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Kizba
and Blair Athol
which is great so different to Mary and John :)
xin
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The first sounds like a dessert and the second a liqueur ;D
https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/12627/atholl-brose-liqueur
I remember drinking it on "Burn's Night"
Any Licensed Victuallers or Pastry Chefs in the family Xin ;D
Carol
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It is odd that we love the unusual names of 100 or 200 or more years ago, and yet frown when we hear children on the bus called Beyonce or Chardonnay.
At school I was one of three Martins in a class of 31 boys, and we each had a father who was a bank manager.
Martin
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yes - maybe there were fond of a drop or two.
Grandad seems could have been a 'Garibaldi'
gets even dafter..
surname Osborne.. born around the 1900's in Warwickshire.
xin
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They are great names though aren't they, and such a change from the run of the mill names as you say.
Carol
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I am sure any descendants will be blessing their parents - those names will surely make it a heck of a lot easier for family genealogists to find them! ;D
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Blair Atholl(sic) is a village in Scotland near Killiecrankie.
Roger
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Yes found that and wondering about the reasoning..
they do seem to have arty / names.. but bless them still didnt spell very well in the 1911
The one parent or brother maybe has written the names a little wrong.
It is a family I would like to pop and visit.. on that old machine..
This is My Jane Clarkes 2nd husband and kids...
Elsie Blair Athol and Arthur known as Artzy
xin
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Many years ago I worked with a woman named Iris. Her many sisters all had flower names - Lily, Rose, Violet etc.
Jane :-)
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My Great Great Grandparents seemed to be working through the New Testament .. ;D
Mary, Joseph, Simon Peter, James, John, Thomas ..
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This name thing is strange
My mother was Ivy Lilian Green
her (my sister )daughter became a Leaf when she married..
xin
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Many years ago I worked with a woman named Iris. Her many sisters all had flower names - Lily, Rose, Violet etc.
Jane :-)
Just needed a Hyacinth to make up the full Bouquet (or Bucket?) ;D
Carol
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I have a Nobel Lattamore in my tree.
Regards
Chas
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yes - maybe there were fond of a drop or two.
xin
Could be... Blair Athol spelt with one "l" is the single malt whisky from Bell's distillery in Pitlochry.
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Blair Atholl(sic) is a village in Scotland near Killiecrankie.
Roger
... and a town in Qld, Australia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair_Athol,_Queensland
:)
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At school I was one of three Martins in a class of 31 boys, and we each had a father who was a bank manager.
Just think, you could have been called Midland, or National Provincial... ;D
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At school I was one of three Martins in a class of 31 boys, and we each had a father who was a bank manager.
Just think, you could have been called Midland, or National Provincial... ;D
You could have changed your name from Martin to Barclay.
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Brilliant names YES
but still not easy to search.... little blighters done a runner...
the eldest brother named as ARTZY which is later Harthur / Arthur I found..
then the second one David Ward Kibaz... --- nothing...
Elsie Blair Athol still looking.. later today..
so I think the names were changed
xin
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Maiden Stone, at the time there was Martin's Bank, although it had lost its apostrophe in 1928, closing in 1969, after all 700 branches became... Barclays.
Martin
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Maiden Stone, at the time there was Martin's Bank, although it had lost its apostrophe in 1928, closing in 1969, after all 700 branches became... Barclays.
Martin
Martin('s) was the bank my dad & his family used. GF would have banked there in 1928. I was taken to open an account when I was still at school. The bank manager said I had to use my first and middle names so I wouldn't be confused with others in the extended family. Recently I found out that I share my first name with an older cousin who lived in the town until her marriage. She has always used her middle name.
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Blair Atholl(sic) is a village in Scotland near Killiecrankie.
Roger
Perhaps parents honeymooned there.
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Roger
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Perhaps parents honeymooned there.
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Nice thought - the original Becks family maybe... but doubtful two pennies to rub together would have helped.
xin
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I have several generations of DOSITHEUS TWIGGs in my distant ancestry.
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I was so chuffed when I found a Lavinia in my tree. I also have a Lois and a Loanda which I'm also rather fond of; such a change from Mary and Elsie.
A few days ago day I found a Delcie, with BMD and census I have 6 different versions of her name ::) I'm sticking with 1939 register and calling her Dulcie.
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I have a Gertrude Georgeanna Wallaker as my ancestor. Handy, as her married name was Taylor.
Spanisher Robson, who wed a distant uncle of mine in the 1830s.
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Many years ago I worked with a woman named Iris. Her many sisters all had flower names - Lily, Rose, Violet etc.
Jane :-)
The Darling Buds of May?? 😀
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I've recently read the Will of a preacher - Henry Asser, dated 1615, I thought the names of his children were unusual but lovely.
His sons Lordsneare , Experience , Befaithful and Timothy Asser
His youngest children Godheard and Christian Asser
And a daughter Hope Asser.
Claire
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If you really want to immerse yourself in unusual names try Russell Ash's book
"Potty Fartwell and Knob", a collection of extraordinary,but true names , of British people, all culled from official records and documents.
Here's a couple taken at random
Pete Bog - married Eliza Young St Pancras 1812.
Walter Mellon Born Salford Lancashire 1839
and how about....Charles Caractacus Ostorius Maximillian Gustavus Adolphus Stone baptised in Burbage,Wiltshire 29th April 1781.
and there are hundreds of others besides.
Enjoy!
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I’ve written about them on a previous thread, but twins Castor and Pollux Gollishoff warrant a second mention :)
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When researching my aunt's house in Lower Holloway I came across a former occupier in 1881 named Robert Head, who was a retired policeman but now the mortuary keeper, his wife Martha, and their son who was an undertaker, named Richard.
:-*
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Just reading a will where the testatrix mentions her nephew 'Parke Anicetus Honoree'.
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My cousin said she and her husband named their son Atholl in recognition of the historical Clan Forbes branch he belonged to.
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If you really want to immerse yourself in unusual names try Russell Ash's book
"Potty Fartwell and Knob", a collection of extraordinary,but true names , of British people, all culled from official records and documents.
Here's a couple taken at random
Pete Bog - married Eliza Young St Pancras 1812.
I noticed several men called Peat Bog and many others with Bog as surname in a transcription of Irish Tithe Applotments. ;D Confusion over columns of people's names and columns describing their land-holdings.
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I know a lady whose maiden name was Willey, she is a lifelong family friend. Bet she got some stick at school for her surname. ;D
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Had I known the maiden name of my G G Grandmother I would have used it for one of my son’s names.
Cordley ,now I know it was used in each generation especially by the family members who emigrated to Australia in the 1850’s gold rush at Sofala and
Bathurst. She was their mother and would never see her sons again or know her grandchildren.
She died alone in Lincolnshire six sons went ,two died and her daughters moved to where their husbands came from.
My G Grandma was her youngest.
I have sen photographs of graves and Cordley is a common second name.
It has a certain ring to it.
John Cordley Cole.
Viktoria