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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #369 on: Tuesday 19 May 20 14:57 BST (UK) »
I've just come across the Medhurst family in Leicestershire in the mid 1800s.

The parents, Benjamin and Sarah, gave their first daughter the name Mary and a later one, Clara. One son was called Simeon. Then they went off piste with subsequent children called:

Shiloh; Hessuth(or Kossuth - even the registrar couldn't cope with this one); Messiah; and Cherubim (all boys)

and for their two other daughters, Angel, and Zipporah.

I'm imagining a particularly fiery preacher in their local chapel!
Bradbury (Sedgeley, Bilston, Warrington)
Cooper (Sedgeley, Bilston)
Kilner/Kilmer (Leic, Notts)
Greenfield (Liverpool)
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Pryce/Price (Welshpool, Liverpool)
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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #370 on: Tuesday 19 May 20 14:59 BST (UK) »
I wonder if the neighbours ever said, "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
Bradbury (Sedgeley, Bilston, Warrington)
Cooper (Sedgeley, Bilston)
Kilner/Kilmer (Leic, Notts)
Greenfield (Liverpool)
Holyland (Anywhere and everywhere, also Holiland Holliland Hollyland)
Pryce/Price (Welshpool, Liverpool)
Rawson (Leicester)
Upton (Desford, Leics)
Partrick (Vera and George, Leicester)
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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #371 on: Friday 11 March 22 12:23 GMT (UK) »
I've just found a Salisbury Whisker marrying in 1855 Ayr, Scotland.

I have Whisker (unusual surname in itself) in my tree, a marry-in of Irish descent.

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South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #372 on: Friday 11 March 22 14:06 GMT (UK) »
Oh I love that one. Salisbury Whisker conjours up an image of a very upright man with a thick full beard. 😀
Much better than the Posthumous Thomas I came across recently. ☹️
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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #373 on: Friday 11 March 22 14:23 GMT (UK) »
I came across a prosperous New York grocer in 1870 named Westminister [sic] Abbey.  He had one son named Westminister, Jr. but all the other kids had ordinary names.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #374 on: Friday 11 March 22 22:52 GMT (UK) »
Oh I love that one. Salisbury Whisker conjours up an image of a very upright man with a thick full beard.

This was a female which was surprising.

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South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #375 on: Saturday 12 March 22 07:47 GMT (UK) »
Oh goodness, that's a surprise! I'll need a completely different image. 😄
Ambrose; Llandilofawr, Pennsylvania.
Grindley; Llandilofawr, Ohio, Louisiana, Washington DC.
Rees(e); Pennsylvania.
Lewis, Llandilofawr.

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #376 on: Thursday 28 April 22 18:38 BST (UK) »
I was doing my husband's tree today and came across a Butterworth Butterworth. His brother Thomas married on of my husband's relatives way back when.

I thought it was a mistake and looked on the Lancashire OPC and lo and behold there were others starting in 1813. On Free BMD there are five from 1845 to 1892.

mab :)
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Inishowen: Meenamullaghan (Big Hill), Foffenagh (Rock), Illies and area...mainly McCallion, Doherty, Bradley, Grant, Devlin
Kilmacrenan: Gortnacorrib....Bonner
Scotland: Bonar, Boner Bonner etc
Conwal: Kirkstown.....Toner, Parke
Derry City: Bonner, McGowan, McGilloway, McElwee, Bradley
Omagh: Bradley
Fanad Penninsular, Donegal.....McBride, Friel, Fielty
Sligo: McGowan

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #377 on: Friday 29 April 22 01:32 BST (UK) »
I was doing my husband's tree today and came across a Butterworth Butterworth. His brother Thomas married on of my husband's relatives way back when.

I thought it was a mistake and looked on the Lancashire OPC and lo and behold there were others starting in 1813. On Free BMD there are five from 1845 to 1892.

mab :)

Was this in the Burnley area?  I have come across quite a number of these “double names” there.