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Re: Most Unusual/Unique names you have found in your research
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 16 May 15 08:58 BST (UK) »
Melesina Tidd; my gt gt grannie's sister.

Bradbury (Sedgeley, Bilston, Warrington)
Cooper (Sedgeley, Bilston)
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Re: Most Unusual/Unique names you have found in your research
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 16 May 15 09:14 BST (UK) »
Philadelphia Naldrett .... c1760, Sussex

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Re: Most Unusual/Unique names you have found in your research
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 16 May 15 10:04 BST (UK) »
I have an affection for "Bathia", don't know why!

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Re: Most Unusual/Unique names you have found in your research
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 16 May 15 10:47 BST (UK) »
In my family tree;
Three sons with first names;
Barnabus Joshua Sydney
Percy Herbert Benoni
Stanley Tertius Benoni
Joe

Gill UK and Australia
Bell UK and Australia
Harding(e) Australia
Finch UK and Australia

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Re: Most Unusual/Unique names you have found in your research
« Reply #13 on: Saturday 16 May 15 12:05 BST (UK) »
I was intrigued with this middle name:   

"Elizabeth Flowerdew Harrison" when I first came across her and thought her parents must have had some sort of romantic notions.  Although I've not yet come across it in my family tree research I have seen that it was/is a proper surname.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: Most Unusual/Unique names you have found in your research
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 16 May 15 12:24 BST (UK) »
Great help for me starting off researching my Mum's family, her name Was Jessie McMillan Mason
McAughtrie. Her Mum Elizabeth BOYD Walker Watson. Her Dad Robert Houston McAughtrie, and her sister Mary Houston McAughtrie. 

All on Mum and Dad's Marriage cert!  Extra names of her parents and sister were all noted on the back, as well as those of my Dad's extras!

What a lucky lass I Was to have all that to start off with, along with other papers in my Grandmothers little box of treasure that I found when she died!  She even had my Dad's birth cert!
Written on the back of her own birth certificate was the marriage date and place of her parents marriage too!  All of which gave me a wonderful start!

Not wonderfully unique names, but I often wonder how long it would have taken me to get those three generations!

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Re: Most Unusual/Unique names you have found in your research
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 16 May 15 19:23 BST (UK) »

I have a 3xgrand aunt who married a Winter Frost, who had a son called Winter Frost
I wonder if that marriage had a chill to it? lol

Also found an Esaisus who it is sometimes written as Ozias.

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Re: Most Unusual/Unique names you have found in your research
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 17 May 15 12:23 BST (UK) »
HI,

Here are a couple from the baptisms at St James church in Abinger:

1785 January 18th, Thos Merryweather, a foundling.
1785 May 12th, A Foundling Infant whimsically named Warley Heath.

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Maurice
Marchant, Grout, Worsfold, Woolgar all from Surrey.
Marchant in New Zealand.

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Re: Most Unusual/Unique names you have found in your research
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 17 May 15 13:56 BST (UK) »
There's a Prince Snow is my family tree  ;D

However, my favourites are-
Oughtsorengoughton ('he passes through the year' baptised as Timothy)
Tookanowras ('he splits the door' baptised as Silas) with a daughter-
   Kaniaronkas ('she gathers snakes')
Away sorting out DNA matches... I may be gone for some time many years!