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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #378 on: Friday 09 December 16 14:59 GMT (UK) »
Another strange one;

GULIELMUS MCGRINE

Scottish Catholic Deaths (SP) 1861

Another more recent, know of someone forename Coral (beautiful) & Scottish
Annie, there was a Coral in an English village where I used to live - neither beautiful nor Scottish!  She was thoroughly unpleasant, and unemployable for reasons I can't go into here.  I wouldn't have cared but she wanted to be known as Carol, and people often assumed I was her :o

It took me a while to figure out why some of the locals were a bit standoffish.  A pity, as Coral is a lovely name otherwise.

(And no doubt you already know that Gulielmus is the Latin for William.)

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #379 on: Friday 09 December 16 15:41 GMT (UK) »
Yesterday I found a " Equator Maria Oneida Brown"

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #380 on: Friday 09 December 16 20:22 GMT (UK) »
Was Equator born on board ship by any chance?
A marriage in Cockerham, Lancashire late 16th or 17thC. Bride was Sweetlips. She had another forename. I'd like to know if Sweetlips was a real name or a nickname. If anyone has her in their family tree, please tell me.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #381 on: Tuesday 13 December 16 15:14 GMT (UK) »
I once served with an airman called Prickhard (not Prichard). His parents named him Richard. So, of course he was known as Dick Prick Hard.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #382 on: Tuesday 13 December 16 15:31 GMT (UK) »
My partner has three sisters as ancestors, Faith, Hope and Charity.  They were triplets, but for many years I didn't realise that they were triplets.  I assumed they were successive births.  I often used to wonder, if the third one had been a boy if they could have ended up as Faith, Hope and Trevor, before finding out that they were triplets.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #383 on: Tuesday 13 December 16 15:47 GMT (UK) »
Another strange one;

GULIELMUS MCGRINE

Scottish Catholic Deaths (SP) 1861

Another more recent, know of someone forename Coral (beautiful) & Scottish
Annie, there was a Coral in an English village where I used to live - neither beautiful nor Scottish! 

(And no doubt you already know that Gulielmus is the Latin for William.)

Carol

Carol,

Sorry to have mislead you, the Coral I mentioned was born in Scotland, I didn't mean that it was a 'Scottish' name  :)

I can empathise with you on the mistaken identity scenario....

A friend of mine had a fairly unusual forename & there was another of the same forename who frequented same places as my friend.

However, said other was not too popular for different reasons which I won't mention but there were a few times my friend was mistaken as being the other presumably because only the forename was ever referred to, never a surname  ::)

I may also have mislead you on GULIELMUS MCGRINE as I was meaning it wouldn't be common for researching although it does have a nice ring to it.
I think the Catholic Register was a clue to being Latin  :)

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #384 on: Tuesday 13 December 16 16:51 GMT (UK) »
The following name belongs to very respectable looking lady in one of my family trees whose demeanour is quite at odds with her name, which is Miss Fanny Monger.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #385 on: Thursday 22 December 16 21:36 GMT (UK) »
my 5 x Great grandfather Loveless (Lovelefs) Moorcraft, 1751-1838

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #386 on: Tuesday 27 December 16 10:41 GMT (UK) »
My late wife's relative William Wingate married Fanny Pincher
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