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Re: least common surname
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 18 May 05 04:28 BST (UK) »
Noticed two flying past the spoor I was tracking,glad they aren't mine!!!
Stirzacker+Matterface.
Anyone got them?
                      Cheers,Goggy. ::)

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Re: least common surname
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 18 May 05 17:14 BST (UK) »
Cheers Debbie, that was an interesting site!

Regards.

Ryan.

:)
HILL/BURKE/BELCHER/BIGNELL/BADHAM/COX/BLAKE/YELDHAM in London
HOPKINS/HART/MATTHEWS/MUNSON/FARLEY in Exeter & Mid Devon
FEREDAY in The Potteries & Tipton
ADAMS/MUSCUTT/ELSBY/BRIDGENS/BURKE/BELL/RAINBOW in The Potteries
O’CALLAGHAN/O’BRIEN in Cork
BURKE/FITZPATRICK in Birmingham
HOPKINS in Shaftesbury
YELDHAM/RAVEN/MUNSON/BIGNELL in Essex
BLAKE/CHANDLER in Wickham Market, Suffolk

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Re: least common surname
« Reply #11 on: Friday 20 May 05 08:57 BST (UK) »
I have a single DARRETS from the 1871 census - born Co Meath, Ireland and living in Liverpool. I can't find any english-speaking people of the name - the only people with the name spelled this way seem to come from south-west France!
Looking at ALSTON in south Ribble area, ALSTEAD and DONBAVAND/DUNBABIN etc. everywhere, HOWCROFT and MARSH in Bolton and Westhoughton, PICKERING in the Whitehaven area.

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Re: least common surname
« Reply #12 on: Friday 20 May 05 17:44 BST (UK) »

  I have Incher in my family.

        Tried it in Google search bar, suppose you can imagine
some of the things it came up with.

                        Jacquelineve.
Dudley Worcs:Ellis Durkin Oakley Rich Smith
Baggot Saunders Turner Williams Hobbs
Harts Hill: Baggot Wright

Tipton:Whitehouse (boatman) Timmins
Yorkshire:Littlewood Wilcockson
Derbyshire:Wilcockson

Derby Belper:Spencer
Herefordshire Brampton Bryan:-Turner

Worcs. Hereford. Gloucs.
Hodgetts




Radnorshire: Meredith
Bristol Somerset: Box

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Re: least common surname
« Reply #13 on: Friday 20 May 05 19:19 BST (UK) »
In my own direct line, Hagar and Onions are the least common, although not as rare as some already mentioned.  I've just discovered a Munger for one of my cousins - never come across that before.  But I nominate one of my husband's multi-ggrandfathers for the "hardest-to-fit-in-a-tax-return-form" category:  Abraham Grand-Guillaume-Perrenoud-dit-le-Corbe!  :o

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ANT: Nesbit, Potts; CHS: Gosling (Hazel Grove/Lymm), Hinton (Lymm), Johnson (Hazel Grove), Marsland (Hazel Grove), Massey (Daresbury), Sorton (Warmingham); LAN: Jackson, James, Potts (Manchester/Salford); MAY: Caulfield, Griffin (Leveelick); SAL: Goodwin, Johnson (Bridgnorth), Gregory (Wellington); STS: Goodwin, Gregory, Johnson (Wolverhampton); Hallett (Trysull); SOM: Dowding, James, Jones (Bath)

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Re: least common surname
« Reply #14 on: Friday 20 May 05 20:07 BST (UK) »
Well that certainly ends that thread then!
Nobody could possibly beat that.
A handle to be proud of indeed.

Oh incidently i know a Sam Matterface.
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