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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #441 on: Saturday 11 February 23 15:29 GMT (UK) »
I have a Gertrude Georgeanna Wallaker, my 2xgreat gran. Born in Essex to an Oxfordshire mother and a father of part Suffolk ancestry, as was the case for many of my Essex people.

Her married name was Taylor. But her unique first name middle names made me easy to trace her after she married.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
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 #442 on: Sunday 05 March 23 15:53 GMT (UK) »
Just doing a bit more transcribing - how about

Hardcastle Worsley

as his  :-\ first names - poor little mite died at the age of 4.
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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #443 on: Sunday 05 March 23 16:11 GMT (UK) »
Just found this one yesterday when looking for a more prosaic Sarah:

Phfurmutus Marcroft, baptized Salford, Lancs. in 1908.

FreeBMD has the name as Pafurmutua (not much better!)

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #444 on: Sunday 05 March 23 16:21 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: BettyofKent on Friday 10 February 23 16:33 GMT (UK)
Words fail me with this one, the poor child has the middle name of  Ringdingdiddyiddyumdumda

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/my-neighbours-name-stupid-asked-29172999

Remind me never to play "My Red Letter" against HIM!
All identified names up to and including my great x5 grandparents: Abbot Andrews Baker Blenc(h)ow Brothers Burrows Chambers Clifton Cornwell Escott Fisher Foster Frost Giddins Groom Hardwick Harris Hart Hayho(e) Herman Holcomb(e) Holmes Hurley King-Spooner Martindale Mason Mitchell Murphy Neves Oakey Packman Palmer Peabody Pearce Pettit(t) Piper Pottenger Pound Purkis Rackliff(e) Richardson Scotford Sherman Sinden Snear Southam Spooner Stephenson Varing Weatherley Webb Whitney Wiles Wright

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #445 on: Sunday 05 March 23 16:23 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: BumbleB on Thursday 20 October 22 16:24 BST (UK)
And another one which I transcribed today - Ages - birth and death registered in 1869.

BUT then I looked again on FreeBMD for forename "Ages" and there are loads of them  :-[

"Ages" is just a chickenless Agnes (no N's)
All identified names up to and including my great x5 grandparents: Abbot Andrews Baker Blenc(h)ow Brothers Burrows Chambers Clifton Cornwell Escott Fisher Foster Frost Giddins Groom Hardwick Harris Hart Hayho(e) Herman Holcomb(e) Holmes Hurley King-Spooner Martindale Mason Mitchell Murphy Neves Oakey Packman Palmer Peabody Pearce Pettit(t) Piper Pottenger Pound Purkis Rackliff(e) Richardson Scotford Sherman Sinden Snear Southam Spooner Stephenson Varing Weatherley Webb Whitney Wiles Wright

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #446 on: Sunday 05 March 23 16:46 GMT (UK) »
I recently came across someone with Spartacus as a middle name.
FreeBMD shows 3 people with it as a first name.
KENT:
Stutely - Wittersham & Stone
Padgham - Wittersham
Wanstall - Northbourne
Taylor - Ringwould & Ash
Skinner - Deal
Bushell - Walmer
Spain - Walmer
Also
Schloss - Poland, Nottingham, Massachusetts & New Zealand.
Cohen - Birmingham

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #447 on: Tuesday 21 November 23 10:44 GMT (UK) »
Looking at marriages today, I found a bride with the forename Fortune. Not too unusual, except her surname was Hunt. She married a William Nurse in 1778. Would have been more interesting she had married a Mr Teller !
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #448 on: Tuesday 21 November 23 11:55 GMT (UK) »
One of my ancestors married a man who had three christian names, the final one being "Posthumous". (The first two were "Horatio" and "Nelson").

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #449 on: Tuesday 21 November 23 12:38 GMT (UK) »
Makes them easier to trace though, such unusual forenames.

Such as a Nebuchadnezzar Smith. Or a Kerrenhappuch Smith. I have an ancestor sibling who wed Kerrenhappuch Prentice.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
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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