100 remarkable names collected by researchers!
“There’s some raw work done at the baptismal font”, as Bertie Wooster observes. The silence of our searchroom is punctuated by the occasional titter, as transcribers from the Derbyshire Family History Society (http://www.dfhs.org.uk/) come across a real humdinger. Here are just a hundred examples they have collected over the years. Spotted any others? Add them at the bottom!
| Surname | Forename(s) | |
| ALLEN | Abednigo, Meshack & Shadrack | Brothers in the 1851 Ilkeston census |
| APESTAKE | Mary | |
| AUKLAND | Bilberry | Nottingham Road Cemetery |
| BACON | Booth | |
| BALDWIN | Fanny Cincinnatti | Ashover gravestone |
| BALL | Galfredo | Horsley Will |
| BARRER | Artemidorus | Derby burial |
| BLOWMILEY | Margery | 1543 will, Mellor |
| BRAY | Nero | |
| BUGGAN | Joco | |
| BUMPUS | Alfred Adolphus | |
| BUNGEY | Bertie | St Christopher’s Orphanage |
| CATT | Constance | Witness Little Eaton marriages |
| CHIPS | Charley | Married Dorothy Salt |
| CRACKLES | Prudence | Nottingham St Nicholas |
| CRULOFINO | Libers | Derby census |
| CUTLER | Winyfuit B | 1671 North Wingfield |
| DAFFIN | Abernatham | |
| DAFT | Daisy | Clay Cross |
| DAFT | Parkin | 1891 Census |
| DAWSON | High Abdullah | Foundling born 1825 |
| DAY | May | Chinley gravestone |
| DIEDAY | Lillie | 1881 census |
| DIZI | Virginie Louise | |
| DOXEY | Pharoah | Born 1863 |
| DUCK | Dorothy | 1847 marriage |
| EGG | Enoch | |
| EGGS | Julia | |
| FANCY | Crispin Blackburn | 1891 Long Eaton census |
| FLOPP | Lytitia | |
| FLUX | Emma Whitington | |
| FORTUNATA | Joseph Matrusedela | Organ grinder in 1901 Derby census |
| FRECKLETON | Love Satilla | |
| FROGGETT | Adonius | |
| GABBITAS | Restal | Sutton 1851 census |
| GASKIN | Cinderella | 1841 census |
| GILL | Farewell | Dore gravestone |
| GILL | Glossop | Dore gravestone |
| GRAY | Archibald Minimum | |
| HANDLEY | Herodisia | 1841 Makeney census |
| HAPPYLAND | Harry | 1871 Burton on trent census |
| HARRIS | Minotaur Beatrix | Born 1906 |
| HAYBALL | Daisy | G.R.O. index |
| HILL | Scythe | Baslow marriage |
| HOGKINSON | Tilpot | |
| HOLDEN | Ugabard Shuttleworth | |
| HOLEHOUSE | Handel | |
| HOLMES | Thomazine Thomasina Duntearfield | Born 1844 |
| HOPTRUFF | Harry | |
| JEBB | Pyarea | Darley Abbey Marriages |
| KREEGER | Scourath | 1851 Derby census |
| LADYBIRD | Abraham | |
| LANE | Trophimus | Tansley gravestone |
| LEMON | Lewis | |
| LINDSAY | Waterhouse Grymble | Ashbourne gravestone |
| LINNERY | Augustus Caesar | |
| LOYDON | Gamalice | IGI |
| LUCK | Nelly | |
| LYNE | Hannibal Lugg | G.R.O. index |
| LYON | Rhoda | |
| MACHIN | Urban Udall | |
| MERCER | Merrie Maurice | |
| MOFFAT | Adolphus Marvel | Eckington marriage |
| MOLALE | Louisa Selina Hannah Michelina | |
| MOUSLEY | Minnie | |
| MUGG | Efshoby Emma | Shardlow Baptism register c1830s (note at back dated 1908 re her old age pension) |
| NIX | Nellie | |
| NODDER | Bright | Ashover gravestone |
| OLIVER | Hector | Twin |
| OLIVER | Homer | Twin |
| OUCH | Hannah | |
| PETTICOAT | Daisy | |
| PINE-COFFIN | Major | Normanton barracks |
| PINKNEY | Appolonia | |
| PITCHFORK | Peter | Baslow marriage |
| PLUME | Fanny Nell | G.R.O. index |
| POD | Jeremyah | |
| POLLOCKSHIELDS | J | Swanwick Roll of Honour |
