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Offline JillJ

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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 07 October 04 13:12 BST (UK) »
Haven't time to search through nearly 1,422 names but I know there are masses of Joseph, Benjamin, William, John, James, Ann, Alice, Felix, Francis, Sarah and Mary.

I think the two most unusual ones are Kezia and Murwin (also spelled Murven/Mirwen)

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Jowett & Broadbent in Leeds.
Perry, Hartshorn/e & Wilkes in Birmingham & Dudley. Walker and Dabill in Sheffield & Notts.
Farrar in Darlington & Leeds.
Kidd & Taylor in Hartlepool & Teesside
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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 07 October 04 21:36 BST (UK) »
Most of mine are Joseph and Caroline, with th odd John thrown in!
 
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Ryder- Limehouse/Canning Town.
Couley- Limehouse. 
Hogben- Canning Town/Kent
Richbell- Kent.
Davies - Lancashire
Lester - Berkshire

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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #11 on: Friday 08 October 04 12:40 BST (UK) »
FRANCIS !

Generations of them, the last known one was given as a middle name to my husbands grandfather, then they stopped for two generations. When i had my little boy, he said that he liked the name Francis....i called him Samuel ! ;)

Joanne
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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #12 on: Friday 08 October 04 12:49 BST (UK) »
Mine tend to run to William, Samuel, George, Mary and Annies but I have only got back about 4 generations so far so we will have to see what crops up.

Isn't it odd that you can be looking through a list of names on site searches and say - yes that could be one of mine or no we never had one of them in the family

Its a good job really that names tend to run in families its hard enough trying to trace them as it is

And I am the only Kay so far  :D
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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #13 on: Friday 08 October 04 12:51 BST (UK) »
I haven't done a head count yet but the most common name has to be Sarah with Henry (Harry) coming in a close second.

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Brassington - Leek
Byrne - Liverpool and Macclesfield
Crooks - Liverpool and St Helens
Chittenden - Kent
Gorse - St Helens
Martin - Kent and India
Rimmer, Scott - Lancashire
Little - India
Gilliard - Essex and Kent
Brookes, Woolley - Worcestershire

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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #14 on: Friday 08 October 04 12:55 BST (UK) »
Jan
i have a one Janine in my tree, my sister !

and one Joanne.....me ! ::)
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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 09 October 04 15:56 BST (UK) »
William!!!! In every branch of my tree both paternal and maternal.  I have 9 William Nixons alone out of the 500 persons in my tree.  47 Williams in all.  Talk about hard trying to keep track. 
George William Burke.. my missing link!! son of Wm Burke & Mary Jane Stone/Morris
Shields & Milner- Patrington  & Bilton, Yorkshire<br />Nixon & Bowers - Appleby, Broughton & Messingham, Lincolnshire<br />Hancock &Tyson- Tetford, Skendleby & Spilsby, Lincolnshire<br />Cochrane- Darvel, Loudon, Ayrshire<br />Yuill, Hardie- Paisley, Renfrewshire<br />Kennedy, Gardener & Clelland- Glasgow, Lanarkshire & Paisley, Renfrewshire<br /><br />Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchive

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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 22 August 06 03:52 BST (UK) »
Quote from: nutkin on Saturday 09 October 04 15:56 BST (UK)
William!!!! In every branch of my tree both paternal and maternal.  I have 9 William Nixons alone out of the 500 persons in my tree.  47 Williams in all.  Talk about hard trying to keep track. 

For me William is at the top of the list for various branches
Zelley,  Lovell, Godbold, Woods, Phillips, Lewis, Emery,
Magee, Baker, White. Flisher, Kyne, Tilston, Valence/Vallens,
Mabb/Mabbe, Bellamy, Selley, Martha Smith, Arno (of Dartmouth, Devon}.
Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent,  Devon
North Wales          

The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
places, with various occupations

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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 22 August 06 08:27 BST (UK) »
Elizabeth and John with a smattereing of Marys and James's!

I'm the only Wendy tho!
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Pearson Newcastle/Allendale<br />Sparke Allendale<br />Rees, Davies Pembrokeshire<br />Spence Leyburn<br />Foster Armley to battle creek USA<br />Leeming N Yorkshire<br />Stewart or Stuart Gateshead
Scott Leyburn
Roantree Leyburn
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