What is your most uncommon name ? #2

[DianaCanada]

I have a direct ancestor named Orange- yes, like the color- Riley Sproat. Riley was his mother's maiden name, but who... why.. how did he end up with Orange for a first name!

When I was doing New England research years ago, the name Orange did turn up as a boy’s name. Something to do with Protestants?

[conahy calling]

The surname "Orange" is recorded in the Irish census for 1901 and 1911.
 Most of them are Church of Ireland.

[DianaCanada]

The surname "Orange" is recorded in the Irish census for 1901 and 1911.
 Most of them are Church of Ireland.

There were a number of Ulster Scot settlers that arrived in New Hampshire ca 1710 and gradually generations moved north into Vermont and into Quebec, some of my children’s ancestors were among them.  Possibly they influenced the use of Orange as a given name in that area.

[coombs]

That Spanisher Robson who wed into my family in 1831 was actually Penelope Spanisher Robson. So the Spanisher was a middle name.

[ajm314159]

Exploring my Kent Tanton family once I came across the baptism of Hughridgiane Tanton, daughter of John Tanton, potter, Upper Towne, Deptford: baptised St Nicholas, 1 Aug 1721.

This is the most unusual forename I have seen.  Presumably a clerical attempt at something, but what?  (There's an Armenian family name variously spelt Eurijian Euridgian etc but why that?)

She seems to have gone by “Anne”.