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What unusual Names have you found

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Julie

Julie Report 21 Apr 2008 17:34

I've come across a Dwayne Pipe....From Leak....bit of a drip by all accounts..!!

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!)

Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) Report 21 Apr 2008 17:34

I have a Titus as well! He was officially Edmund Titus but was known as Titus all his life apparently.

Urban - male name from Northants.

Then just the usual Mary, Thomas etc.

Researching:
London: Faber, Haysey, Spicer ...

Lindsey*

Lindsey* Report 21 Apr 2008 17:32

Looking through the Slave directories they have names like cabbage cabbage and onion onion .

Researching:
For better results please give all the details ,name, date place as you can {pictures by me }

Julia

Julia Report 21 Apr 2008 17:30

Hello Chrissie - my gt gran was called Vastine.
I also have a Kezia, Frank Greenall Bland, and a William College.
Julia

Researching:
Turner Cambs/.Northants, Singapore and Penang,Trengrove Singapore and Penang, Arnull (Champion Race Horse Breeders & Trainers 'Oleander')Germany and Denmark

Granny

Granny Report 21 Apr 2008 17:10

Yes that is nice Jules.

Well I have changed Hephizibah to a female in the tree. So sorry to have got it wrong.

Julie

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

Christine2

Christine2 Report 21 Apr 2008 17:07

I have a Vastina.

Nolls from Harrogate

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

Granny

Granny Report 21 Apr 2008 17:05

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

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

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

*~~*Posh*~~*

*~~*Posh*~~* Report 21 Apr 2008 16:49

I have a Yearley!!

Researching:
Hydes of Northern Ireland

jgee

jgee Report 21 Apr 2008 16:47

merlin
Ian
Colin
Ron

*Sharm

*Sharm Report 21 Apr 2008 16:37

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.

Lindsey*

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 }

Trish Devon

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)

♥†۩ Carol Paine ۩†♥

♥†۩ Carol Paine ۩†♥ Report 21 Apr 2008 16:21

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!

eRRolSheep

eRRolSheep Report 21 Apr 2008 16:20

Hephzibah was the wife of Hezekiah.

Researching:
Happy

* Nikki *

* Nikki * Report 21 Apr 2008 16:16

I have a Moses, Abraham and Hiram all on one brance of my tree

jgee

jgee Report 21 Apr 2008 16:13

my grandfather was called Abner

never heard it before he was born in staffordshire

Christina

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

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