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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #432 on: Tuesday 10 January 23 08:52 GMT (UK) »
My great x10 grandfather Nebuchadnezzar Ashby is an interesting one. It's spelled differently every time it is found in the parish registers ... and the computer search tools do NOT recognise them as variant spellings!! What gets me is it's a biblical name. You'd think the clerks might just look in their books! I'm sure that it's never spelled "Nabugodanezer" in the bible ...

However, for the most amazing name ever, not a relative, but the man for whom my great x3 grandmother was a servant before she married my great x3 grandfather, I give you ....

MURFIN BLOTT!

(It's real ... he's buried in the same graveyard as my great x3 grandparents, and I occasionally visit his grave when I go to theirs. The Murfins and the Blotts were two of the great landholding families of 18th and 19th century Huntingdonshire so I'm guessing he was a scion of the union of both lines. I've never bothered to research him and find out, however ... )
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 #433 on: Friday 27 January 23 08:31 GMT (UK) »
In 1851 making her - yes listed as married woman - born c1825

Found Science Kearnsley in hospital accounts
Genealogy-Its a family thing

Paternal: Gibbins,McNamara, Jenkins, Schumann,  Inwood, Sheehan, Quinlan, Tierney, Cole

Maternal: Munn, Simpson , Brighton, Clayfield, Westmacott, Corbell, Hatherell, Blacksell/Blackstone, Boothey , Muirhead

Son: Bull, Kneebone, Lehmann, Cronin, Fowler, Yates, Biglands, Rix, Carpenter, Pethick, Carrick, Male, London, Jacka, Tilbrook, Scott, Hampshire, Buckley

Brickwalls-   Schumann, Simpson,Westmacott/Wennicot
Scott, Cronin
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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #434 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 
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 #435 on: Friday 10 February 23 16:40 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

BUT it might prove to be a good password in the future!  ;D

Poor child  :-X
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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #436 on: Friday 10 February 23 18:22 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

I so wish my James Smith (c1791-1849) ancestor had a middle name like Ringdingdiddyiddyumdumda.
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 #437 on: Friday 10 February 23 18:40 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: coombs on Friday 10 February 23 18:22 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

I so wish my James Smith (c1791-1849) ancestor had a middle name like Ringdingdiddyiddyumdumda.

You can't win them all!!!!   :-X
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
Kendall - WRY
Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY

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Re: Unusual First Names
« Reply #438 on: Friday 10 February 23 18:57 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: BumbleB on Friday 10 February 23 18:40 GMT (UK)
Quote from: coombs on Friday 10 February 23 18:22 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

I so wish my James Smith (c1791-1849) ancestor had a middle name like Ringdingdiddyiddyumdumda.

You can't win them all!!!!   :-X

True. He died in 1849 and said "Not born in county" in 1841. And he had the commonest surname in the UK.
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 #439 on: Friday 10 February 23 20:02 GMT (UK) »
It might not be helpful once ancestry transcribers had got their hands on it, the mind boggles what they would do with it  ;D


Quote from: coombs on Friday 10 February 23 18:22 GMT (UK)

I so wish my James Smith (c1791-1849) ancestor had a middle name like Ringdingdiddyiddyumdumda.

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 #440 on: Friday 10 February 23 20:15 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: BumbleB on Friday 10 February 23 16:40 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

BUT it might prove to be a good password in the future!  ;D

Poor child  :-X

Perhaps a cousin of Rama-lama-lama-ding-dong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI7wMWM9IqQ

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