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Offline Anneatki

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #153 on: Friday 12 June 15 13:03 BST (UK) »
Thanks Aghadowey! I learn something every day on Rootschat! What about Frizzel?  ::)
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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #154 on: Friday 12 June 15 13:16 BST (UK) »
Here's what I've come across in my tree and people I've helped, all found in the United Kingdom:

Freelove
Mahala
Israel
Jasper
Smith (as a first name!)
Zephaniah
Zilpha
Zillah
Zachariah
Dinah
Jemima
Noah

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #155 on: Friday 12 June 15 13:24 BST (UK) »
Thanks Aghadowey! I learn something every day on Rootschat! What about Frizzel?  ::)

Frizzel/Frizel/Frizzle, etc. is a surname  :)

www.frizellefamilytree.com/index.php/origin-of-the-name-frizelle
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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #156 on: Friday 12 June 15 13:26 BST (UK) »
we have a Christiana, Letitia and Helek.    I know Christiana was popular many years ago but Helek?


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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #157 on: Friday 12 June 15 13:33 BST (UK) »
I have one family with sons Henry, George, Charles....

.....and Azariah  :o
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
Australia: Mary Lewis, transportee, married Henry Brown - what happened to her?

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #158 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 17:16 BST (UK) »
Spanisher. My ancestors brother married a Spanisher Robson.
Kerrenhappuch. I also found an ancestor sibling from Suffolk who wed a Kerrenhappuch.
Lorken Wallaker, I think Lorken is a local surname in the area also used for a forename.
Christiana.


Pity there are not more instances of first names with a common surname such as Kerrenhappuch Smith. lol.
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DORSET Coombs, Munday
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SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
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SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #159 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 22:40 BST (UK) »
Jabez is mentioned in the Bible, in the book of Leviticus. It means 'born in my pain (or grief)' . Jabez Whitaker is an ancestor of mine. He was born 3 days after the death of his father.

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #160 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 22:59 BST (UK) »
How do you describe a middle name  which is someone elses  surname?

For example:  My dads middle name was "Nursall"   

I should think his name in total was pretty close to being unique.
Nursall   ~    Buckinghamshire
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« Reply #161 on: Wednesday 24 June 15 23:05 BST (UK) »
I have a Lucilla and a very odd Vena-Dora...often mis-transcribed as Vence-Dora.
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