Genealogy Chat

Bev/Glen Your Biggerdikes must be a mis-transcription (or vice versa) of Bickerdike....I know of a family of that name. I'm so glad Glen added his family...2 laughs in 2 days! I don't think I've got anything too rare in my tree. Ordinary obviously! Mandy

It isn't Mandy! There are loads of Biggadik's (sorry ...dikes!) and on IGI !! Love that name! Bev x

I have Pinchback & Gritton. Don't know how rare they are as names, but mine are certainly ellusive!! My dad was in the Army during the war with a chap called Charlie Crackintackle, honest! although I have not found one on Ancestry yet. Jeanne

Ive got an Ogkell. Having major probs with it. And a Beardow. And a Gothard. < Thats not so rare now, as they had many children, who in turn had children.

I have the name Brundred on my tree. Not a lot of them on the census. Will look at that site to see status. jeanie A.

Surely Ogkell is a mangled up version of Oghill? OC

My Achyms, Plankeneys and Drinkmilks are all extinct now and if it wasn't for the prolific Edmund Skillings in eighteenth century Norfolk, that surname would have died out in the county.

Horsup. My paternal grandmother's name. The legend goes that the family was called Allsopp (The brewing family) When the Father died his two sons fell out and the one called Allsopp kept the brewery (and poss the trademark for IPA) and my lot became the poor ones. Allsopp was eventually merged with Ind Coope. However, they're a prolific lot and have populated the world. Did you know the leading expert on the Hairy Nosed Wombat is Alan Horsup.

Oh! and of course I am the only born and bred Tocqueville in the UK to still carry the name.

One of my work mates is a Hosiene. He has no idea though where the name originates Wilf

Forgot to say earlier that one of my Horsup's married a Paulston. Seems a reasonable name but they don't appear on either of those two websites.

Wilf Lots of names which begin with HOS- are portuguese or spanish in origin and would have been spelled JOS- in their native language. OC

Three names on my tree appear to be extinct now. They are GOODGAMES, ASHLER and HETLEY. They all seem to have had girls for a couple of generations - it doesn't take long for the name to get very uncommon and then die out completely. Anne

My grandmother's surname was Sanctuary. I am trying to trace her, she lived in Bingley and in Keighley in Yorkshire, and was born around 1892. I have found only a handful with that surname, is it one of the rarest?

I have a bickerdike in my tree, I also have a Joiles the only one on GR Linda

Frances Just did a quick google on the surname Sanctuary. Couldn't find out the origins, but there is a DNA project for this name, which suggests Nordic/Celtic origins. OC

the best surname I have come across is Younghusband which I thought was a strange name to be stuck with and I also have a Humpage in my tree which sounds like some minor ailment (apologies to any Humpages out there)

drinkmilk and goodgames-excellent surnames !

OC, I think youve got a point. Cannot find anything for Ogkell...had my suspicions about it.

My grandmothers maiden name was Hornadge. Her father changed the spelling from Hornage. As far as I know that spelling has died out in the UK. My Dad's cousin, who lives in Australia, believes that he is the last with that spelling, his children both being daughters. Neither spelling comes up on the spatial-literacy site although there is an 1881 map for an alternative spelling - Hornidge (still very rare).