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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #396 on: Friday 16 September 22 17:53 BST (UK) »
Just out of sheer curiosity, there is a widely repeated story, which may just be an urban myth, that a couple somewhere, somewhen, bestowed on their unfortunate offspring the names 'Depressed Cupboard Cheesecake'.

Does anyone know if this is true? And if so where and when?
Never trust anything you find online (especially submitted trees and transcriptions on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and other commercial web sites) unless it's an image of an original document - and even then be wary because errors can and do occur.

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #397 on: Friday 16 September 22 18:03 BST (UK) »
I have an ancestral line with this surname but don’t know if this youngster, age 9, is related to me :
English French, 1911 census in Waldron, Sussex with parents Harry and Fanny. 

Didn’t find a French English on FreeBMD!

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #398 on: Friday 16 September 22 22:42 BST (UK) »
Quote from: DianaCanada on Friday 16 September 22 18:03 BST (UK)
I have an ancestral line with this surname but don’t know if this youngster, age 9, is related to me :
English French, 1911 census in Waldron, Sussex with parents Harry and Fanny. 

Didn’t find a French English on FreeBMD!

Brith registered Sept 1/4 1901
FRENCH English
Uckfield (Sussex)
2b 122

 :)

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #399 on: Saturday 17 September 22 01:06 BST (UK) »
There was another English French registered in nearby Hailsham 9 years earlier.

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #400 on: Saturday 17 September 22 02:36 BST (UK) »
Quote from: DianaCanada on Saturday 17 September 22 01:06 BST (UK)
There was another English French registered in nearby Hailsham 9 years earlier.

Oh was there? I limited my searches for the one you mentioned. The families must have both had the same idea.

No matter how unusual the name there are often others.  :)

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #401 on: Saturday 17 September 22 09:45 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Ruskie on Saturday 17 September 22 02:36 BST (UK)
Quote from: DianaCanada on Saturday 17 September 22 01:06 BST (UK)
There was another English French registered in nearby Hailsham 9 years earlier.

Oh was there? I limited my searches for the one you mentioned. The families must have both had the same idea.

No matter how unusual the name there are often others.  :)

Haven’t looked into it, but possibly they were related.  The earlier English’s father was Samson, quite unusual in itself!  And my mistake - he was born 19 years earlier, not 9.
The 1871 lists another English French, age 9, b. Bexhill, living in Heathfield, Sussex.  He does not seem to be registered though.

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #402 on: Tuesday 27 September 22 00:08 BST (UK) »
The most unusual for me:

Mehetabella
Brewer (first name!)
Tieleman
Quinrinus
Melchisedech
Good (first name from the Puritan era)
Atlas
Willia
Jone
Gratia
Mathurin (French Huguenot)
Dudley (first name)
Turlogh
Giolla
Deopham
Cardrutt
Anisia
Laurencia
Virtue
Urian
Mabelia
Jerman
Bezallel
Zerubbabel
Ireland: Collins, Shinnick, Mahony, Fitzpatrick, Deady, Leary, Murphy, Carroll, Brien, McCarthy

England (Romany): Ellis, Young, Smith, Knight, Lanskford, Davey, Boswell, Throughgood, Cocket, Tolley, Lovell, Harris, Brown

Scotland: McGhie, Laurie, Douglass, Alston, Calderhead, Weir, Mcashlan

France: Dulieu, Rouviere, Correge, Chauderon, Tixier, Gilbert, Perrot, Galipeau, Besnard

Germany & Holland: Van Slyk, Van Vranken, Hansz, Kernin, Ohrendorff, Peltzer, Heyn, Getman

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #403 on: Tuesday 27 September 22 00:14 BST (UK) »
Beyond,

Some of yours sound like characters from Harry Potter.  :)

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #404 on: Tuesday 27 September 22 00:17 BST (UK) »
I came across this name yesterday  -  Mangeline, affectionately shortened to Mangy.
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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