. Haven't found out his occupation yet.
Nell
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off the top of my head here with this one
ive found Melinda, Hermann, Gomer , but theres more if i trawl thru my trees
joanne
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hi there
i have: Lot, Booz/Boaz, Isit/Ezit, Mercy, Doctor, Obed, Comfort and Carpenter
legs11
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I have a lady in my tree called Enough Barker but funny enough she wasn't the last to be born three more children followed! ::)
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Aww Bless! Poor kid lol
I used to to go to school with a little lad called Olly. I'd always assumed he was called Oliver. It was,t till years later i found out his name was Orsen. Just a shame his surname was Cart. I could never understand his parents mentality.
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Astor Hero. He named his son Astor Hero Junior.
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Miharena Buckland, Britannia Stokes Buckland, Tryphena Buckland, Timothy Turnit Buckland, Freedom Buckland......
Timothy was a tinsman (Gypsy, TInsman, Brazier) and his wife's name was Peenels all of these are ancestors of my sister in law... she also has a Leas Buckland ::) we don't know is Leas a he or a she??????
I would be delighted to have some unusual names.... at least then I might be on the right track ! ... I mean to say if I come across any more Johns and Marys, Daniels and Peter!
ah well one day the wall will crash down... I live in hope !
Best wishes
Mo
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Had a blank mind one day so instead of searching directly backwards I went off sideways and found a Deliverance, I just hope she didn't have a brother called Evil ;D
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hi all,
this person is not a relative, but she is a friend of a friend and her name was BAVIER, pronounced BAYVIER
legs11
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I have one called Lledru Rollin Epps. He changed it to William Epps later - don't blame him.
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I was helping someone the other day tracing Richard Light,when I saw on a census his daughter Fan.!!!
I also came across a chap recently looking for his gt gt grandma Faith Hope Charity Smith- a romany.
Needless to say I only found her listed as such once.
By the time she was a teenager she was just plain Faith.
Mine are all Henry,Albert, George etc and I long for an unusual name to look for.But I bet it would always be copied down wrongly ::)
Carol
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lol ;D ;D
years ago i was a florist and was taking the details of the bride, her name was Theresa Green, bet she was glad she was getting married ! ;)
joanne
Aww Bless! Poor kid lol
I used to to go to school with a little lad called Olly. I'd always assumed he was called Oliver. It was,t till years later i found out his name was Orsen. Just a shame his surname was Cart. I could never understand his parents mentality.
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My Great Great Grandmother Yarwood, named her tenth son, EVERY. I can only assume she said to hubby William, Every time you drop your trousers I get pregnant.
We now have a new baby Luca....I just hope to goodness he doesn't get called 'filthy' at school.
Su
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Hi,
In my husband's family there was a Christopher Strong Beer. As well as a few other Strong Beer's.
My family has very common names and biblical names like Ephraim, Absalom and Jonas. Quite boring!
Magrat
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There was a man named NELSON MONUMENT, he also named his son Nelson Monument.
1881 Census
Nelson MONUMENT Son Male 8 Est. Dereham, Norfolk, England
Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 1980 / 5
Page Number 5
1901 Census
Nelson Monument 29 Dereham, Norfolk, England Head East Dereham Norfolk
Nelson Monument 1 Dereham, Norfolk, England Son East Dereham Norfolk
Idoni Mounment 3 months Dereham, Norfolk, England Daughter East Dereham Norfolk
Source information: RG13/1872
Registration district: Mitford
Sub-registration district: East Dereham
ED, institution, or vessel: 6
Folio: 109
Page: 15
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I can't beat those two Amy, and I put these on the commonest name posting, but might as well do it again if the topic is splitting!
Mirwen/Murven/Mirwin - one person, different spelling every time I come across it!
Kezia
In my tree I've got Edmund/Edmond/Edward - agian, the same person - coming across a different variation everywhere I look!
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Digory Hext and jeronimo Hornblow?
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My cousin really named her dau. Belle Lee. Poor thing wanted to change it to Elizabeth. Belle was from the grandmother but no idea why the Lee!.
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Further back in the 1770's I have a "Husofut" this is the only record of his name he was the partner (never married) of Ursula Taylor. My Taylor line are just glad all the children took her last name!
~ The name has probably been changed over time and this is the only translation we have now. I am still unsure if this name is his Christian or Surname! :P
Could "Husofut" possibly be a corruption or abbreviation of "Jehosaphat"?
Anna
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I have two great aunts called Flantan Horne and Fulantua Horne - both died in infancy in the late 1800's - no idea where they got these names from as their other children were normally named, Frederick, Daniel etc.
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I have a Zankey Pilch!
But on my mothers side, her great uncles wife was called kierenhappuck Hillman!!!!
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One I have come across is Eusebius, a Biblical name.
A publican in Dereham was called Maha Tuck but his full name was Mahershalalhashbaz, the story goes that his father wanted to call him Uz, the shortest name in the Bible but the Vicar refused. So, dad called him the longest name instead.
One of my own ancestors was called Aminta but known as Minty.
Another was called Owner, after a famous local Politician and others in the family were called Miles after another politician.
Names are great, they sometimes give an insight into our ancestor's inner most thoughts.
Teddybear
Oh & by the way, I take my name on here from my GG Grandfather who was Edmund, called Ted, Bear. He was born in 1843 before the famous 1904 remark by Teddy Roosevelt.
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Wesson the christian name of my G.Grandfather.that name was carried on throughout the Jones family. I have never seen another Wesson anywhere exept the odd one in Wales. So if you are a Jones and have a Wesson in the family. You jus gotta be connected ;D
Celia
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My best mates' Great Grandfather (I think?) was named Whitbread. Apparantly, he came to an untimely death as a result of an accident.
:)
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I also came across a chap recently looking for his gt gt grandma Faith Hope Charity Smith- a romany.
Needless to say I only found her listed as such once.
By the time she was a teenager she was just plain Faith.
I'm doing some indexing at Medway Register Office and found one little girl born in the workhouse who was named Faith Hope. I guess her unmarried mother thought she'd had enough charity.
In my own family the most unusual surname is CUPHIS
BrendaP
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I think my most unusual has to be, erm....mine :'(
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I found a girl called "Turtle" today!!! Turtle Kittier married John Whicher
Imagine, Turtle Whicher, what a name!
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HOW ABOUT THIS NAME EION ELIZABET CROFTS MARRIED A FLEMING, TRY LIVING WIYH IT AND THEN THINK OF THE JOKES, DID MEET A CHAP ONCE CALLED JAMES BOND WE SAID SNAP. IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE NAME EION CAN FROM LET ME KNOW AS I CANNOT FIND IT ANYWHERE, AND AT 68 YEARS OLD I DO NOT THINK ITS FROM IAN FLEMING(JAMES BOND) CHEERS EION FLEMING
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My Gran was called Asenath. I haven't come across anyone else with the same name (yet!).
tabitha
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While researching my Edg(e)ley branch I was getting a little bit confused with all the Johns, Jameses, Henrys and Williams, so I was quite pleased when I stumbled across a couple of relatives - brothers - born in the 1890s:
Adolphus Bertie Edgeley and Major Gaskoin Edgeley
And again, siblings had normal names!!! Makes you wonder what they were thinking!
Emma ;)
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Has to be my Gt Gran, so far. She was Modhitt. The only other instances I have ever found are for her daughter Modhitt Vera May - always known as Vera and two nieces.
When I first started trawling graveyards - on my honeymoon, much to my wife's displeasure - I came across Eliza Body. It struck me as so funny I took a photo. Later I mentioned this to my Nan and she said "Oh yes, I knew her"!!
Most unfortunate name I have come across belongs to the three generations in Sheffield the most senior of whom was living at 90 Cricket Inn Road, Sheffield in the 1881 census ref RG11/4654 folio 62 page 32 with the other two generations at 21 Lovel Street, Brightside, Bierlow, Sheffield RG11/4663 folio 15 page 29. Check it out for a good giggle :o
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Hi All,
Not sure which section this should be in - uncommon, unusal, funny!!
I have lots of "Florence" so why was I supprised to find this one!
Partington Florence Nightingale Barton I. 8c 586
She looked a bit like a nurse as well although it didn't help as she died aged 21. :'( :'(
Cheers
Keith
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hi all
nice pretty picture, keith. I have just found a Wessell and Ubsdale on the tree. Any clue as to where these names came from?
legs11
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I Think I Have a Very Uncommon name .. I was Born Iria louisa Slater in 1964 Liverpool.. I Still Haven't come across my name in England Yet even thought there are a Few In Italy... But My Parents have No Italian Conncetions.. My Sisters Names are Lynn and Ann.. I Often wonder why i was Given Such a Uncommon Name... When i was Little i always wanted to be Called Wendy..
Regards
Iria
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Hi Iria,
Your mum didn't like Italian Icecream did she? ;) ;)
Cheers
Keith
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em maybe Keith..lol ;) Pitty i don't share the same Liking for it... ;D
Regards Iria
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A female cousin of my father's was called ROWIE Morris - I'd not heard of it before or since ?? Anyone else come across it ?
??? ???
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Although not one of my own ancestors, but a neighbour to one of mine on the 1881 census. To be honest with you, I am hoping it is some sort of error - or is it Horror :-\
Kenemhappuck Walters age 10 living in the Welsh Valleys ???
I thought perhaps it was intended to be something else - but what?
Any ideas.
(The siblings names were William; David; Josiah; and Eleanor Ann:)
Caroline
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I have a Mary Brown Stout and my Grandaunt's husband had a great name if he was a porn star....Ernest Dick !
Steve.
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My only unusual one is Jody.... my husband! I',m sure people think he is my lesbian partner!
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Just found Tassell Stevens born c1855.
Found him first in 1871 as Sassell so thought it was a mistranscription for Cecil but no, there he is in 1881, 91 and 01 clearly down as Tassell ??? His brothers and sisters were James, John, Ann and Sarah so where on earth did they pick that name from?
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Wonder if he ever bumped into the other Tassell in 1871 - Tassell Culver, from Faversham? :)
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The 1881 census index has Nutty Nelly Slack but the image shows just Nelly! Was this a transcriber with a sense of humour?
In my own tree I have a Trulove Dunk (a man !).
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Only two "unusual" names in my family tree.
Pythagoras Quarry (b abt 1770) - an ag.lab (his grandson - a bank clerk was also given the name Pythagoras!)
and
Pithenia/Purthany Quarry (nee Chappin)
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I thought Honeybourne was unusual untill I read these others, now it seems quite normal.
When my dad was alive he always smiled when the sugar puffs advert came on the tv as he said he had a distant relative named
Honeybear Workman. Years later I found it was Honeybourne. Tidgie
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Not in my tree, but...
1881, Birkenhead,
Hans Sandwich - a teacher.
Bet he cut the mustard with his pupils ::)
Paul
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CW- It's a mistranscription ( or a lousy spelling) of Kerenhappuch, a Hebrew name meaning "horn of antimony". In the Old Testament, she was one of Job's daughters, along with Jemimah and Keziah, who were descibed as the most beautiful in the land!
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Thirza Ferris (a girl by the way) born in 1764 in Connecticut.
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On the English side I have a Frankish Lundy (his mother's maiden name), on the French-Canadian I have lots as they were named after saints--Jovite, Flavie, Odince, ect.
