A good name for a woman:

[Phoenix]

Bartlett Amy!

Bartlett seems to be in use as a girl's name in Dorset, and Amy is a genuine surname, but it is clearly puzzling the researchers!

Anyone else got some wierd ones?

[ElizabethHerts]

I've got a Battey Parrott (male) in my tree! Battey was the surname of the lad's grandmother. I don't think he made it to adulthood, though.

[Lindsay]

I've got a Gurney Edmonds (also didn't make it to adulthood).

And I'm particularly fond of Mills Fluce. I'm not sure how (or if) he fits in my tree, but I traced him because the name was so easy to follow.

[Olde Crone]

*smirks modestly*

Fish Fish Fish.

OC

[Phoenix]

*realises when she is beaten, & slinks off thread *

[marquette]

Originally Posted by Olde Crone

*smirks modestly*

Fish Fish Fish.

OC

Why ?

Someone's idea of funny ? cute ? punishing ?


Exton Cole (b1750), most often mistranscribed as Emma. Married Thomas Banton to become Exton Banton !

Cubitt Brazill (b1796) he's male, though

and

Farmborough Collis (b1726) disinherited by his father for wilful disobedience !

Di

[Mary from Italy]

The one in my BiL's tree that always confuses transcribers is a man with the Christian name of Mister.

[Mary from Italy]

And I've always been fond of Quita Day.

[Langley Vale Sue]

Waster Sanborn!

Although I think he was actually Worster or Worcester!

[Jill]

Hopestill Roots (my husband's 4x great grandmother) and on my side Steeprock Bannister and Quick Nutter.

Steeprock's father named another son Cicero, and another after the vicar of Trawden Thomas Craven Humfrey. It seems that the original Steeprock was a native American runner who ran a number of races and toured the UK when Hartley was a boy.