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Nor do I remember seeing anything like those when trawling Quaker records......They just have ordinary names (Mary William etc) with a smattering of Old Testament ones...Job, Joseph etc Merry

Well I have dozens and dozens and dozens of Quakers on my tree and have never heard of any of those names! Merry

I've just had a look at my Concordance, which is an index to the St. James (C of E) Bible, but none of the names appear in the Bible, at least with those spellings. If they're Quaker names, I wonder where they come from? I'll ask a Quaker acquaintance if she has any idea.

they had seperate burial grounds aswell

Thanks Alter! I had discounted that as a possibility because of finding the family's marriages/baptisms etc in Anglican records. But I do believe other families with this surname were Quakers back in Derbyshire, where they originated, so I will look into that.

Quaker springs to mind.

I've just come across these, as siblings of my ancestor, who has the more ordinary name of Joseph. Another brother is called Habbakuk (I know this is biblical). Parents are Esther & Isaac. Curshon is male; Betheris & Paron are female. Curshon is on the IGI & also on a transcript done by the local FHS so I am reasonably confident about the spelling. Paron is a friend's best guess for a baptism from the original parish register, and also appears on a burial transcribed by the local FHS. Betheris appears on the IGI but I have found no close matches anywhere else. We are talking late 18th century Staffordshire. The family are English, and not Jewish or any other persuasion as far as I know. They may be non-conformist, though were married in Anglican churches. Any ideas anyone?

Any ideas about their origin? see below for more details