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Lordy Lordy!!dont we have fun?Came across this forename while pulling in All my surname threads(MILLIONS!!), try this for size.Ughtred??? So,when exploring got a load of rubbish,UNTIL!!!Spooky bit nowwww,had a book from library,historical/fiction,in first page this name jumped out,and thats not the only spooky incident since being addicted to this game.
Cheers,Goggy.
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My grandfather's brother had a son named Vashni Elijah who unfortunately died at age 5. Think Vashni might be a Biblical name but not sure.
And one of my very distant relatives named his daughter Hanutal.
I also have a distant cousin baptised Shelomoth but he seems to have used only his second name which was Joshua. Don't blame him.
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goggy - Ughtred, according to my little book of names, is an Anglo-Saxon name meaning "twilight counsel".
saar3 - Vashni was the firstborn son of Samuel (1 Chr 28:6), but only if you use certain versions of the Bible: otherwise he's called Joel. ???
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I have a Bedalled Cunningham in my tree......1871 Census Liverpool. I think she was really a Bedelia and being Catholic Irish was known by the church as Bedellium!! I think the enumerator had a senior moment when faced with such details and there she is for posterity......Bedalled
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Rambler,ta for that look up.Seems earlier than that, this fiction was set in King Alfreds days;Ughtred was a Cumbrian as was his family.His name was carried down from father to son ad infinitum.Just what WE need ay!!
Cheers,Goggy.
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Anitpas How (male!)........but while I was tracking down the How/e links I came across a family with the surname of 'Don't know how' in the USA.....well, that's what is on the LDS site, anyway.
Al.
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I have Nehemiah Epaphrodites Moon in my tree.
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Wesson the christian name of my G.Grandfather.that name was carried on throughout the Jones family. I have never seen another Wesson anywhere exept the odd one in Wales. So if you are a Jones and have a Wesson in the family. You jus gotta be connected ;D
Celia
Hi - saw this and couldn't resist replying! I am a Wesson (an Alan Wesson), and I have only ever met one other (I ordered a camera battery last year and offered to spell my name as usual; the lady on the phone told me I didn't need to because she was one too!). I am an author of language text books that are widely used in British schools, so a lot of kids have at least seen the name while they were bored to tears in German lessons! To my amazement, there are at least 2 other Alan Wessons in the UK, one of whom runs a shoe shop in Ilkeston! There are also quite a few Eassons (which is presumably the opposite!). If it's of any interest, my grandfather did a bit of research on the name and found that most of us are apparently in the USA (over there, it is a best-selling brand of cooking oil - and of course, half of a well-known brand of gun!). Finally, my wife has an even stranger maiden name - she was called Puddepha until we got married. Sadly, she only has sisters, and as their branch of the family is the last one left it will die with her generation. I have never forgiven myself for missing the opportunity to double-barrel it! Best wishes and thanks for brightening my evening - Alan Wesson
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from my tree we have...
Lity May Dove - Lity is said Lightie, not Littie
Bondelia - female
Joe Carmel - female
Brackston or Braxton
Lemuel
Candy - no, not Candice, just Candy
Callianne
Avaline - female
Sharren Peninah - female
Bethel Ree - female
Cydia - female
Epting - male
Ramoth - female
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My favourite is Agrippa Small who married Sarah Pratt and presumably had lots of small pratts!
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Found this chap yesterday - Bamlet Neptune Switzer age 27, Curate of Crowborough, a Birtish Subject, Born at Sea - well that accounts for the Neptune but where did Bamlet come from ???
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found this cousin recently. He'd be younger than me now.
Lane Shelnutt
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God I have heaps thanks to a large section of the tree being German and Polish
Scoyiana Kahler - female
Dariusz Kajdana - male
Malgorzata Dopke - female
Otila Cierpka - female
but the english side were sometimes just as interesting:
Pleasance Case - female - I have 6 so far so one might think that the family was very pleasant ;)
Cook Case - male
one for the aussies here:
Melba Breen - female - named after dame Nellie I assume :)
Also I would love to know where the following name originates:
Sisera Watters - female
Jenny
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Also I would love to know where the following name originates:
Sisera Watters - female
I have only come across it as a male name: Sisera was killed by Jael, who hammered a tent-peg through his head as he slept - full story in Judges 4. Great favourite with the Sunday School kids!
MR
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Thanks MR
I sould have suspected it was biblical - interesting that it is a female in my case :)
Jenny
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Mines not uncommon just a funny combinations.
One of my gggg..uncles was Green LEAF
Also in my LEAF family is Vine LEAF
Also while searching my COX/COXKS Family i came accross
Comfort COCKS
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My great great great grandfather was a Wilkinson Bracewell, his mothers surname being Wilkinson.
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Not the strangest names but thought were slightly funny - we have John Balls m Christiana Coxon c 1860ish!!
Their ggson and gggson were then bothe names John Thomas Balls!! Have found in my Balls searching Christmas Balls and John Banister Balls!!
And they talk about some weird names for todays children???
Valerie
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My GGrandmother was born Scholastica Hart
great name when you first start searching (not many about)
Eddie
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Hi all
I thought WHENT was an unusual surname until i started reading all your posts. So why is it that im called Mrs Wheat, White, Want, Wint etc apart from when a bill arrives and funnily enough its got the correct spelling of my surname on. Its funny when they want money off me they can get my details correct.
Cookie
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I have a Zante Claude and Dh's favourite G-Aunt
Irmgard Piddle
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Hi
I have a MUNDY WRIGHT and just found out about HOSEA TUGBY not sure how he fits into my family though yet.
flame
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I have a three brothers called Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego in my family tree.
They were all sons of a preacherman ==figures-- and died in infancy -- to save themselves from having to spell their names at school, perhaps.
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While researching the "Clives" side of my family,the most unusual name i have come across so far is Zephaniah Clive,born around 1817.
Stephen
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I know it's not that unusual, but my g g g granny was a Comfort Phelps. On marriage she became Comfort Close which I think is rather lovely. She had a daughter named after her otherwise she would have been entered into Censuswhack ;D
Debbie
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for some first names, in my family i have a Ezra, Adolphus, Bethel and Lofthouse. Nice and easy to find on the census. Helps to narrow down marriages on freeBMD aswell. ;D
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Anyone found a UNIACKE,forename,found in the way back days ,looking for naming patterns,family traditions etc
Goggy
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Union Jack ;D
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I seem to remember from my school history lessons that the Puritans were always good for an unusual moniker. One I recall was a guy named Praisegod Barebones.
Does anybody know when this sort of thing went out of fashion?
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My wifes Grandfather was Arnedis Washington Akers. He went by A.W., would't you?
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There certainly are some uncommon names, so here's a couple I've come across in my tree.
Luke Maggs and his wife Jemima Pead.And another Constance Comfort Andrews. And one of my children's middle names is Nivek, because I wanted something that was a little different.
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This morning on the 1841 Cheshire I found a Gulmi Yarwood don't know if he is one of mine or not. ??? Hope so, what a super name ;D
Su
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Heres a few more Puritanical names ...from a little book called Silly Sussex.
Fly Fornication Richardson from Waldron -
Performe thy Vowes Seers from Maresfield
More Fruits Fowler a young lady from East Hoathley, there was also a Master More Fruits Fowler
Stand Fast on High Stringer - Crowhurst
Kill Sin Pimple - Warbleton
Small Hope Biggs - Rye and...
The Northiam rector John Frewen baptised his sons Accepted and Thankful, Accepted Frewen became Archbishop of York in 1660!
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I thought mine were really strange until now....
I have:
Thompson (male)
Featherston (male)
Jabez (male)
Enos (male)
Currell (male)
Berenard (not Bernard!) (male)
Allis (female)
Melva (no idea what sex!)
the latest one is Manasseh (male) - I'm not even sure how to say that!
They are all 1st names!
Oh an not forgetting Winn Wynn!! (female)
I'm sure there are more but I can't think now!
Love
Legs
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Oh an not forgetting Winn Wynn!! (female)
I love it! Its a 'winn wynn' situation!
Paul
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I found a BARNET WOODGATES in the 1871 & 1881 censuses for Tiverton and if the census record is to be believed, he fathered his last child at the age of 81!
Still trying to link him to my Woodgates ancestors but without success :(. I'd just love to have this character in my tree ;D
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Well,posted a Uniacke forename,12/4/05,found one other since.Over to Nova Scotia way,1800,s,not much help but was a nice feeling.
The name seems to have been adopted at sometime as a surname,so maybe they are rellies!!
Goggy. ;)
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I worked with a Richard Head who shortened his name to "Dickie Head". If I had been him, I wouldn't have shortened my name - it drew attention to the connotations. Unfortunately, he lived up to his name.
D.
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I have an ancestor Lydia Snowhouse of Britwell Salome, while I think it's a lovely name I have yet to come across any more Snowhouses,does anybody have a clue?
Best
John B
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My husband's side of the tree has a Royal Archer (m) from Kent, and a Salome Snelling from Sussex. A good friend once dated a Matt Black.
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I can't believe I forgot Thomas Thompson, William Williams and Wright and Admiral (yes that is his 1st name) Mellor! I also had a lodger with one of my families called Sykes Buckley....hmmmm!
I think my lot are officially mad - I mean William Williams thats just silly!
And if anyone can find dear old William I'd love you forever - he and his daughter, Margaret, exist only on her marriage certificate, otherwise I'm sure I'm imagining them!! ::)
Legs
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HiALL,gotta get these two down afore I forget!! Tail,+Froney both Binsteads,honest!Froney,yeah,can see that okay,but Tail????? ::)
Cheers,Goggy.
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Found on the Wheathampstead 1851 census:
Hallahbeenah Gray!!
forest
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Is this thread about uncommon names or outrageous names!
One name I'm researching is definitely extremely uncommon (rare would be a reasonable adjective) but it is certainly not outrageous.
The surname is LOCHTIE.
I wonder how many other uncommon - in the sense of rare - surnames people are researching.
JAP
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Jap,might just be the diminutive of Lochiel,dont know about the T,but was at school,(many moons ago) with a feller we called 'Locky'.Liverpool Scots.
Cheers,Goggy.
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We have a Younger Young - and yes he appears to be the youngest of the family. he married my great Aunt Jane Wanklyn. You can imagine the expressions on peoples faces when I say I am looking for Wanklyns in Herefordshire ;D
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Following on from the 'commonest name thread', what are the most unusual names that people have encountered?
I have twins called...
Caswallon and Gwythfyr Price
;D
Reuben,Abraham,saiforella,zillah,feofilus,albaina,marleyboni,Do i win? lol
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Jap,might just be the diminutive of Lochiel,dont know about the T,but was at school,(many moons ago) with a feller we called 'Locky'.Liverpool Scots.
Cheers,Goggy.
Hi Goggy,
No - I've got the surname LOCHTIE back to the beginning of the 1600s, no connexions with other similar looking names, and firmly based on Aberdour, Fife. When I first heard it, I thought it was just an ordinary Scots surname - but not so. I have every LOCHTIE I have been able to find recorded in my database. In the second half of the 1700s one family adopted the spelling LOUGHTY; that still exists but is extraordinarily rare. A story came down in one line (still living in the area) that the originator of the name was a foreign mariner in the late 1500s who married an Aberdour girl and settled there - and the name is what the locals made of his name or the place he came from. And that there is a Finnish name and place spelled Lahti which, I am told, is pronounced in a way which might fit the bill. Who knows ... And I guess I'll never find out ; )
JAP
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In my family tree:
Stripling Naylor (Male)
Aminadab Blackburn (Male).
