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Most Uncommon First Names on your Tree

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Vicky

Vicky Report 2 Mar 2006 18:44

I've just remembered another - IGI has it transcribed as Alustay but its Elestay on her tombstone (born 1788) (from Northumberland in case you were wondering)

Deb ( Steel City)

Deb ( Steel City) Report 2 Mar 2006 18:41

LOL - should put together a baby name book with uncommon names only. OMG just found an Attilla (gent). wonder if he was the hun. PMSl

Scrummy

Scrummy Report 2 Mar 2006 18:39

how about Himalaya?

Vicky

Vicky Report 2 Mar 2006 18:31

I have a Lafayette, born in the USA in 1839. My most uncommon actually has to be Dorcas as I haven't any at all LOL [OH has one].

Babydoll

Babydoll Report 2 Mar 2006 18:23

i have a; DALLAS DENYA SHAWNE (FEMALE) MASON SHAI thats all i can think of at the mo.

brightonbellex

brightonbellex Report 2 Mar 2006 18:20

Curry and Valentine aahhh! generations of them! x

East Point

East Point Report 2 Mar 2006 18:05

My Great Aunt - her christian name was Volla.

Toothfairy

Toothfairy Report 2 Mar 2006 17:53

Cannish ( a gent) and Attainder (a lady) Hmmmmm. lol, Lou xxx

Mike

Mike Report 2 Mar 2006 17:38

I have several Newsham Susan

LindaG

LindaG Report 2 Mar 2006 17:38

Cecil - 2 of them both ladies! Sibbra, Sebbra, Zipporah, Zipnoah, Zippah - two ladies spelled with any letters the clerk could put together in the censuses! (I think Zipporah is correct, I believe it's biblical!) Linda

Christina

Christina Report 2 Mar 2006 17:33

Two female Welmouth/Wilmuth/Wilmotts (depending on who was doing the spelling. One male Sigebert/Sitabird(!!!). Goodness knows where those names came from.

Linda

Linda Report 2 Mar 2006 17:07

i've got an Ethelred (male)

Jen ~

Jen ~ Report 2 Mar 2006 17:05

Forgot to mention my French great grandfather, whom I have not been able to trace back further than 1861 yet, is called William Henry.........but, by all accounts and according to my father who was very insistant on it, his name was really Napoleon. Lin xx

Rachel

Rachel Report 2 Mar 2006 17:04

Abs?l?m, he's on the censuses as AbsAlAm, AbsOlOm, AbsAlEm and then he becomes Charles when his boy marries! I had one girl I thought was H Corance, turned out she was Florance, and badly written in the census.

Jen ~

Jen ~ Report 2 Mar 2006 17:01

Moses, Keziah, Augustus, Issiah, Isaac to name a few Lin xx

Manda

Manda Report 2 Mar 2006 16:59

Old bibical Names Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego :-)

Deb ( Steel City)

Deb ( Steel City) Report 2 Mar 2006 16:55

toss up whos ahead with the strangest names Lemon & Pink are winning so far although Lems' has three. LOL

PinkDiana

PinkDiana Report 2 Mar 2006 16:00

Garibaldi But there are 3 of them!!

Unknown

Unknown Report 2 Mar 2006 16:00

Tayphona Sandiland Fuffin

Ginny

Ginny Report 2 Mar 2006 16:00

Shadrach