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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #216 on: Saturday 30 October 10 00:43 BST (UK) »
Here's a flavoursome one - Curry Goat, no not from Birmingham but from Brandon, Suffolk in 1851 the father of Mary Ann Goat, she married George Howes, she also had a brother in the household called Curry Goat - I couldn't bring myself to add it to the tree !!  Can this be real ??

This one is for real, he is my gt-gt-gt-gt Grandad !!
Boardman (Lancashire)
Campbell (Ireland, Blackburn, Bradford)
Gilmartin/Kilmartin (Bradford)
Goat (Norfolk, Yorkshire)
Littler (Ashton in Makerfield, Billinge)
McMahon (Ireland, Selkirk, Glasgow, Bradford)
Pilling (Lancashire)

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #217 on: Sunday 31 October 10 08:30 GMT (UK) »
any one heard of the Church for Peculiar People  it exsisted around either Essex or Suffolk?

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« Reply #218 on: Sunday 31 October 10 11:44 GMT (UK) »
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #219 on: Monday 01 November 10 07:52 GMT (UK) »
thankyou Trees i've found it.


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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #220 on: Sunday 07 November 10 22:55 GMT (UK) »
Jabez Mellor, Shepherd Hill, Hosetta Wimpenny !
Anyone ever heard o fthe name Hosetta before? may be biblical?

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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #221 on: Sunday 07 November 10 23:17 GMT (UK) »
Annanias.  They used to call him Uncle Nice.  He had a brother Appollos, who was Uncle Pol.

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« Reply #222 on: Sunday 07 November 10 23:48 GMT (UK) »
My great aunt who insisted on being addressed as Great Aunt Alicia turned out to be Alice Fanny Minnie! I disgraced myself by a loud guffaw in the Record Office when I found that gem
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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #223 on: Monday 08 November 10 01:01 GMT (UK) »
Freak as a surname - prevalent in County Durham but does exist in other countries. Sometimes Freek, Freick, Frieck, Fricke and more. Not a good name to find on Indexes. ADMONITION  Drew baptised 9 October 1768, Stoke Damerel, Devon, Daughter of William Drew and Joyce GAY.


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Re: What is your most uncommon name ? #2
« Reply #224 on: Monday 08 November 10 11:55 GMT (UK) »
Loyzelure, my OH has six of these in his tree, mainly Dennysons and they're driving me demented.
Watson, Snowball, Pyburn, Heppell, Ferry, Holmes, Clennett, Kidd, Pescod, Bage Co.Duham & Northumberland
Stockton, Watson, Bage, Nellist N. Yorks
Challnor/Challoner Cheshire/Shropshire. Moore, Mansell: Wellington, Shropshire
Davies/ David, Coity, Glamorgan
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