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I have been searching the 1851 and 1861 Montgomeryshire census for my JONES ancestors. A very common Welsh name I hear you all say, but just look at some of the names I have found:-
Abiah Jones
Abra Jones
Alamena Jones
Alverine Joens
Erazmus Jones
Esau Jones
Given Jones
Orinda Jones
Tedekiah Jones
Easter Sarah Jones
Richard Omega Jones
Lama Dana Jones
Bowen Marpole Jones
Most of them are children - What on earth were the parents thinking of!!!! ;D
Jan :D
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Most of them are children - What on earth were the parents thinking of!!!! ;D
Probably just lending a hand to future generations of genealogists, Jan! :)
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Have recently met Zilpah. Had never heard this name so was surprised to find many on the 1880 census.
Does anyone know its origin?
Re. the name Melva: I attended school with a female Melva in the 1950's.
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Hi Elizabeth,
Zilpah
Meaning:
Frailty. In the Old Testament this is the name of the slave-girl who was given to Jacob by Leah.
Origin: Hebrew
I'm not sure if it's right though :-\
I found it here
http://www.babynames.com.au/Search/search-alphabetical-results.asp?Name=Zilpah
Regards,Mick ;)
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Not sure yet if they are my line but I have a
Godbewithus Thomas
Wealthy Thomas
Love Thomas
also some one asked me to look up his father called Friend Peters.
Jakky
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I'm doing my Sourbutts ancestors.
Best spelling yet has been Sourbeers....just hope he never wanted to become a publican!!
Carol
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I've just come across the Badminton family:
Enoch, Noah, Caleb, Miriam, Obed, Zilpah, Mahalath, Naomi, and another Enoch (the first one died)!
Noah - strange to relate - calls himself George most of the time. 8)
MR
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Just had to put this one on.
Epaphroditus Bullock Tailor m. Sarah Nield 11/7/1768
Cheshire Parish Records.
Su
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Hi all
I had a few uncommon names Moses an Aron (Aaron) Wilson, and this intriguing one where I cannot find the origin :'( and various sources cannot help me so here is a rootschat conundrum, who what or where for this first name:- :o
Neuraniah or Newreaniah (Yorkshire census 1871, 1881 or even Newry Anna when she died in Oz. Does not seem to be a bibilical name so have no idea. Rest of siblings were called Richard and Dinah or Samuel so pretty boring. ::)
Any help or pointers appreciated!
John Rowley
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I found one more called Ausetter which is in fact Arthur!
Cheers
John Rowley
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Neuraniah or Newreaniah (Yorkshire census 1871, 1881 or even Newry Anna when she died in Oz. Does not seem to be a bibilical name so have no idea.
In my Yorkshire Wilkinson family I have a Newry James and a Newry George separated by a few generations. No idea where the name comes from.
This morning when trying to track going through some census entries I found two brothers called Ina and Eta Metcalfe. Not a mistake - I found the birth registrations. A bit girlie?
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Hi Saar3
Are you a member of the Metcalfe society? All metcalfes go back to the 7 from nappa Hall in Yorkshire. Well worth joining as you get a reply stating who you are connected to!
John Rowley
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Re Neuriana:
Could it be from the same source as Aneurin, the name of an earlier Prime Minister ?
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Hi Elizabeth
If only! A lot of people would have loved Aneurin Bevan to have become Prime Minister but, alas, we had to make do with him being the founding father of our National Health Service, as Minister of Health in the 1945 Labour Government. :)
cheers
Paul
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This isn't my family ......
but there's a wealthy family in America with two daughters
Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg
I can't believe they never changed their name............!
Annie :P :P :P :P
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I have just been given a box of WW1 and WW2 letters from relatives who died in these wars and in amongst them is a memorial card for Annie Clara Squelch died Feb 28th 1929 age 63. My family would love her to be related! I also found reference in one of the WW1 letters to an Albert Squelch. Now the task is to find out who they were.
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I have just been given a box of WW1 and WW2 letters from relatives who died in these wars and in amongst them is a memorial card for Annie Clara Squelch died Feb 28th 1929 age 63. My family would love her to be related! I also found reference in one of the WW1 letters to an Albert Squelch. Now the task is to find out who they were.
Flipster, PLEASE post this as a RootsChat challenge! I can think of lots of people who would gladly put on their wellies and squelch through censuses, IGI, etc! ;D
Rambler
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MR - That thought crossed my mind also so I've just had a nosey on Ancestry and there are lots and lots of SQUELCH's waiting to be found!
Happy Hunting
Love
Legs
xxxxx
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Valentine Skipworth ....quite romantic i think, and he was born in february!! :) Sandra
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I have a Hustley Duggins who was my ggg grandmother. She is also shown variously as Hursley, Ursla, Ursula and even I understand Priscilla.
Elsewhere there is Hezekiah Dishley and Hepzibah Downes. She has only a tenuous link with the family and was, I think, sister to my g-grandfather's step-father. That is unless Elisha Downes proves to be the natural father of John Faulkner - that's a theory I have which may, or may not, ever be proved.
Ellen
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Nehemiah Charles McIntosh born in 1832 in Aberdeen, the first few times I looked at it I thought it was Jeremiah, but no.
Sharon
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I have a Diamond Jewell Showers :)
Barbara
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My great grandfather was Thomas BIRTLES Sourbutts. No idea where the Birtles comes from, as there were none in the family before him. Do know that there is a Birtles Hall in Cheshire, however.
Carol
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I've got several ladies named Mauldin/Malden but the winner in my lot is Hannibal WIGGIN
Marion in Wiltshire
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Without a doubt, many of those Celtic Welsh names appear
to be uncommon, but in dear old Wales we may find some of the names in large supply.
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Hi All
And I thought it was a fairly recently developed expression!?
In my tree, I have two Easey Pease. ;D
KR Dave
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Have a look at this thread http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,14233.0.html
Plenty more odd names to be found!!!! ;D
Jan
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Thanks Jan
Having received a certificate today that I thought would break one of my 'brick walls' down, and find that it hasn't, I'm ready for a good laugh. :'(
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Oh poor you Dave :( That has happened to so many of us.
If you feel like a giggle have a look at the Even Lighter Side Board http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,286.0.html
There's plenty of jokes in there that will bring a smile to your face ;D ;D
Good luck with your family research.
Jan
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How about Elver Fishlock or his son Junia
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In tracing the Ockly line, I found Goddete Rizbreger married George Ockly in Worplesdon in 1570.
My mind boggles what someone with that name is doing in rural Surrey
Bob
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I have recently discovered an ancestor with the charming christian name 'Pleasant'.
and two called Kerrenhappuch (after one of Job's daughters).
My favourite is still Nehemiah Epaphrodites Moon - not bad for an agricultural labourer from Somerset!
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Hi Friends,
Amazing, but true, I have an ancestor named Oliver Twist Parrett ,10th child of Charles & Mary.
We have speculated on the reasons for such an odd quirky choice and rememberd the boy who asked for more and the consequences that befell.
Was Mary trying to say something to Charles about asking for more ----?
If that was the case, it didn't work, number 11 followed!
The census man was v. confused by the name and recorded "Olive, daughter' in 1881, and gave the child quite the wrong age too.
Does anyone know, without running to your bookshelf, when Oliver Twist was published? Is is possible Mary was influenced by the leading character in a current best-seller--sooo MODERN. Sue
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On that note, I wonder how soon the forename Wendy became used after the first production of Peter Pan.
Dimps
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Hi Dimps,
Yes, There were about 3 or 4 Wendys in my year group at school during the 50's, here in Aust. but not many babies named that now. I wonder what influenced J M Barrie to choose it for lead girl. Maybe one of our Wendys on rootschat would have the answer. Sounds like trivia quizz time!
Funny how Scarlett and Rhett didn't take off to quite the same extent. Oliver Twist didn't either -Saints be praised!! Sue
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Supposedly a little girl called J M Barrie "Fwendie" as a pet name, and he changed this slightly to invent the name Wendy for his novel - this explanation from my book of baby names! Horribly twee, but there you are...
Rambler
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Does anyone know, without running to your bookshelf, when Oliver Twist was published? Is is possible Mary was influenced by the leading character in a current best-seller--sooo MODERN. Sue
Hi Sparrett
Seems as though Oliver Twist was first published in serial form between 1837 - 1839, but it had enduring popularity in the decades after it was written. Quite a name for a son, though!
Amazingly, there's an Oliver Twist Smith in the 1901 census, born 1892. :)
Paul
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On a similar note:
When I was scouring 1837online for my Florence Coleman née Moore, I was surprised that there was at least one Florence Coleman or Moore, in almost every quarter.
Then the penny dropped: she was born around 1882. Florence NIGHTINGALE was still 'news' then.
I am sure she must be responsible for the flurry of Florences in the second half of the 19th. century.
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Hi All,
Rambler, that is an interesting little snippet about Wendy. I always thought that it had a Gaelic feel to it and imagined it was Welsh or such in origin. Where was J M born I wonder. I didn't catch that recent film about the book, Something Neverland? or I might be more informed.
I like your baby book 's theory!. Sue
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Hi Bob,
Sorry, I just can't help this because I LOVED your flurry of Florences.
I have noticed over the 1800's a rash of Roses in the 80's and an avalanche of Adas in the 60's. AThere has been a steady series of Sarahs (with an occasional serge), plus a periodical eddy of Edwins.
Anything else to add? Sue
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These aren't related to me but I just had to put them on
In the 1861 census
Oveerser (Overseer) Wilker (f) b 1853 Swidale Staffordshire and her brother
Reed Wilker b 1806 Tipton
Willow x
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Hi
I have
Wingfield Augutus Hill
Inglis Robert Irwin Levers Littlewood
Sharon
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I have Tamar Littler (female) ... not unusual but very nice, I think. Unfortunately her father is not listed on her marriage certificate so I doubt I'll ever find out where'Tamar' sprang from (is it the name of a river??)
Julie
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The Tamar is the river which separates Cornwall from England! I did know a boy called Tamar a few years ago.
Ellen
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Thanks Ellen (very nice name - it has been passed down through several generations of my family - cthe urrent one is my mother). My Tamar was born in Lancashire circa 1834 - guess I'll never know why her mother (plain Sarah!) chose the name.
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The best one I have is Elizabeth Hannah Driffield William BENNETT born in 1827
Sarah ;D
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How about this one? Benjamin John Havelock Skobeloffe Higgins,and yes he did exist he is my husbands granddad. For some strange reason his parents gave all the children middle names of Russian generals and merchant sea vessels. I will try and find out more from my sister-in-law as I think she can remember the other strange ones too ;D
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I am wondering what
Goddete Rizbreger
is doing in Worplesdon Surrey in 1570
Bob
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Can anyone suggest what this may be?? Taken from a marriage certificate - this person was a witness. Male? Female? Other possible spellings? Meaning?
