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Offline andrewalston

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #162 on: Sunday 08 May 16 19:11 BST (UK) »
Quote from: hurworth on Wednesday 04 May 16 13:35 BST (UK)
We have a Hannah Fluck in one tree - she died in Allegany, Maryland.  I was pleased to discover that Fluck was her surname from her first marriage and that her maiden name was Phillips.  Fluck would be an easier name to research though.
Wasn't Diana Dors born a Fluck?
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 #163 on: Monday 09 May 16 12:06 BST (UK) »
Yes, and John Wayne's middle name was Marion, if I recall correctly.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #164 on: Monday 09 May 16 12:11 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Geordie daughter on Monday 09 May 16 12:06 BST (UK)
Yes, and John Wayne's middle name was Marion, if I recall correctly.
I think his real name was Marion Morrison. John Wayne was his stage name.
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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #165 on: Monday 09 May 16 12:29 BST (UK) »
Knew it was something like that! I was too lazy to go and look it up. Can you imagine lumbering your son with a name like Marion in this day and age? Shirley was another name that was also given to boys, back in the day.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #166 on: Monday 09 May 16 12:37 BST (UK) »

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #167 on: Tuesday 10 May 16 02:38 BST (UK) »
Sept 1866 Ann Tomalin married  Albert Land Newdick
Allen(Dorset),Barker(Essex), Batham, Burris, Champelovier(London, Clark (Suffolk), Clay (London), Elliott (Wilts), Faith (Sussex), Hawes (London), Heinemann (Germany),  Hussey (Dorset), Mason (London), Myers (Yorks/Lancs), Parker (Yorks), Phillips(Hamps),  Smith,(Wilts) Wingate (Sussex) , Wiseman, Townson Yorks), Want(Wilts) and more

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #168 on: Tuesday 10 May 16 11:31 BST (UK) »
Whilst searching for a marriage in the LMA collection yesterday found a marriage of a Miss Bareleggs ::) to a Mr Pilcherly

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #169 on: Tuesday 10 May 16 12:09 BST (UK) »
Quote from: andrewalston on Sunday 08 May 16 19:11 BST (UK)
Wasn't Diana Dors born a Fluck?

You are correct, but I did have to look it up.

Nevertheless I had not expected to find this ancestor buried in Maryland, but she followed a couple of her sons from the Forest of Dean to Maryland.  They arrived just in time for the civil war which may or may not explain why her granddaughter emigrated to the Antipodes instead.

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Re: What's the oddest name you've found?
« Reply #170 on: Tuesday 10 May 16 12:34 BST (UK) »
Quote from: usaPetticrew on Wednesday 04 May 16 12:47 BST (UK)
Syrsigumbus or Cisigambus.  A girl's name, mid-1800s.

 ;D Sounds like a disease  :o  ::)

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