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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #81 on: Thursday 17 March 16 23:17 GMT (UK) »
The surname OUTLAW .

Free BMD 1837-1976. Too numerous to count.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #82 on: Thursday 17 March 16 23:28 GMT (UK) »
Alois Fleischhacker -Anmeldestelle für Bestattung (not an ancestor, but a display in Austria)

Aloys(ius) Meat Hacker - notifying agency for funerals
Goldschmidt; Gregory, Maude, Nancy Price, Welby (UK),
Goldschmidt > Goldsmith, Benetta, Bloom, Gillis, McDonough, Moses, Wheaton (Australia / NZ),
Spatz & Henderson (Greater London),
Herbert Spatz MC > H. Spence MC (Salisbury),
Spatz > Spence, Nichols. Kidd (Bromley > Manchester South, India),
Spatz > Spaatz (Boyertown, PA - USA),
Engel & Joly (Philadelphia, PA - USA).
Kummerer (London, Chicago & Australia).

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #83 on: Sunday 20 March 16 16:24 GMT (UK) »
.....the first name: Danger

.....the surname: Twelves
England:  Archer, Bailey, Bates, Blower, Bosworth, Court, Hicklin, Orton, Palmer, Robbins, Sedgwick, Smith, Stevenson, Stone, Varnam, Wakelin, Walker
Canada:  Archer, Walker, Spencer, Shepherd
Australia:  Taplin
South Africa:  Risley

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #84 on: Wednesday 23 March 16 12:20 GMT (UK) »
I have just been doing some transcribing and came across LIEF HOFF

Poor bloke.

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Pike - Kent
Pay - Kent
Swan/Swaine - Herts / London
Bissenden - Kent
Chappell - Herts
Hammond - Essex


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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #85 on: Wednesday 23 March 16 13:18 GMT (UK) »
my Thompson family -  Mary Ann known as Polly had a daughter called Etheline -  fortunately the daughter's first name was Frances. Disappointingly the birth was registered as Frances Eveline

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSCV-GJJ
Bulman, DUR
Butterfield DUR & N. YKS,
Earnshaw DUR
Hopps DUR & N. YKS
Howe, Richardson,Thompson all DUR

William Thompson violin maker Bishop Auckland
William Thompson jun. Violin maker Leeds

Richardson in Bermondsey/East Ham, descendants of William Richardson b. 1820 Bishop Auckland

Berger, Fritsch, Ritschel, Pechanz, Funke, Endesfelder & others from Czechia

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #86 on: Wednesday 23 March 16 13:29 GMT (UK) »
Not a relation so far as I know:

Ethelbert Edar Helps born Wincanton 1873, died Farnworth 1942
Wainwright - Yorkshire
Whitney - Herefordshire
Watson -  Northamptonshire
Trant - Yorkshire
Helps - all
Needham - Derbyshire
Waterhouse - Derbyshire
Northing - all

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #87 on: Wednesday 23 March 16 18:51 GMT (UK) »
A solicitors partnership in Leamington Spa-   Wright Hassel.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #88 on: Thursday 31 March 16 13:38 BST (UK) »
I was researching for someone and found the name 'Crotchrode Whiffin'.

Sounds like something you get from sitting on a horse too long!
Lavender - Ruislip Middlesex / Mitcham Surrey
Ad(d)away - Burnham Buckinghamshire / Mitcham Surrey
Abrehart/Abrahart - Edmonton Middlesex / Mitcham Surrey / Victoria Australia
Lindsell - Braintree Essex / Morpeth Durham / Islington london
Donohoe/Donohue & Roche - Graiguecullen, Queens/Carlow Ireland

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #89 on: Thursday 31 March 16 14:00 BST (UK) »

From Texas US...parents James and Sarah [nee.. Stinson] named their daughter Ima HOGG

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