Malhudelah Hart
Thanks, Julie
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How about this one
A Belgian ancestor by the name of
Marie Francoise Sophie Waeghebaert
I just wish her name wasn't quiet so rare as I cannot find her in any records to date. I guess I will just have to learn, Flemish, German and French so that I can really exhaust all the available records!
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We have a Tamar too............and an Israel and Barjeu/Barjew
Sue
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Can anyone suggest what this may be?? Taken from a marriage certificate - this person was a witness. Male? Female? Other possible spellings? Meaning?
Malhudelah Hart
Thanks, Julie
The closest I can think of is the biblical Methuselah.
In the IGI, a search for Methuselah (no surname entered) with British Isles selected as the region brings up about 1000 entries for Methuselah or variant spellings- though many are LDS submissions. Most of the entries are male though there are a few early females e.g. Mathasala PARK christened in 1589 in Sussex, Methusulah SMYTH in 1592 in Cornwall.
The most recent extracted entry is the marriage of a (male) Methuselah JONES in Staffordshire in 1871. I didn't find a Methuselah HART in the IGI.
However, there is a Methuselah HART in the England censuses - could this be your chap?
1861
In Ashton in Makerfield with his widowed mother and siblings, an unmarried 28yo Journeyman Hingemaker, but transcribed as Methutelah HART (it's written as Methuselah - though the enumerator does have a strange 's')
1871
In Upholland Lancashire - Head of household, married, age 38, a labourer, born Ashton Lancashire
1881
In North Meols, Lancashire - Head of household, married, age 48, a Mason's Labourer, born Ashton.
1891
Still in North Meols but transcribed as Methuidah HART (it's written as Methusilah)
1901
In Southport but transcribed as Methnselah HART (it's written as Methuselah)
JAP
PS: And some entries on FreeBMD including the death of what is probably the census chap in Ormskirk, age 73, in 1907.
Note: entries in blue were added after I first posted.
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Thanks JAP
I had taken a guess at Malthuselah (man who was sent) - I was hoping it would have been a woman then they might have given me more clues to the people on the marriage certificate (he was a witness) but mever mind. I had found the 1871 census entry but not the others, so thanks for that. Now I'll try to find him on the 1851 census and maybe he'll be living somewhere near either my George Billingham or Tamar Littler (fingers crossed!!)
Thanks again, Julie
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Just found an Athalinda Lambert in my tree b 1880 unfortunately she died before 1891
Willow x
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I've got a
Bagot Exuperius Pickering, died in 1844.
He probably had to sign his name once too often.
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Hi there,
My husband's GGG Grandmother is called Penuel Martin, which is quite uncommon, but very biblical. This seems to have resulted in a grandaughter being given the middle name Phanuelina!
And today I found a witness on a marriage certificate called Noble McPherson!
Clare
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I have just discovered an Attree in my tree...............who was called Arthur.
Why wasn't he baptised Arthur!!? ???
Sue
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I have a Theodocia - sometimes wrongly transcribed Theodora
Bob
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Hi All!
I'm still waiting for someone to jump out and collet or explain my 'Uniacke'!
This is both a surname and forename,there is a Mount Uniacke in Co Cork,and the name is found far afield,as the saying goes.
Any offers?Goggy. ;D
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I thought Colonel Jubilee Watkins was an unusual name until I read some of the above.
My 10 year old explained to me that Colonel Jubilee Watkins was born in the year of Queen Victoria's jubilee - but he can't account for the brother Major Walter Watkins.
The other Watkins siblings are Lionel, Leah, Pauline, Maud, Claude and Cecil.
Does anyone else think that Pauline is a bit odd for the 1880s?
Wotty
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Yes it does seem more of a modern name Wotty but there was 485 of them in 1861. Trevor always seemed more modern to me but there was 78 of them in 1861 too.
Maybe we should start researching when names came into use
Willow x
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There are two Darryls in the 1901 census and two Kylies in the 1891 census so even these really modern names are not even censuswhacks!
Allan
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Hi everyone,
I've just discovered two female ancestors called Mitchell Brister and Gilling Stabbins. Mitchell married to become Mitchell Dean and Gilling became Gilling Lloyd. Could have been far worse I suppose. I'm now trying to find the origins of both names. Mitchell is probably either from the surname or a feminine version of Michael - there are some others around in the censuses. Gilling's grandmother was possibly a Gillian but I think that may be a mistranscription.
Debbie :)
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There's a Gillian Williams born 1795 in the 1861 census for Swansea however the earliest Gillian I can find in the England censuses was Gillian Anger born 1805. So not common before 1800 but (just) in use.
Allan
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Hi Allan,
I've just looked on the IGI and there are hundreds of Gillians going back to 1500s! There's also quite a few female Gillings. Gillian is supposed to be a variation of Juliana etc. I have both the baptism and marriage of Gilling but only a marriage for Gillian. Now wondering if Gilling was pronounced Jilling or as in fish gill? ???
Shame I'll never know :(
Debbie
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From the French side - Rock/Rhoc/Roc Praud, father and son by the same name.
Just found a sibling to one of my ancestors (in Nottingham) was called Winter Knight.
There was also a lady by the name of Adwadata Morrell on the Cornish side - in the baptisms of her children she went by Addy or Adye. Tried to order the films for Truro to check this, but the LDS only have the transcribed version it seems! Her granddaughter was Adadedata Casier.
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Hi Jorose,
Had to chuckle at Winter KNIGHT.
Checked the IGI and there's a lady of this name marrying in 1708 in London; is this the same one. No other seasonal KNIGHTs.
Though there is a Pleasant KNIGHT.
JAP
PS: and Happy KNIGHT.
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I have to admit that this person is not in my tree but worth adding all the same (from a mailing list I saw today)
R Diddams ;D
Dave
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My favourite is my great x 6 grandfather, Phoenix Marquand, who was born in Guernsey in 1682.
As far as I know he was not cremated !!
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I have a Friend Snowden/Snowdon from early 1800s Yorkshire (nr Bradford)
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At last I can add to this thread :D
Researching at Notts Archives on Friday, I came across a Doctor Padgett baptised in 1726, Elston Notts. In brackets after the name it said "seventh son"
Bearing in mind that every generation of my Padgett family seems to have a boring stock set of names that are constantly recycled, I had to call over my friend to confirm what I was seeing!
But a quick google on doctor + seventh son tells me that this was down to the belief that a seventh son had special powers - particularly healing powers. The link is here for anyone interested, scroll about half way down.
http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/jan/26.htm
Now I'm itching to get back and find out what happened to my "Doc" Padgett!
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Hi Heather
There was an interesting discussion here on Rootschat about this very phenomenon of seventh sons becoming (or at least being called) Doctors a couple of months ago.
Seems like you've got yourself one. :)
cheers
Paul
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Hi Heather,
as Paul says,
Topic: Doctor Septimus Forrest
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,68007.0.html
Bob
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Thanks Paul and Bob
My first thought was how did I miss that one .....but looking at the date I was packing for my hols at the time! Might have known I should have looked at Rootschat the fount of all knowledge first ;D
I was aware of the supposed psychic abilities of the 7th child as my nana always claimed being the 7th child of a 7th child gave her eyes in the back of her head. Sadly I debunked that one by discovering her mother was actually an 8th child :)
Heather
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My Mother-in-Law was a Havenhand, who tried to get away from it by marrying an Austwick.
MDW
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The name is not uncommon in itself, but I guess the combination is noteworthy - I have James Bond in the family! He told me a story that he was in a store and the young clerk saw his name and promptly exclaimed "Why would your mother name you THAT?". Given that he is now in his 80s, he assurred her that he was the "original" James Bond.
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Found when looking through Slaters Directory for Manchester and Salford, 1850.
Pharaoh Roscoe, coachmaker....
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This isn't my family ......
but there's a wealthy family in America with two daughters
Ima Hogg and Ura Hogg
I can't believe they never changed their name............!
Annie :P :P :P :P
ROTFLMAO
Gosh Annie,
These are the most hilarious names I've seen on this thread yet.
My first thought was -
Do they have any siblings called Heza Hogg and Sheza Hogg?? LOL
BD
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Not in my family but found in Parish records whilst doing some research.
1772 Huntingtour Hearn (a gypsy boy)
1852 Lemartini Smith.
In my family I had
William Edward Farrington Liscoe( ok so why unusual). Well he was named after the head of the house next door- William Edward Farrington.
I hope they were all just really good friends!!!!!
Tazzie
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Have just found in one family of my Harris side of the family
Lily
Rose
Camelia
Daisie
Iris
Violet
Narcissus
Redvers (male)
Willow x
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Twins back in the 1600's or 1700's on my husband's side of the family:
Silence and Submit Meigs
Patty
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The most unusual name I have come across is on my husband's tree - Uppington Bracee Barfoot born in London in 1804. The name has come down through the generations with a number of his descendants named after him.
LeighP
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I saw in an earlier message about Florence Nightingale. It was her older sister's name which always interested me - Parthenope - the ancient name for Naples, where she was born. As we always say in N.Z. - imagine having to write that around the inside of the gum-boots (wellington boots) - which is done so that the children don't get them muddled when at school !
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Willow: sounds like Hyacinth Bucket's siblings :)
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Lol Griz - I'll have to check to see if there was a Hyacinth
Willow x
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I saw an Abdemious the other day - I meant to check the imageto make sure it wasn't abstemious!!
Bob
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Coudn't see if this one has been mentioned before.
I have two ancestors called 'GAD'
Not sure where that came from
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My 6x great grandfather twice was called Cockerell Redshaw named after his mother Ann Cockerell and Joseph Redshaw. He died in about 1810 aged 90! No mean feat. Was a yeoman farmer by trade.
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I was actually looking for the in-laws of one of my relatives (honestly, I do have a life) and found a Sissevanna Bassett - mother and daughter.
When I entered it into a Google search I got Google-whacked - no hits!
I have no idea where this name came from - someone's over active imagination?
She was from East Sussex. Silly Sussex, my mother would have said, being from there herself.
Diana.
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Forgot this one - one of my kids' ancestors was Sophronia Stickney Peabody (full birth name).
Diana.
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Another one I remembered waw Newreaniah or Neuraniah or Newry Anna (when she died) Pratt. Not a biblical name and cannot find any reference in any book of names in the world yet that can tell me if this exists so possibly made up! Any suggestions anyone? ???
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For one Stanley Zelley Wyatt - his middle name would be an uncommon personal name. 8)
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I was actually looking for the in-laws of one of my relatives (honestly, I do have a life) and found a Sissevanna Bassett - mother and daughter.
Diana.
Breaking up is hard to do, but splitting the name into parts gives us Sisse Vanna or Sister Vanna or Vannia
(sounds Eastern Europen or could be Romani)
e.g. Vanna White
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On the 1901 census, the mother is Vanna and the daughter Sissie - you'd never guess that they had the same name, would you?
Rambler
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Came across this one . . . . (West Stirlingshire pre-1855 MI Book, surveyed July 1969)
Hellen Kekkijoo
Kekkijoo . . . . . ???
I was so intrigued that I went and had a look at the stone to see for myself. It actually says Hellen Kerkwood.
So much for mistranscriptions!!
I know we Scots have some strange names but . . . . .
Anne
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Anne,
That puts the cat among the pigeons for those who think that mistranscriptions come mainly from non-UK persons transcribing censuses for Ancestry!
