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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,386 Send Message	Granny	Report	21 Apr 2008 15:39
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,386 Send Message	whilst researching your tree. Yesterday I came across the forename HEPHZIBAH. I am presuming it is from the Bible. Granny
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,386 Send Message	Granny	Report	21 Apr 2008 15:41
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,386 Send Message	Yes I haven't come across that one before either, La Gooner.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,386 Send Message	Granny	Report	21 Apr 2008 15:48
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,386 Send Message	Well its different Brummie.
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 885 Send Message	Desperate Housewife ♥	Report	21 Apr 2008 15:50
	I have a Druletta, don't know the origins of that one. Karen x
Member Since: October 2004 Posts: 2,309 Send Message	Jen ~	Report	21 Apr 2008 15:58
	I have a male ancestor born in 1793 whose given name was Gripton. And the generation before another male ancestor named Cornish as a given name. Sadly I believe they may have both died as infants, as there is no trace of them after their baptisms, both at St Luke Old st. Finsbury.
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 1,057 Send Message	Christina	Report	21 Apr 2008 16:12
	we had a girl in our school last year whose middle name was Hephzibah so its still around chris x
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 6,309 Send Message	jgee	Report	21 Apr 2008 16:13
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 6,309 Send Message	my grandfather was called Abner never heard it before he was born in staffordshire
Member Since: July 2007 Posts: 179 Send Message	* Nikki *	Report	21 Apr 2008 16:16
Member Since: July 2007 Posts: 179 Send Message	I have a Moses, Abraham and Hiram all on one brance of my tree
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 13,143 Send Message	eRRolSheep	Report	21 Apr 2008 16:20
	Hephzibah was the wife of Hezekiah.
	Researching: Happy
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 3,637 Send Message	♥†۩ Carol Paine ۩†♥	Report	21 Apr 2008 16:21
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 3,637 Send Message	Well if you want some strange ones, how about these! Ezekial Tryphenia Philadelphia x 2 Jabez Limbrust Mahalie Lovenia Macklin Hezekiah x3 Bathsheba Albinia Rushmore Septima Vinah Lettitia x 3 You would think it would make my life easier, when doing look ups. lol Well it would if the dreaded people who gave the information, those that wrote them down & the people who transcribe the cencus knew how to pronounce/spell them & what was written!
Member Since: December 2003 Posts: 2,036 Send Message	Trish Devon	Report	21 Apr 2008 16:25
	Some good names listed here, although none of them in my tree, apart from a Parthenia,!!!!!!!!!!!! never heard of that one before.
	Researching: Webber,Strong. ( Watchet,Minehead,Somerset)Drake,(Plymouth Devon)
Member Since: August 2007 Posts: 13,276 Send Message	Lindsey*	Report	21 Apr 2008 16:35
	Amarantha and Theophila apparently greek muses !
	Researching: For better results please give all the details ,name, date place as you can {pictures by me }
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 938 Send Message	*Sharm	Report	21 Apr 2008 16:37
Member Since: March 2006 Posts: 938 Send Message	Some good names here, mmm let me think...i have Mary Elizabeth Ann William Sorry i do also have..... Ophelia Roxiana Paraysitis and Smith Anyone out there can you please help with baby boy names my daughter wants an unusual name for her baby due in september. Thankyou.
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 6,309 Send Message	jgee	Report	21 Apr 2008 16:47
Member Since: April 2005 Posts: 6,309 Send Message	merlin Ian Colin Ron
Member Since: August 2006 Posts: 3,929 Send Message	~~Posh~~	Report	21 Apr 2008 16:49
	I have a Yearley!!
	Researching: Hydes of Northern Ireland
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 49,504 Send Message	Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it	Report	21 Apr 2008 16:54
	I have :- Mynot, -male Hophnea. sometimes written as Hophni -male Philadelphia -female Linguard-male
	Researching: Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,386 Send Message	Granny	Report	21 Apr 2008 17:05
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 1,386 Send Message	So my Hephzibah is female, and I thought it was male. You live and learn. Glad my parents didn't find it before they had me Christened. Granny
Member Since: May 2005 Posts: 3,549 Send Message	Nolls from Harrogate	Report	21 Apr 2008 17:06
	I have a Turris Boyle.......well that's what it looks like! Norah
	Researching: Gilmour/McSherry/Boyle/Mason/Robertson
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 6,808 Send Message	Christine2	Report	21 Apr 2008 17:07
	I have a Vastina.
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 10,314 Send Message	Julie	Report	21 Apr 2008 17:09
	My Fave name I have come Across is my Great Grandfathers... He is: James Ezra Love.....maynot be unusual but there's something about it that makes me say it over n over....lol

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