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Offline BarryBear

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #36 on: Saturday 11 December 04 02:35 GMT (UK) »
I think my most unusual has to be, erm....mine :'(
Lawson in Durham and Croydon,
Corbett in Surrey,
Watts in Surrey and Croydon,
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #37 on: Friday 07 January 05 17:32 GMT (UK) »
I found a girl called "Turtle" today!!! Turtle Kittier married John Whicher

Imagine, Turtle Whicher, what a name!
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #38 on: Friday 07 January 05 18:46 GMT (UK) »
HOW ABOUT THIS NAME  EION ELIZABET CROFTS MARRIED A FLEMING,  TRY LIVING WIYH IT AND THEN THINK OF THE JOKES, DID MEET A CHAP ONCE CALLED JAMES BOND WE SAID SNAP. IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE NAME EION CAN FROM LET ME KNOW AS I CANNOT FIND IT ANYWHERE, AND AT 68 YEARS OLD I DO NOT THINK ITS FROM IAN FLEMING(JAMES BOND)  CHEERS EION FLEMING
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #39 on: Friday 07 January 05 22:05 GMT (UK) »
My Gran was called Asenath.  I haven't come across anyone else with the same name (yet!).

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #40 on: Friday 07 January 05 22:26 GMT (UK) »
While researching my Edg(e)ley branch I was getting a little bit confused with all the Johns, Jameses, Henrys and Williams, so I was quite pleased when I stumbled across a couple of relatives - brothers - born in the 1890s:

Adolphus Bertie Edgeley and  Major Gaskoin Edgeley

And again, siblings had normal names!!!  Makes you wonder what they were thinking!

Emma ;)
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #41 on: Saturday 08 January 05 00:05 GMT (UK) »
Has to be my Gt Gran, so far. She was Modhitt. The only other instances I have ever found are for her daughter Modhitt Vera May - always known as Vera and two nieces.

When I first started trawling graveyards - on my honeymoon, much to my wife's displeasure - I came across Eliza Body. It struck me as so funny I took a photo. Later I mentioned this to my Nan and she said "Oh yes, I knew her"!!

Most unfortunate name I have come across belongs to the three generations in Sheffield the most senior of whom was living at 90 Cricket Inn Road, Sheffield in the 1881 census ref RG11/4654 folio 62 page 32 with the other two generations at 21 Lovel Street, Brightside, Bierlow, Sheffield RG11/4663 folio 15 page 29. Check it out for a good giggle  :o
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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #42 on: Saturday 08 January 05 12:11 GMT (UK) »
Hi All,

Not sure which section this should be in - uncommon, unusal, funny!!

I have lots of "Florence" so why was I supprised to find this one!

Partington  Florence Nightingale    Barton I.  8c 586   

She looked a bit like a nurse as well although it didn't help as she died aged 21.  :'( :'(


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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #43 on: Saturday 08 January 05 12:36 GMT (UK) »
hi all

nice pretty picture, keith. I have just found a Wessell  and Ubsdale on the tree. Any clue as to where these names came from?

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Re: What is your most uncommon name?
« Reply #44 on: Saturday 08 January 05 13:18 GMT (UK) »
I Think I Have a Very Uncommon name .. I was Born  Iria louisa Slater in 1964 Liverpool.. I Still Haven't come across my name in England Yet even thought there are a Few In Italy... But My Parents have No Italian Conncetions.. My Sisters Names are Lynn and Ann.. I Often wonder why i was Given Such a Uncommon Name... When i was Little i always wanted to be Called Wendy..

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