How could those experienced Mitchell transcribers have made such an error ;D
JAP
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I know Jap!!!
This isn't the only one I've found!
None quite so outrageously wrong but a few gems none the less.
If I'm doing any searches, I usually quote the book and then tentatively add what I believe the stones actually say. (I usually take photos anyway so people can make their own minds up)
Anne
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Came across this one . . . . (West Stirlingshire pre-1855 MI Book, surveyed July 1969)
Hellen Kekkijoo
Kekkijoo . . . . . ???
I was so intrigued that I went and had a look at the stone to see for myself. It actually says Hellen Kerkwood.
So much for mistranscriptions!!
I know we Scots have some strange names but . . . . .
Anne
Maybe it was the case of some bonnie lad doubling up on
single malt?? ;D
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I was actually looking for the in-laws of one of my relatives (honestly, I do have a life) and found a Sissevanna Bassett - mother and daughter.
Diana.
Breaking up is hard to do, but splitting the name into parts gives us Sisse Vanna or Sister Vanna or Vannia
(sounds Eastern Europen or could be Romani)
e.g. Vanna White
Might be Romani! Sissevanna had brothers Orlando, Bethel and Augustus - sisters were the more prosaic Emma and Eva.
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On one side - Anstice is a family name, so there are quite a few of those. Cephas French was a lad who married into the family.
On the other - Nurcott or Norcott, Wilson and Thirza. Norcott was the nephew of Nurcott, whose mother had married an Addicott - so "Norcott Addicott"
Watermusic
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Its a first name - Feighney-and it's been realy hard to track her through certs and census, as it has always been mispelt-she has been Pheoney, Phoney and Pheobe!
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I have a Quinnevere Sydney. And it's a female! Sydney isn't the last name. I've never heard of the name before and can't find any informaion on it's origins.
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I have a Quinnevere Sydney. And it's a female! Sydney isn't the last name. I've never heard of the name before and can't find any informaion on it's origins.
I can only guess that it's an unusual form of Guinevere, with a particularly imaginative spelling!
Rambler
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I have an ancestor with a middle name
Beaumaris
The family had no connection with Anglesey and no ancestirs called Beaumaris
Bob
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How about Goldesbrough Clark? She's female, since you ask!
(Rather like a Marmaduke Smith if you ask me!)
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On researching a Rand in my husband's tree I came across a Rackabina Rand born in 1842 in West Ham - could be related!! She was down as Pickbran in the transcript of the 1851 census!
Ellen
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The sir name NEKREWS.
some in South Wales and Scotland, all related.
But the origins?
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I have a Lawford (first name) Stevens (middle name) Sparrow
b.1879
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My grandmother's middle name was Menai, because she was born near the Menai Bridge in Anglesey.
I also have a Mahalah Jessie Bull, Merry Dickin, Maile (pro. MyLee), Offley Hamer, Cynyr Hamer, Ezekiel Hamer, Llywela Hamer (strange lot these Hamers), Shackfield Williams and a Hester Winter.
I guess my sister's name is fairly unusual too, Lynnette.
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My two Great Aunts were called Jessie Verena Morgan and Mary Adelaide Morgan.
I have since discovered that the 'Adelaide' is a family name on my Great Grandmother's side of the family, but am still to find the 'Verena' connection!
I also have a Tryphena Evans and a Tryphena Smart, not too sure where the name came from!
I do have more unusual names, but can't think of them off the top of my head!
Chui
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I have a woman with the forename Clarence. I never thought of it as a woman's name before, but, once you get used to it, it sounds all right.
Does anyone know if there are other instances of this?
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i was helping a friend in NSW australia with his cornish family and was looking for Catherinr James Beckerleg nothing unusual in that but when I found her birth her father was Barzillai beckerleg a name I have never come accross before
angie
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I have a Docitheus TWIGG, born in Bilston, Staffs....I have reason to believe he's connected to a whole line of Docitheus' I've found in the villages of Tong/Albrighton/Shifnal in nearby Shrops - but I'm missing a generation to confirm it!
When I found Docitheus about 3 years ago, I gave my husband a reason to be pleased we had our son already, I told him I might have named Dafydd (our son) after Docitheus heehee!
I also have a Suckling HOWES, a man, born in Hickling, Norfolk. A succession of Sucklings follows on after him....a very odd name, I think, anyone else seen it?
One of my main research areas is the KEEPAX family. Seems to appear suddenly in Worcester in the mid-1700s, with no apparent connection to the Yorkshire town of Kippax. Everyone named KEEPAX is related to my lot, there's not many of us out there.
Jenna :)
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One of my ancestor's forename is Excell; another was Freelove.....don't ask
Rog ;D
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I thought my great x4 grandfather Barjew/Barjeau was uncommon enough but
today we are celebrating the birth of our 13th grandchild..........it is a
wonderful grandson but his name is PUCK.............I'm sure we'll get used to it
in time but,we won't be shouting his name across the park if he runs
away!!!!!!!
Sue
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Bridget Bastard (Lady) death 21 Jul 1773
SYLVIA
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A couple from me
My sister in laws tree has a Nebudchodnezor Worrall and his uncle Nebudchodnezor Price
My mum's side has a Septimus and an Adolphus
My dads has a Dodsworth Cranston Pinkney (christian names being relatives surnames)
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some parents should have been locked up
sylvia
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From north Wiltshire and south Gloucestershire between 1790 and 1825, I have Junia Fishlock and his son Worthy and a nephew, Elver. Also Lot Milliner who's mother, Mary, was Elver's sister and who's wife NEVER looked back.
Also from Sherston, Wiltshire, 3 generations of Lancelot Powell from 1640 to 1707
Cheers Dave
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From sunny Rutland, James Spendeloo who married Jane Popple, to her great relief, in 1815.
Cheers Dave
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Fairly uncommon, but certainly long is
Louisa Benedicta Selina Calideness Postlethwaite.
I guess she didn't give many autographs!
Best wishes
Pete
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A great aunt of mine married Andrew Gold and they christened one of their sons after her brothers so the poor soul was lumbered with Nathaniel Daniel Isaac Oman Gold. They weren't even very religious - Church of Scotland not Jewish either!
In a wee place like Carluke his life must have been a misery. ???
Russell
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Not one of my names but whilst transcribing the 1861 census I came across an Armageddon Margeram :-\
Fiona
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Fanny Wash. :-\
Luckily for her it's a mistake in transcription and is supposed to be Fanny Nash. ;D
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Floss
She didn't marry someone called LAVAGE by any chance?
::)
Russell
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Hi Russell
I seem to remember that this Armageddon was a man.
Fiona
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My Great Grandfather was Louis Henry PALMER - no probs with that, but some of his brothers' names were something else:
Lapauldro
Don Thurshalht
Ryfealyer DeSilva
Younather DeSilva
I have pictures of most of them here:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/Gallery/Em&Su/index.html
Their grandmother was Portuguese, and all her children had standard English names - Emmanuel, Stephen; William; Mary; Henry; Honor and Louis - it was Emmanuel & his wife Suzannah who thought they'd be a bit different :o
(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b27/anniemcc/Christmas/pinecandle.gif)
Cheers, Ann.
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My grandfather, born in 1918,has three first names, the third name was Hedauville.
Hedauville is a village in Northern France, presumably GGF was stationed there in WW1,I would love to know what happened there to include the name in GF's name.
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Reminds me of my late Aunt
She was called Lille, her brother was Verdun
Bob
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Hi,
just stared on a new family and already found a Quartan and (love this) Jane Snowball Lamplugh she was born in August?
Jakky
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I thought I'd contribute with a few.
Horn Appleyard. A neighbour of his parents was called James Horn - too much of coincidence, I think there was a connection with this neighbour.
I did think that two of my relatives called Aldred and Theophilius had unusual names but a quick search of the censuses proves otherwise.
I have yet to find another Horn, however.
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ARNO in the Dartmouth, Devon area, and
MABB in the Wyke Regis, Dorset area
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Simma,
Like you, I hoped that Theophilus might prove to be unusual - mine is John Theophilus GOUGH, a musician from Dublin, father of Eleanor who married in Victoria, Australia in 1859.
But sadly I found that Theophilus is quite a common forename!
Hamlet was another for which I had high hopes - but it too is quite common!
JAP
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The name is Magdalene ARNO of Devon
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I thought BODY HUNTER (married in Lincoln Tennessee in 1882) was an attractive name. I don't know how much better off she was when she married and became BODY NIPPERS.
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I thought BODY HUNTER (married in Lincoln Tennessee in 1882) was an attractive name. I don't know how much better off she was when she married and became BODY NIPPERS.
Laughing my socks off at that one!
Mine isn't funny, merely frustrating, PURA TRANCHO
I've developed a tic on my chin
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This is not an uncommon name but amusing and appropriate
I found an article in the Times Digital archive agains a woman on trial for obtaining goods by deception.
Her name was Annie Cheetham
Bob
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most uncommon? Valendar /Vallendar or Valentine
and Esaye still not sure if male or female?
Brenda or "Bubbles"
and the most recent editions as in Kanna 1976, Kaiya, Kobi,
and my 2 grand daughters Montana 9mths and Trinity 2mths
otherwise they're you usual Fred,Tom,George etc...
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Esaye/Esaie (Esaïe if your computer reads accents!) is the French version of Isaiah - surprisingly common at one time, although not any longer.
Rambler
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I have just come across one of my Great Great Grandmothers and her name was Fanny Creese ;D
Made us laugh !!
Sue B
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I discovered a Joan Mingy on my wife's side last week.
Still like my ancestor Nehemiah Epaphrodites Moon though.
I wonder if he ever learnt to write or spell it?
Andy
www.thekickboxer.co.uk
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I was helping a friend with their research and found a marriage record for a James Running and a Helen Walker.
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I found an Alphaeus Pullen yesterday.
Alphaeus appears to be a biblical name
Bob
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Indirectly I've got a Hephzibah and a Zipporah.Once when searching for a friend I miss-typed Fanny Dish with Fish and there are a LOT !
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Haven't contributed to this thread before as all of mine are Williams, Mary's, Elizabeths and so on :-\...imagine my delight when I found out today I've got a Zebedee ;D...OK he's not in my direct line, but at last someone a bit unusual! ;D
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Dear All
My Mum knew a girl in Wirksworth (Derbyshire) in the 20s named Caroline Augustine Arkwright Mossrose Spencer.
Linda
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I have recently found out that my GGG grandmother was called Elizabeth Moonlight. According to the legend in Angus, an elderly couple found a baby abandoned on their doorstep and decided to adopt him. Because they found him at night they baptized him with the surname Moonlight. Apparently, we are all descended from this one baby. Ah, romance at last!!!!!
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Hi my first names are all rather plain Elizabeth, Winifred, George etc but my surnames...
ANTWIS, & NANFAN. :-\
Any matches anyone?
Cheers
Josee
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I have one family (in 1770s & 1780s) who went slightly 'interesting' in their naming, and then back to normal. The children in birth order were:
Mary, Sarah, Martha, Rebecca, Gulidina, Kerenhappuch, Gulidina, Richard, Hannah
.... neither of the Gulidinas survived :'( Kerrenhappuch was a daughter of Job ::)
cheers
Rosemary ;D
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amongst my family of ancestors I have:
Pearssa Whall
Egerton Edward Judd
a female with the middle name of Christmas
a female with the middle name of Andrews.
