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Offline MaureeninNY

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #36 on: Friday 29 June 07 19:28 BST (UK) »
Mine are SHOVE and OUNSTED (both U.K.)
 The SHOVEs are fairly easy to research-it's the transcription errors that drive me mad. :) Good old Harry SHOVE shows up on the 1901 online as Flurry SHONE. ::)
 And the OUNSTEDs?? Anybody else out there??

Maureen
born a SMITH so pretty much anything is uncommon to me  :) :)

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #37 on: Friday 29 June 07 21:24 BST (UK) »
i have UNSTEAD's i wonder if they are related to your OUNSTED?
Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear/e- Monkleigh Gazey-Warwicks

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #38 on: Friday 29 June 07 22:46 BST (UK) »
I have Nipperess, Gaukrodger, Bintcliffe, Spittle, Berkshire, Tegg, Millinchip. It doesn't always make it easier to find them!

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Monmouthshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire and nearby areas.
Bilcliffe one name study all areas.

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #39 on: Saturday 30 June 07 13:02 BST (UK) »
Well I have g/g/g/granny born in Scotland as Martha Selfridge, arrived in New South Wales as a young girl and the Aussies turned her into a Sefferidge!!  Not too many Sefferidges/Seffridges floating around!

I wonder how they changed it??? - must have been a terrible accent!

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HOLTON - Buckingham, Middlesex, New Zealand, Australia
JARVIS - Buckingham, Hertford, Australia
CROSS - Walmer Kent, New Zealand
PURSER - Idlicote, Warwickshire

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #40 on: Saturday 30 June 07 23:57 BST (UK) »
Wish I had more uncommon one's , Le Gros Martin tends to be a bit of a devil , but having LANES as a surname is mind blowing , no point in putting it in a search engine,    Eilleen.
EXTON, from Rutland, Stamford, Boston, Lincoln. LANES, from Coleby,to Bracebridge Lincoln.WAKEFIELD,PROUDMAN Cheshire and  Stafford.<br />PINDAR, MOORE, ,CHAMBERS mostly from Lincolnshire.
LAING from Elgin ,Scotland.
 HADDELSEY from Caistor,and Grimsby Lincolnshire.                   
 Parfitt, Le Gros ,Le Sueur, from Jersey.
Martin, from Doncaster  to whelyn garden city, London.
BINT, Worchester, in Australian mint.

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #41 on: Sunday 01 July 07 16:39 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Eilleen on Saturday 30 June 07 23:57 BST (UK)
......  but having LANES as a surname is mind blowing , no point in putting it in a search engine, Eilleen.
I know what you mean.  I have similar problems with Pond  ::)

Thank god Street is not in my family

JULIAN
ESSEX  Carter, Enever, Jeffrey, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrell, Staines, Stephens, Surry, Theobald HUNTS  Danns KENT  Luetchford, Wood NOTTINGHAMSHIRE  Baker, Dunks, Kemp, Price, Priestley, Swain, Woodward SUFFOLK  Rose SURREY  Bedel, Bransden, Bysh, Coleman, Gibbs, Quinton SUSSEX Gibbs, Langridge, Pilbeam, Spencer WILTSHIRE  Brice, Rumble

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #42 on: Sunday 01 July 07 22:33 BST (UK) »
Think that is bad , try googling cock or cocks

Bob
Douglas, Varnden, Joy(i)ce Surrey, Clarke Northants/Hunts, Pullen Worcs/Herefords, Holmes Birmingham/USA/Canada/Australia, Jackson Cheshire/Yorkshire, Lomas Cheshire, Lee Yorkshire, Cocks Lancashire, Leah Cheshire, Cook Yorkshire, Catlow Lancashire
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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #43 on: Sunday 01 July 07 22:36 BST (UK) »
Um.....no thanks  :D
Bartlett/Henley on Thames
Caponhurst/Buckinghamshire and?
Denchfield/North Marston/Bucks
Webb/Winchester
Mathias/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
John/Pembroke/Pembroke Dock
Smith/Portsmouth/Portsea
Purchas/Bucks and?
Olliffe/Bucks

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Re: most uncommon surnames in your tree
« Reply #44 on: Sunday 01 July 07 22:43 BST (UK) »
I have Leahair (Huguenot Origins), Palfreyman, Whitrow, Shutlar and Syrett .
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Rodway London 19-20c
Kirk London/Brum/Coventry/London 19c
Blower Warwicks 19c
Syrett/Brewer/Cranwell London 19c
Punter Herts/London 19c
Whitrow/Hutchings/Leeworthy/Goldsworthy/May - Devon 19-20c

Stoodley Dorset/Hants/Wilts 18-20c
Cooper/Clark Broughton, Hants 18c
Moody - East Dean/Sherfield English Hants 18/19c
White  Aspull/Wigan, Lancs 19-20c
West/Angel/Johnson/Clark  S. Wilts 19-20c
Edwards  Wardour/Ansty, Wilts 19c
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