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Offline hurworth

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #333 on: Wednesday 14 September 16 07:44 BST (UK) »
Omar Pasha Sykes' daughter was the father-in-law of a distant cousin of mine.   I was sure there must be a transcription error but that really was his name.   He lived in Armley, near Leeds.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #334 on: Wednesday 14 September 16 07:59 BST (UK) »
My aunt was investigating the history of her building which used to be the mortuary keepers cottage adjacent to the coroners court on Lower Holloway.

In the 1881 census the mortuary keeper was Robert Head who had a son named ... Richard!! :o
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #335 on: Wednesday 14 September 16 08:41 BST (UK) »

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #336 on: Thursday 15 September 16 01:03 BST (UK) »
Quote from: mirl on Wednesday 14 September 16 07:59 BST (UK)
My aunt was investigating the history of her building which used to be the mortuary keepers cottage adjacent to the coroners court on Lower Holloway.

In the 1881 census the mortuary keeper was Robert Head who had a son named ... Richard!! :o

Many years ago I worked with a supervisor with the name of... Richard Woodcock

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #337 on: Thursday 15 September 16 04:11 BST (UK) »
Elsie MLISA Routledge born 14 Sep 1887, Chilton, County Durham.

I can only find 2 other Mlisa births on Free BMD.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #338 on: Thursday 15 September 16 05:03 BST (UK) »
Have you tried with spelling of Melissa? 

Phonetically, Melissa is almost always pronounced as Mlisa, so it could have been written down with it's phonetic pronunciation.  I've never heard anyone say Meelisa 😄
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #339 on: Thursday 15 September 16 07:45 BST (UK) »
My 4x great-grandfather's first name is Clever.   :-X

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #340 on: Thursday 15 September 16 12:54 BST (UK) »
The name's not unusual on this one, as such, but...
"James (so named by mistake of the Good Women) the daughter of Hugh and Frances Muxworthy, privately baptised July 16th 1764 [Goodleigh]."
It must have caused no end of confusion explaining her name to other people! I wonder if the family called her Jane or something similar as she got older?

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #341 on: Thursday 15 September 16 13:41 BST (UK) »
I know/knew a couple who have a son named after the whole of the Glasgow Rangers Football Team at the time.

The mother is actually a cousin of my daughter's father.

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