My husband's line has the most unusual surname:
Farkins
which came from Ireland, but we have no ideas whereabouts.
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looking in 1901 census on ancestry, a relative is registerd as,
Tohel King,but in 1901 census from National Archives, he's John King.
Has anyone ever heard of the name, Tohel?
gjil
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hello gilj
I think your 'tohel' could be a mis-transcription. This is the actual image and the 'T' for tohel looks like a 'J' but somone has read it wrong! I once found a Fitz Sparrow mis-transcribed as Tity Sparrow! - Good old ancestry
acceber
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hello Acceber,
thanks for clarifying that for me. I was beginning to think who would name there child, Tohel!!
gjil
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I notice totally the opposite today, someone called Smith Smith!
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i have an ancester called welcome fields in the early 1800s
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I notice totally the opposite today, someone called Smith Smith!
I actually went to school with someone called Alan Allen. ???
The only unusual names in my tree belong to the sons of two coalmining brothers in Derbyshire.
Israel and Septimus
Gregg ;)
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It's not exactly an ancestor,but following on from Alan Allen-isn't Gary Neville's Dad called Neville Neville?
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When I was living in London I knew a boy called Richard Richards ! Can't think of any more double-ups.
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How about Arkless Pratt...
Arkless came in as a wife's maiden name but then became a forename....
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Hi,
I was doing a silly search of names and these people all existed
Hiccup Sneeze Burp Fart Choke Shout Whisper Laugh Cry Sigh Swear Talk Curse.
Head Neck Lips Eyes Nose Teeth Tongue Ears Cheek Face Nasal
Chest Bust Titt Bum Arse Bowel Belly Body Legs Hips Arms Finger Elbow Bone Brain Skeleton Waist Toe Hands
Nail Thumb Ankle and last but not least Penis. ::)
Jakky
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Hi,
from my Deacon line I have:
Hepzibah (F)
Barzillai (M) and Barzillia (F)
Hector Iram
Augustine
and an Horatio Nelson Walker plus a Viney (actually registered) Smith.
Paul
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I have some Catalinas
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When I was living in London I knew a boy called Richard Richards ! Can't think of any more double-ups.
Being Welsh I have the usual Owen Owens, Robert Roberts, Hugh Hughes, William Williams and Thomas Thomas - headches to find every last one of them.
Unusual names are :
Eupham (f) 1775
Hardic (f) 1760
Ciesel (f) 1745
Septimus (m) 1915
Moses (m) loads of them
Ranulph (m) 1963
Mairin (f) 1687
Falcus (m) 1916
Grizel (f) 1796
Alwena (f)
Eirianwen (f)
Mennai (f)
Rhodri (m)
Rhydian (m)
Enrick Hainse (m) 1963
Laverin (m) 1680
Alphaeus (m)
Obadiah (m) 1871
Now (m)
Euros (m)
Gwawr (f) 1991 - means dawn in Welsh
Lowri (f)
Elma (f) 1910 & 1960
Annice (f) 1964
All my Mother in laws sisters were named after flowers - Bluebell, Pansy, Violet, Rose & Blossom
My most common names are:
Scotland - Alexander, Hugh William Elizabeth and Mary
Wales - Owen, Thomas, William, Robert, Mary, Elizabeth Margaret
England - James, Robert, William
Carol
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I have recently come accross 2 names in my family, Hartless and Vilan Carpenter :p
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And Jakky
Even people named with the C word c***
Bob
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Bob,
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :-X
Jakky
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Shortly after the French revolution my ancestor chose to declare his own support by calling his daughter LIBERTY. For a while it became quite popular in the family. Then one male LIBERTY rather overdid it by calling his son FREEDOM LIBERTY.
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This surely classifies as uncommon, and certainly 'unfortunate' but there was a Hannah Bugger listed on the 1841 census for one of the Maidstone wards.
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For many years there was a family in Newton Abbot called FLOOD, who always named their eldest son NOAH and their house THE ARK.
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Not an ancestor but my Grand-daughter has an unusual name.
She was born prematurely whilst a thunderstorm raged.A huge crash of thunder announced her arrival .Her name is Elaura-Morgan...briefly translated ,it means Spirit of the Morning.
Known to all as LOLLY.I don't think her Gt Grandchildren will have to look too hard to find her in future census'
Ninkynoo
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I've just come across this surname in the 1891 census
SCETTRIUS Theodore A
It kind of sounds latin - like a name from Rome - or its a spelling error. :)
BD
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Just came across a Larkin Simmons Dearth and his daughter Asinath.
erin
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This isn't one of mine but I wanted to share it with you all -
Valentine Porter - I've just come across him in the 1901 census - unfortunately ladies, he was a Grocers Carter but what a lovely name.
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Hi,
I have just found Grisegunne Horneblow Has anyone any idea where Grisegunne comes from and what on earth does it mean she was married in 1700 in Feckenham Worcestershire
Trees
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http://www.feckenodeon.co.uk/page6.html
this gives info on Feckenem Worcestershire
SYLVIA
ASSORTED NAMES FROM WORCS
GULIELMUS HORNIBLOW
GEORGIUS HORNIBLOWE
WILLIAM THORNELOE HORNEBLOW [MOUTHFULL]
JACOBUS HORNIBLOW
BONITT HORNEBLOW FEMALE
JUST FOR INTEREST
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Thanks for the link. I love the old Worcester parishes where the ancestors roamed it seems a sin that the family migrated to the back to back courts of Birmingham from Ombersley Salwarpe. Holt. Kinver, Feckenam etc
Still no sign of Grisegunne Horneblow's baptism or parantage though :'(
Trees,
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Grisegun Horneblowe sounds like a pseudonym for Groucho Marks
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;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Poor thing I wonder what she looked like doubt she had the cigar some how
Trees
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Hi everyone
Thought I would join in ...
I have Defiance and Carnation as names , also a Cold Puddin' Jack. LOL
On one of my 'trawling through census days' I found a young girl calle 'Fanny Pack " .... ;D :o
deb :)
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I have a Aulay McAulay from Scotland.
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I have the following
Hrak Bernard b Liverpool with brother Israel and sister Hamiok (think this is actually Hanah but thats what it reads as on the census)
Ephraim Chorley b c 1580 Somerset
Borz Clarke b 1866 Hindley, Lancs (always make me think of Star Trek!)
Royale Sherbourne Dutton b 1893 Plymouth
Commyn Hillinge b c1570 Somerset
Horban Pearson b 1884 Leicestershire
Cockerill Pilling b 1859 Haslingden, Lancashire
Bernida Seward b 1894 Glamorgan
Case Stanley b 1887 Willenhall
Dedvill Tyler b 1833 Gloucestershire with his sister Bythia b 1839
Thats not counting the alternative spellings of some names I have found
Willow x
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Just had to post this, altho this thread is so long I doubt anyone will ever see it. This might be an example of what happens when they allow insane people to mate. ;D
One of my grt gpa's brothers married one of a grt grt gpa's daughters and they named their children (in order):
Lessie, Jessie, Arthur(???), Heffie, Dessie, Effie, Bessie, Essie, Tressie, Hessie. At this point they either ran out of inspiration, or whatever medications were available in the late 1800s started working, and they named their next 4 children: John, Eva, Florence, and John.
Don't even try to guess which ones were which sex...
Nick
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Nick ...How funny .... They should have gone down the alphabet a bit further...then they may have come up with "Messie Nessie" .... ;D
deb :)
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I hope Arthur didn't feel too left out ;)
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Hi
My names are
Mourning Flowers and Mourning Dove White from South Carolina USA in the 1700's.
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Wow, are they Red Indian names?
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Hi
I would assume so but as you can probably expect i can not find mourning flowers parents.
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They are great names.
What a shame you cannot find their parents names, ???
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I've come across a Fig Dopson 1908 to 1996. Any ideas on Fig,
Regards, Abiam
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From various branches of the family, I have the following that come immediately to mind.
Kerenhappuch
Hezekiah
Beriah
Nimrod
Manussah
Dorcas
Zilla
Emeline
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My OH's grandmother was Elsie Kinvig ..... I was looking for her family and I came across two female names - Netter Kinvig and Esse Kinvig.
Netter may be a nickname...same with Esse ???
mab
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Just ran across Charity KITCHEN in this list:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/londist8.htm
She married Michael SAGES.
I'll bet their cooking was very fragrant - and the ideal destination for anyone needing a handout!
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:)
This week came across a rellie called SILENCE .... poor girl ...what kind of name is that ?? :-\
deb
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I was doing some research in Suffolk and came upon three generations of women with a first name of Philadelphia. I did a general query in Ancestry and there are lots :o
mab
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Evening all,
Having a good giggle at some of the names here. ;D
I have found an Antipas Teagle (male).
escargot
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I also have a Karenhappuch & a Nabuchadeneza ;D
Yvonne
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How about the 1891 census
Hay Wire aged 5
Actually Harry Wise
Abiam
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Hello everyone,
in terms of first names, the oddest I've encountered is Colleberry (her first name was Franklin). As for surnames, I've got Muddle (rare) and Goldswain (incredibly rare). I've also got Funnell, but in comparison with Muddle and Goldswain it's positively common, at least in Sussex.
Martin
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Welcome to Roots chat hope you find a few moreGoldswains soon and wont be left in too much of a Muddle searching for your Funnells Which counties are they in and what time period?
Trees
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If you look in the surname interest list( click on the link at the bottom of the page you will see two other members are looking for FUNNELLs and one for Muddle and about 24 for Franklin try PM ing them. Don't forget to add your names onto the list too
Trees
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Reading all of this I couldn't help but think, spare a thought for Princess Tiami Andre.
If you are not familiar with that name, Princess Tiami is the Christian name! Daughter of Peter Andre and Jordon. Why do some parents forget that children have to grow up with names?
I don't really have any uncommon names in my tree.
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Re uncommon names must have sympathy for poor blighter who was recorded as Semporarilyabtentfromhome - Kirkpatrick Durham parish Kircudbrightshire - poor Sempo!!
J.A.
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Fairly uncommon, but certainly long is
Louisa Benedicta Selina Calideness Postlethwaite.
I guess she didn't give many autographs!
Best wishes
Pete
Just found this link while searching for info on the strangely-named spouse.
Do you have any more information on who she married Pete? We are researching her father (Rev. Richard Postlethwaite), but any connection would be useful.
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Reading all of this I couldn't help but think, spare a thought for Princess Tiami Andre.
If you are not familiar with that name, Princess Tiami is the Christian name! Daughter of Peter Andre and Jordon. Why do some parents forget that children have to grow up with names?
I was checking the page number of a reference on the GRO birth indexes for 1912 yesterday and just a few lines away from the chap I was looking for was someone with the forenames Princess Ann. (And no, the surname wasn't Windsor, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha etc.)
So having a little princess of a daughter isn't new!
Princess Tiami should be grateful she doesn't have a middle name Maria. Or perhaps she does and that's an indication what her mother had been drinking when she was conceived! ;D
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We used to know a doctor named Benjamin B Doctor ... don't know whether he ever tried to avoid his karma ...
