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Unusual first/middle name
« on: Wednesday 03 March 04 00:12 GMT (UK) »
Hi All,
        The name is Ejester, or Edgester, or Egester. It is the first and middle names for various members of the wickham, and then Evans families. The name began in Norfolk, as far as I am aware, i.e. Egester Wickham, born about 1780 in Norfolk, somewhere, and shows up in Dunton in 1821.
       Then there is Ejester, born 1868, in Swainsthorp, Norfolk.
        Then finally, this century, I have an uncle Alfred Ejester Evans, son of Evans/Wickham born 1930's.

I am sure the variants are transcriptions rather than the original name.
Have you seen this name anywhere else?
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Re:Unusual first/middle name
« Reply #1 on: Friday 05 March 04 20:17 GMT (UK) »
Is Egester a name of German origin perhaps?
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Re:Unusual first/middle name
« Reply #2 on: Friday 05 March 04 20:30 GMT (UK) »
Hello Kevan,

I also found the following in the 1881 census. 1 Egesster in Kent, 2 Egesta in Kent and 2 Egeston again in kent.

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Mott, Jones, Greenway, Morris, Bates, Mackay, Colley, Wagstaffe, Rickwood, Winston, Sockett, Bates, Haylock, Winston, Cleminson, Goodwin, Sockett, Bevan, Williams, Bell, Johnson and Dearson.

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Re:Unusual first/middle name
« Reply #3 on: Friday 05 March 04 21:21 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for the replies, both Trystan and Sarah. Can you tell me the surnames that matched these queries, Sarah? I did a blanket search for these firstnames and came up with zero results.
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Re:Unusual first/middle name
« Reply #4 on: Friday 05 March 04 21:24 GMT (UK) »
The only way I suspected that it might have been of German origin is because I just used www.google.com and searched for 'Egester' and saw that quite a number of the sites were German.
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Re:Unusual first/middle name
« Reply #5 on: Friday 05 March 04 21:37 GMT (UK) »
Dear Kevan,

I am using different software one is a new version the other old. The only one I am sure of is:

Egesster SHIRMER     Female Servant

SHIMER looks quite German !

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Robinson, Roberts, Roles, Griffiths, Walton, Royle, Chorlton,
Mott, Jones, Greenway, Morris, Bates, Mackay, Colley, Wagstaffe, Rickwood, Winston, Sockett, Bates, Haylock, Winston, Cleminson, Goodwin, Sockett, Bevan, Williams, Bell, Johnson and Dearson.

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Re:Unusual first/middle name
« Reply #6 on: Friday 05 March 04 23:03 GMT (UK) »
Excuse me for being silly, but I did a translation of one of the German pages:
 
Max Kruse
Urmel drives balloon
 
A trip to the planet Egeste becomes for professor Tibatong and its animals a large adventure. On Egeste that was not invented flies yet. And the emperor of the Egester would like to be able also once in such a way by air sails like Schusch and the Urmel. The professor gruebelt and gruebelt and comes finally on a mad idea...

So, I think the word is used in fantasy land. maybe. Amusing thought .....
I know ejester comes up with some interesting google items in English, too. I will stick to plying through the Norfolk 1861 census for the moment.
New kitchen arrives tomorrow, so I will also be off to other planets  for the next few days.
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Re:Unusual first/middle name
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 06 March 04 01:03 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone have the name of Luce (as a forename) in their family?
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Re:Unusual first/middle name
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 06 March 04 13:59 GMT (UK) »
I don't have Luce as a forename but do have it as a surname.  I assume it is probably someone from a Luce family.  I have a Luce family from Jersey.  It will probably be a French name originally.

Unless of course it is short for Lucy

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Jersey: Barette, de Gruchy
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