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Hello
Just out of curiosity, what are the most unusual/unique names you have come across in your research?
The majority of men will be named William, John or James, whilst women are usually named Elizabeth, Mary or Sarah.
However there are times you come across a name that makes you either chuckle or groan at.
I have found some very odd names including;
Redrum
Ethelreda
Decimus
Hanora
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I have a great great granduncle called Hall, Hall Burdon.
I though it was odd having a surname for a forename, but that was before I learnt that was not uncommon in the North East (think Robson Green for a modern example).
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJQG-TYM
It turns out Hall was the maiden name of his maternal grandmother
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Great Find
Its was the same with Redrum.
He was named Redrum Osborn and he was a waterman from Norfolk. His mothers surname was Redrum
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Damarzin Pizey - listed as a member of the Woodbridge Beaumont Baptist Chapel from 1836 to 1848.
Not many people have two zeds in their name!
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I can add Eranamus. aka Hieronymous. SHE married into the Luffman family in the mid 18th century in Dorset, and left it in pretty short order having given birth to an illegitimate child. Sherborne district of Dorset.
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I've got a long list but my favourite is still Africa Bastard. His son was named Africa Bastard, too. I'd love to know the story behind that name.
Josephine
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;D :o
Cracker........ ;D
Annie
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I've got a "Hephzebah" in my tree.
But can anyone beat "Rose Midwinter" for a name that even Mills & Boon would find a little too poetic to be real?
But real it is!
BugBear
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I have a branch of family that named all their children with the same letter:
Mary Ann
Matthew
Mark
Martha
Margery
Mabel
Margaret
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Melesina Tidd; my gt gt grannie's sister.
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Philadelphia Naldrett .... c1760, Sussex
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I have an affection for "Bathia", don't know why!
Regards
Malky
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In my family tree;
Three sons with first names;
Barnabus Joshua Sydney
Percy Herbert Benoni
Stanley Tertius Benoni
Joe
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I was intrigued with this middle name:
"Elizabeth Flowerdew Harrison" when I first came across her and thought her parents must have had some sort of romantic notions. Although I've not yet come across it in my family tree research I have seen that it was/is a proper surname.
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Great help for me starting off researching my Mum's family, her name Was Jessie McMillan Mason
McAughtrie. Her Mum Elizabeth BOYD Walker Watson. Her Dad Robert Houston McAughtrie, and her sister Mary Houston McAughtrie.
All on Mum and Dad's Marriage cert! Extra names of her parents and sister were all noted on the back, as well as those of my Dad's extras!
What a lucky lass I Was to have all that to start off with, along with other papers in my Grandmothers little box of treasure that I found when she died! She even had my Dad's birth cert!
Written on the back of her own birth certificate was the marriage date and place of her parents marriage too! All of which gave me a wonderful start!
Not wonderfully unique names, but I often wonder how long it would have taken me to get those three generations!
Jeanne
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I have a 3xgrand aunt who married a Winter Frost, who had a son called Winter Frost
I wonder if that marriage had a chill to it? lol
Also found an Esaisus who it is sometimes written as Ozias.
Jim
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HI,
Here are a couple from the baptisms at St James church in Abinger:
1785 January 18th, Thos Merryweather, a foundling.
1785 May 12th, A Foundling Infant whimsically named Warley Heath.
Cheers
Maurice
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There's a Prince Snow is my family tree ;D
However, my favourites are-
Oughtsorengoughton ('he passes through the year' baptised as Timothy)
Tookanowras ('he splits the door' baptised as Silas) with a daughter-
Kaniaronkas ('she gathers snakes')
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I was intrigued with this middle name:
"Elizabeth Flowerdew Harrison" when I first came across her and thought her parents must have had some sort of romantic notions. Although I've not yet come across it in my family tree research I have seen that it was/is a proper surname.
Just spotted a Maria FlowerdeN Lubbock married Isaac Bailey in Norwich 1836
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There is a previous topic (different OP) on the same subject?!:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=318197.0