Incidentally, someone posted about the name Gad, a while back: - and we also knew a doctor who had this first name. We were told it was biblical (?)
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Ok, I wasn't going to mention this and it's probably off-topic a tad ... but ... the descendants of my great-neices will have no trouble whatsoever in tracing them. I won't even mention their names because they're so unusual, and a google search (of which the elder is quite capable!) will throw them up straight away. However ...
When their mother was pregnant with the first child, my brother (her uncle Keith) died quite young ... so she decided to name the baby after him. Unfortunately, as mentioned, the baby was a girl ... but she stuck to her vow, and "feminised" the name rather alarmingly. Suffice it to say, it has four syllables, and starts with "Keith" ...
When the second one came along, ... I swear, she must've thrown the Scrabble tiles into the air, and used the ones that landed face-up! It's pronounced "Julisse", which is quite pretty ... but that's not how they spell it!
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My 4x g-aunt was called Christian Pagan! I'd love to have been at her Christening ;D
Also I have a 5x g-aunt called Ferguson :-\
No match to some of the belters posted here so far though
Lora.
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i have just found in my tree a cyrus & jabey clayton
not what you expect to find in shropshire
but the i like the unusal to my be a family thing my youngest daughter is
niamh ynez
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For a little oneupsmanship on Deb D's Dr. Benj. Doctor: I used to work with a married couple named Doctor who both had PhDs. Of course we always referred to them as "Doctor & Doctor Doctor".
Nick
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ROFL! ;D
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Mine would have to be the gentleman in the photo to the left.
His father was mad keen on family history, this being back in the early 1800s, so all the kids got names associated with family, or the fathers mates from Cambridge University.
1806 Edward William - two grandfathers
Couple of others in here that died young
1812 Paget Wotton - Fathers mate + ggfathers surname
1813 Beaumaurice Stracey - gfather William's second name + fathers mate
1815 Walpole Hammond - Fathers mate + ggfathers wifes maiden name
1817 Octavius Halford - Not sure on these ones
1819 Augusta Angelica Laura - ? + mother + grandmother
1821 Angelica - mother
Ian C
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Good grief :o......definitely different names :-\.......errrr I wonder if they had nicknames? Imagine if you were called Beaumaurice Stracey and your mum was calling you home for dinner ??? I wonder if he was called Beau maybe ???......which is actually a very nice name :D.......but I'm not too sure about Paget Wotton though ......hmm ::) ??? ???
mab
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I had a great aunt called Seretter, another male relative called Craven and my great-grandfather was Uriah Artus. Sounds like something out of Dickens :)
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Do you know where the name Seretter came from ??? It sounds like a surname.
mab
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Seretter's real name was Margaret, but on every census return she is shown as Seretter or Serretter. She married using the name Serretter, if I recall.
It might have been derived from one of these names that young children use when they can't pronounce the actual word. For instance, my daughter, when she was about 3 or 4 years old, wanted a doll's pram "with a helli-brella". We discovered that what she actually wanted was a pram with a hood, which, of course, folds like an umbrella.
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Well I had googled the name out of interest and it is a surname :)....that's why I asked :D
mab
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My faves are
Mahershalalhashbaz Hussey
and
Cotton Humphrey
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I have a Cesar and a Marinus in my tree
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I have someone with a first name of .....
Doctor
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Whilst searching for two Great Uncles in the Birth registers, I came across the following name:
Sir Charles Scott. Poole. 1st Quarter 1897 - Vol 5a Page 251
John
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I'm doing my husband's family, and his gg grandfather was Andronicus, married to Savinia!
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This isn't one of mine, but in perusing a census return today I came across a
Treandaphelia (female)
Never heard of it before - has anyone else? (FreeBMD throws up a handful of occurrences).
Anna :)
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Most unusual surname so far is : Twoo (Sarah)
Most unusual first name is : Verdun. Not so bad you might think? It was given to a girl!
FS
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Hi
I also have a Verdun, but this was a boy, brother of Lille!
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I have found middle names of Kernon, Durant, Hetherley. I'm sure they must come from someone's surname but not found them yet.
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I have found in my family tree an illegitimate child born 1906 (a girl) who was named Ino I have the birth certificate because I could not believe the name in the baptism record was correct, but it was! I will have to wait for the 1911 census to find out what happened to her. Inos mother was only 16 when she gave birth to her, and had two other children many years later. None of the family has ever heard of the child (or so they say) they were so good keeping secrets.
Kind regards Susan
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I've not read through all the pages of this thread but my strangest name is my great uncle Richard Charles Lathagne Clarkson.
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Mine is:
Pequin
Titshall
Orliss
Teagoe
Palding
Ben
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As well as Andronicus, I have a Napoleon. His father was part of the garrison on St Helena when Napoleon Bonaparte was there. (He also named one of his daughters Helena!)
Amanda
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Treandaphelia (female)
I wonder if this name might have some relationship to the Greek word for a rose, which transliterates as 'Treandaphilo' ?
Jennifer
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Just recently found, Hawthorn for a girls first name ::)
jane
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Whilst still trying to knock down the brick wall surrounding a Great-Uncle’s birth - I came across the following:
Squire Scott – 1899 1st Quarter Salford 8d, 2.
Onesiphorous Scott – 1899 2nd Quarter Aston 6d. 379
Prince Edward Scott – 1901 Northwich 8a, 258
Quceujo Scotton – 1900 – 3rd Quarter 4a, 78
John :)
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Treandaphelia (female)
I wonder if this name might have some relationship to the Greek word for a rose, which transliterates as 'Treandaphilo' ?
Jennifer
Oooh - I like that theory very much! Good thinking, Jennifer :)
Anna
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Quceujo Scotton – 1900 – 3rd Quarter 4a, 78
Was this one in West Ham district? Seems now to have been transcribed on FreeBMD as Queenie, which seems a bit more comprehensible!
Anna
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My great great grandmother was a Meada - not many of those about!!
I've also found:
Albin/Albion
Hephzibah
Japheth/Japeth/Jabez
Epentus
Bunyon
Shadrack.
My favourite is Mary Parrott who was known as Polly!!!!
Amanda
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Quceujo Scotton – 1900 – 3rd Quarter 4a, 78
Was this one in West Ham district? Seems now to have been transcribed on FreeBMD as Queenie, which seems a bit more comprehensible!
Anna
Yes – it was West Ham district – but I found it on “findmypast”. And to think I’ve spent all day trying to pronounce it! ;D
Glad you found it on FreeBMD as “Queenie” – much more comprehensible (and pronounceable!)
Thanks
John
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I have a King and a Queen Perkins.
King died at the christmas table face down in the plum pudding. Rather interesting finish.
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In my tree I apparently have the surname Mother.
Ann Mother 1810, Bradmore Staffs and Ann Mother 1816/17 Dorrington Shropshire.
Has anyone heard of the name Mother before please, I know there are quite a lot of Mathers.
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I have Calpurnia Kirton and Cornelius Blundell.
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I have just been looking at some Castle connections in the Midlands when I spotted Mahala Castle. She is not a connection of mine but out of curiosity because of the unusual name I looked at her census record of 1891. She is a lodger and also lodging with her is a 14 yr old boy (probably her brother) named Windsor Castle. Poor child.
Brie
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My dad's eldest sister was called Veve.
I have never seen another, but it might be Canadian, as my paternal grandma was born in Canada and grandad went there to work at least once. (It may not be the spelling they would use in Canada)
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Sometimes an unusual name can simply be an error in transcription. On one of the census indexes my 2x gt uncle Mortimer is listed as Martiner.
Chirp
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My 5x great grandfather - Jose de Badillo y Nicolas
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I wonder if anyone can beat this one - Kerczhappack! I found her whilst looking for my Bullus ancestors, she is married to a John Bayliss & on the 1851 census in Birmingham HO 107 2061 pg 18. I was trying to work out where she was born, but, can't decipher it.
Mo
PS What's the prize????!!!!
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Hi Mo what a name I think she is from Belbroughton Worc. Half way between Jnct 4 on the M5 and Kidderminster :)
trees
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I wonder if anyone can beat this one - Kerczhappack!
It's probably Kerenhappuck (she is to be found under that name in the 1841 census in Bromsgrove)
Although very strange to our ears it seems that Kerenhappuck was not an uncommon name, as a search of births on free BMD will reveal.
She was one of the 3 daughters of Job http://www.rootschat.com/links/05g1/
Jennifer
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IGI Family search has Sarah Bayliss christened 23 Mar 1834 daur of John and KEERENHAPPUCK Hartlebury C063261 1813 - 1842 and the son Thomas
Christened 15 jan 1831 to John and Celia I wonder if this was the name she usually used?
Trees
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I have recently come across
Barzilla Meek (various spellings)
Abiah Meek (female)
Obed Meek (male)
Asenath Hazard (female)
Willow x
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Thanks Trees & Jenb - it's really interesting about the name & where she was bornI expected it to be some far off country with a name like hers! I don't think she is my relative as I have a John Bulllus b18312 who married Rhoda sometime between 1851 & 186, but, have been unable to find their marriage in the Worcestershire/Birmingham area.
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Could this possibly be the marriage?
June Qtr 1857 Dudley district 6c 68
John BullAs and Rhoda Linten
there are however two men and two women so it needs checking
Trees
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Thanks again Trees - I love this site there's always some kind person who comes to your rescue when you are stuck! Mo x
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What an interesting thread. I've had fun reading such unusual names.
When looking through BMD records for Croxall (Surname) I found
Baltic Monday Croxall
I have also found on free BMD
Christmas Peachy Last
Christmas Garibaldi Roberts
and elsewhere
Dyhappy Beach
Angela
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The oddest one i've come across in my lot is Bathsheba - had to google it (never went to sunday school!)
In my blokes line there is a gent called Young Sheppard - he's giving me a little grief at the moment!!
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I have not 1 but two Planceana's in my tree.
The 1st died young & was aunt to the 2nd............................ who appeared not to like her name & used a variety of others including Mary & Blanche!
While I was researhing my Nanas "Childs" surname I came across a
Mary Christmas Childs
and a
Last Childs................ hehe he wasnt he had 2 younger siblings!
Gaille
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Come across a load of River Jordan's
Willow x
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I have a Thankful Harris. Dorliz
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Many moons ago, one of my ancestors was called Will Tidd.
It looks quite normal written down but try saying it!
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I've got a Saxon (Lennard )b 1915 in my tree, my Great Uncle in law.
Again everyone else has commonplace names
ukd
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I've had a few unusual names recently:
Jassamine
Trophimas
Dolphinus
Philida
Edwy
Postlethwaite
Eeb
Makes them easy to find ;D
mab
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I have an Archibaldina Neilson.
The favoured family name for first boys was Archibald. One family had five consecutive girls, then named the sixth, and last, Archibaldina.
I suppose they just HAD to get the name in somehow.
She never married, and in her death cert she is "Ina".
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Hi
Are you researching the Hart family from Ashton in Makerfield. The name that you found confusing is Methuselah Hart born 1833 Ashton. He was the son of my husband's 3x Great Grandfather.
Regards Joyce
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My uncommon name is McYull.Name does not show on any census yet I have 3 certificates with the name.
Ed
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I am linked into a line of Freaks, sometimes Freick, Friek, Frieck and Frick. All from County Durham in England and very hard to find on indexes.
