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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #369 on: Friday 02 December 16 04:06 GMT (UK) »
Two female first names with one example of each in my lines.

Loana only 15 on Free BMD. Most predominately in County Durham (3).

Mliss only 14 on Free BMD. Most predominately in (now) Greater London (3). 



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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #370 on: Friday 02 December 16 13:11 GMT (UK) »
I also found a child called Doctor.
Several babies baptised as "Silence" in same parish early 18thC.
Father & son with Mozart as 1st name in 19thC Lancashire.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #371 on: Friday 02 December 16 13:26 GMT (UK) »
Doctor or Doc fairly common in Southern States of America

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #372 on: Monday 05 December 16 12:11 GMT (UK) »
Just been listening to a podcast from the National Archives. Towards the end they mentioned several names which had caused them hassles when analysing data. There were a few military ones, such as Colonel Brook, who was only a private and Major Phillips, who was a Lance Corporal.

Richard & Elizabeth Holliday, of Grimsby, named their son, born 7 November 1900, "Christmas".

Thomas and Alice Day of Hoo, near Gravesend in Kent, managed to name their son, born 18 May 1899, "Time Of". On his transfer from the Royal Navy to the newly formed R.A.F., someone wrote on his record "Half past 2". His parents ran a pub - were they drunk at the time?
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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: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #373 on: Monday 05 December 16 14:08 GMT (UK) »
Oh, dear, some people are really mean to their children! Did poor old "Time of" introduce himself as Tim, I wonder?

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #374 on: Monday 05 December 16 23:34 GMT (UK) »
Heard on the radio this morning, parents named first child Mono, and second one Stereo. :'( :'( :'( :-[ :-[ :-[

Some people are cruel. >:( >:(

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #375 on: Tuesday 06 December 16 03:08 GMT (UK) »
Alas, these are not ones I have serendipitously found in my lineage...

Ellen U Bastard:- https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2XS7-CBN;
Brian Ugly Johnson:- https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVMZ-LQ4V
Samuel Smell Wiltshire:-https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGZJ-K9D
Captain Vomit:- https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KBMB-7Y7
Anita Arse:- https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWKN-RJD

burchnall peckover bonham families around Oxon & Northants villages near Banbury

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #376 on: Friday 09 December 16 13:56 GMT (UK) »

Was Cairn used as a forename Annie ? Cairn(s) was my maiden name many moons ago :-\

I love Caluna though it is very beautiful  :)

Sorry claire, missed this (don't get emails)...Cairn I've come across on 'Fancestry' as a forename (quite a few).

Another strange one;

GULIELMUS MCGRINE

Scottish Catholic Deaths (SP) 1861

Another more recent, know of someone forename Coral (beautiful) & Scottish

Annie


South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #377 on: Friday 09 December 16 14:03 GMT (UK) »
Heard on the radio this morning, parents named first child Mono, and second one Stereo. :'( :'( :'( :-[ :-[ 
I wonder if they got as far as Quadra ?
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