| PORTILLO | Robert Nemesis Juan de Paula | Born 1865 |
| PRONGER | Clifford | |
| RENCHER | Umpstead | |
| ROBERTS | Christmas Garibaldi | Born 1860 |
| RUSHITT | Rhoda | G.R.O. index |
| SARJANT | Samuel Crusha | 1871 Derby Census |
| SHIRT | Polly Esther | |
| SHORE | Offley Bohun Stovin Fairless | Stamford births |
| SNOWBALL | Minnie | 1871 Burton on trent census |
| STRANN | Flan | |
| SWASH | Barnaby | |
| THICKPENNY | Fanny | |
| THORPE | Zuba Caravelina | Born 1836 Shipley |
| TINKER | Tedbar | 1861 census |
| TITTERINGTON | Tarrat | Radbourne marriage |
| TRIPE | Linneus | G.R.O. index |
| TROKE | John Peace Inkerman | Nottingham Road Cemetery |
| WALLACE | Wedderburn Lamphier William | |
| WARDROBE | Percy | Hope gravestone |
| WATSON | Hugh Bong | |
| WRIGLEWOOD | Rickles | |
| ZAGGA | Rocchitellode | 1891 census |
I’m now very confused. I went onto this site last year saying that I had the Victory Medal for Urban Udall machin. A lady replied and I sent her the medal. I had assumed that it was you. Are there two Julies in the family? The address, to which I sent the medal, was in London.
was it Alison machin you sent it to
I have the Victory Medal for Urban Udall Machin (b 1889). He was killed in action 15 Apr 1917. Any family member please contact me.
my family has this name in it i been doing the family history and this name comes up all the way through
hi my dad was Reginald Udall machin my brother is Melvyn Udall machin my dad served in the Sherwood foresters im sure urban is in the wancourt cemetery france
killed in action
hello barnett urban udall machin is my mums uncle her dad was san udall machin there was lots of brothers ( prestwood ) archibald )lots more including my grandad sam they all shared the middle name udall that came from there grandmothers surname fanny udal married sam hilton machin they had 3 sons one was my great great grand father sam archibald and urban was both killed in action (sad times ) urban was in the shewood foresters
Had a note via Derbyshire Record Office. It was from you saying you now have the Victory Medal for Urban, that I sent to you a few months back. Enjoy.
i only just came up on this sight two days ago so maybe another family member cant see that tho my mum and her brother and sister are the only relatives still living :s i will mail them thank you barnett
I seem to remember my dads dad was prestwood was he a carpenter
Prestwood Udall Machin 18 Carpenter Nottinghamshire 1893 Nottingham Urban Udall Machin 21 Gas Office Clerk Nottinghamshire 1890 Nottingham Reginald E U Machin Birth 1916 Nottinghamshire my dad Reginald Ernest Udall machin Ilkeston derby Nottingham my mum Ida may machin {Newman} my father captured in Tobruk ww2
I’m hoping that Samuel Crusha Sarjant is a distant relative. He sounds like someone you’d like to have on your side.
Whilst doing research on the history of the textile industry in Ilkeston and Heanor in the 1980s, my colleagues and I held a competition to see who could find the most unusual male and female names. I won the female category, with Britannia Colclough, and the winning male name was Ulysses Poundall.
Nearly 60 years before the launch of the car, “Minnie Cooper” was signing the Newton Solney marriage register at her (?)brother’s wedding in 1903.