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My uncommon name is McYull.Name does not show on any census yet I have 3 certificates with the name.
Ed
Hi Ed - Have you tried searching with alternative spellings such as McYuill? Good luck - Ellen
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My uncommon name is McYull.Name does not show on any census yet I have 3 certificates with the name.
Ed
Could it not be McCuel or McCue (if the surname is pronounced Mac-Yule rather than Mac-Yul)?
Stephen :)
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Silvanus Scrivens
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Schembri and also Slaven.
Her father was a Language interpreter. She married my gr uncle alexander smith
Slaven was born in k1945 kso may well still be alive so the least said the better.
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I have, in 3 consecutive generations, Argent Blundell. Sounds French in origin.
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Loquet and Tongs
marcie
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My 3G grandmother was Ravenscroft McMillan
Tkgafs
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Oh dear. Very, very distant relation named a daughter Scandal :o
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I had an aunt named Theckla. Strangely enough she was known by her second name, Annie ;D ;D
One of her sisters was named Sergia. And another had the second name of Mercia.
And I used to know a guy called Orrie. Not being able to work out what it was short for, I asked him. He said he was born on the ship "Orvieto" and so named! No wonder he called himself Orrie.
;D
Dawn M
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Euphan is the only unusual one I have come across so far.
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In my tree I have a boy with the first name Erl-King, born 1895 on the Isle of Wight. Have never been able to find out how they picked such an unusual name
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We have a Ventrice, an Alman and a Uretta (sounds medical but she was from Bruge
Trees
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I don't have any really unusual names but I do have two women called Marie Antionette. I'm hoping they weren't monachists! Let them eat cake! (or brioche!)
Kim
(the only Kim in my tree, so I guess I'm quite unusual!)
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Hi,
Have enjoyed reading this thread, avm228 once mentioned the name Treandaphelia and had not heard of it before.
Triantafyllia in Greek means Rose, so would imagine the name stems (sorry could not resist) from there.
Sharon.
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My best three are Artaxerxes, Keturah and Cubit.
First two are biblical and the third I think is originally a surname - still working on that one :)
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Have enjoyed reading this thread, avm228 once mentioned the name Treandaphelia and had not heard of it before.
Triantafyllia in Greek means Rose, so would imagine the name stems (sorry could not resist) from there.
Been there!! See replies 339 & 342 ;D
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My best three are Artaxerxes, Keturah and Cubit.
First two are biblical and the third I think is originally a surname - still working on that one :)
I seem to remember a cubit was a unit of measurement and it was commonly the length of a forearm or about 18 inches
Tkgafs
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I have a King and a Queen Perkins.
King died at the christmas table face down in the plum pudding. Rather interesting finish.
Here I thought my family was odd. I have a family with 11 children. They had a King (b.1892), Queenie Elizabeth (b1896), and a Benjamin Franklin. The other children didn't have odd names - just the 2nd & 3rd born and then the 11th.
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Just the surname HOLTAWAY - can't find anyone living with that surname now. Think the last one we have in the tree died in 1995 and didn't have any children.
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I have a Syndonia Wesley who married German Dew
brothers called Ferdinando Northcote Astley and Lacey Phillips Capewell Astley
Celestina Isabel Overfield, Squire Francis Povey, Egerton Howard Stanley Sankey and Agrilla Timbrell also feature in my tree ;D
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Just the surname HOLTAWAY - can't find anyone living with that surname now. Think the last one we have in the tree died in 1995 and didn't have any children.
Maybe a variation of HOLDWAY ??
Dawn M
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Oooo just found two ancestors with the first name Epigony. Anyone know anything about this name?
:)
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Apparently it means "offspring" in Greek! Google the word - you can find out a lot more!
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Zachariah Blick on my mother's side...
and on the same side Parthenia Harris (maiden name unknown)...whose granddaughter was named Ellen Pathina Cutler in her honour, and a great-granddaughter of hers was named Edna Parthenia Bavington. She died in the 20thC I believe, so an 18thC name that has lived on!
Grantham George Kirton on my paternal side, with brother Solomon Kirton... Vincent Bennell... Ralph Kenaz Cutler...
None out of the ordinary, but they were certainly names that made me check again ::)
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beaconsfield tongs christian name sidney
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Gertrude Georgeanna Wallaker.
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Thurston Charles - my 3xG Grand Aunt (or should that be 4xG Aunt - never sure about using grand-aunt). All her sibs had "normal" first names.
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I don't think I can compete with all of these! But here goes:
I have an ancestor called Sampson Whale
I had an aunt who was called Mercy (because my grandparents lost two baby girls before her and said that if God let the next girl live they would call her Mercy.)
My dad's middle name was Bonaventure. I rather like it!
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I also have a Kezia, Hepzibah and Rosezilla - all female.
Also, one Rabbi Shaw - his brothers were usual names, Thomas, William, John. But for some reason he was named Rabbi. He ended up moving from Bulkington (nr Coventry) down to St Pancras, and worked on the railways down in London. He did bring his children back up here to have them baptised though!
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I don't know about uncommon, but I just uncovered a new ancestor - Fanny Dicken. It certainly raised an eyebrow or two in my house. :o
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Lisajj - first time I heard of the name Kezia was when my sister-in-law chose it for her daughter. It turns out it is quite a common name in Cornwall (so I'm told). But there were a few Kezia's in my family tree - all from the west country. Was your Kezia from the west country too?
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My Great-great-grandma Kezia was from Hampshire, moved to Tasmania as a small girl and married Christopher ION - ION has been a blessing and a curse - so often mistranscribed as anything from TON to JOHNSON!
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oh and Charlesworth, my husband has WHALE in his direct line - from Essex to New Zealand
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In my tree I have a boy with the first name Erl-King, born 1895 on the Isle of Wight. Have never been able to find out how they picked such an unusual name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlking
but why you'd give the name of a malevolent forest-spirit to your boy, I don't know!
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oh and Charlesworth, my husband has WHALE in his direct line - from Essex to New Zealand
Ooh! We could be related! My first traceable ancestor is Sampson Whale b. abt 1770 in Mistley, Essex. His son was George Whale b. 1799 in Manningtree, Essex.
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we have Dedeimia and Zepehriah ???
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Amongst the hoards of Williams, Alberts, Fredericks, Georges, Mary Ann(e)s and Elizabeths, etc I've got a Cardinal.
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Well, after a bit of a shock on one of my lines and a good number of hours spent putting things right...
My most uncommon name is now Esau.
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Well Esau is at least biblical, I believe.
I was working at a children's hospital about 10 years ago and a little girl came in with the name Chauvanne. I asked her mother where she found that unusual and pretty name - her reply
"Oh it's a common Irish name"
I didn't have the heart to tell her that's not the way to spell it.
At least the girl (or her descendants, eventually) will know any documentation refers to her!
Dawn M
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I went to school with a girl name Shivonne (the family weren't Irish but pronounced as Siobhan) :)
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Quite distant but I have the Pine-Coffin family!
Charlotte Pine-Coffin and her daughters Caroline, Fanny, Septemia and Octavia of Devon. Old Charlotte died aged 99 in 1882.
Septemia and Octavia both died in 1911 in their nineties.
By the way, I also have an ancestor named Esau Whittle.
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My Kezia was from Bedworth (about 6 miles north of Coventry) in Warwickshire
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wow the Pine Coffins were the lords of the manor that many of my ancestors worked for I doff my cap to ye CV-S
your 'umble servant
Trees
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Hi Trees!
That's very interesting and I must say many of my ancestors on other lines were servants as well (just not to the Pine-Coffins)
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It is said of the P-C's that they paid for many of the emigrants of N.Devon to go to Canada to free the estates of a potential problem ;D don't know if there was any truth behind that or if it is simply myth
Trees
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It seems a Pine-Coffin became a Colonel and was nicknamed the 'Wooden Box' ;D
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My Kezia was from Bedworth (about 6 miles north of Coventry) in Warwickshire
Isn't Kezia a biblical name?
Dawn M
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Kezia .... biblical ....
One of the daughter of Job, I think.
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My Oh GG grandmother had sisters called Lucretia,Letitia.& Vashti,their Grandmother was Sabina.
Liz
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Vashti Sabina Phillips?
I think I know a distant cousin of your OH, Liz :)
Cheers,
China
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Vashti Sabina Phillips?
I think I know a distant cousin of your OH, Liz :)
Cheers,
China
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Hi Holleah and welcome to Rootschat! Did you want to add something to this thread?
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hello Holleah nice to meet you
I have this week found a Richard Rechab Ralph Gribble wich must have been a weighty aliteration to carry through life
Trees
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Hi,
I have a lady baptised Arethusa. She must have liked the name as it was passed on to her first daughter.
Geoff
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Someone told me that Vashti was likely to be a Romany name...my worst is Polyxenia....
...good score in Scrabble tho...
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I have Gt Gt Aunts Marvelly, Adina and Elettra (Elet). They were Jamaican.
Busybod
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Someone told me that Vashti was likely to be a Romany name
Interesting...I have passed it on to Vashti's descendant.
Cheers,
China
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Melesina. On freeBMD, I can only see about 10 babies called Melesina in a 100years of english and welsh births.
And her surname wasn't all that common either, - Melesina Tidd :)
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Dolphin/Daulphin Marchant is one I found yesterday...
Kerenhappuch Josey is another...found yesterday...a biblical name I believe
Matt
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Keren-happuch, hyphenated, was one of Job's daughters born after the restoration of his family.
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I have an Osmond (1599-1671) and an Eranamous (sic) should be Hieronomous! Interesting though this is a male name it is used by a woman. Interestingly she went back to her family after having an illegitimate child after 8 years of marriage and her husband was allowed to remarry. (1750's) Not surprising with a name like that!
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I have several named Eulalia. It was my great grandmother's given name & is my aunt's middle name. Mis-spellings on census have been mind boggling.
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I have recently added Percy Artiss to my tree.
Don't say it too quickly :o :o :o
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Don't know if this has been posted up before but many of you may find this of interest - the GB names profiler, the results of a project by UCL to look at frequency and location of British names in the 19th and 20th centuries.
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org/
Louise
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Not mine, but in the 1964 British General Election a candidate Eric Moonman was asked by a constituent if she could name her baby after him. He was surprised but amazed to find that she didn't want to call the baby Eric, but his slogan. His campaign slogan was "Launch Moonman" So there is somewhere in the UK a guy in his late 40s called Launch. Poor chap!
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I too have a Kezia in my tree. One of her children had a first name of "Docter".
There's an Ezit in there too. Has to be biblical.
My ggg gm Arabella Marsh married Thomas Bullough. She appears in 1861 as "Bellow Bullough". Maybe she had a loud voice!
A relative of her husband was actually Bullough Bullough. Some parents had no imagination!
There are loads of surnames used as unusual given names. My Breakel Dunbabin turns out to have a grandmother born Anne Brekhill.
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I can claim a couple of Keziahs, as they appear in censuses and so forth, but they
were registered at birth as Keturah. One, my great Aunt, called herself Kate on marriage,
and stuck with that for life.
vv.
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I was surprised to find that in my mother's tree there is a Nebuccanezzer. Or, as the extended family specialised in Old Testament names, perhaps I wasn't.
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Continued here:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,546333.0.html