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From: "Paul Vivash" <>
Subject: Re: 50 rarest surnames in Britain today
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:35:52 +0400


Hi All!

Further to Roy's mail, I feel that such a list is meaningless because if I
wanted to take first prize I should just just, for example, change my name
to "ZYXWVUTSRQ" on the basis that "ABCDEFGHIJ" may well already have been
taken.

Cheers from Oman

Paul

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----- Original Message -----
From: Roy Stockdill <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 3:03 AM
Subject: 50 rarest surnames in Britain today

COULD you tell us the authority for this list, please? I ran every single
name through the UK Phone Disc and the vast majority of them had 20, 30 or
40 more entries. I don't call that rare! Only two had fewer entries than
Stockdill (only 10 entries on the phone disc), the rest far more. So why
isn't my name on the list???!

Roy Stockdill
Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies
The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS)
STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP
GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North & West
Ridings
MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire
Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:-
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock
"Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you.
If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and
humorist 1771-1845)

>>Francesca Braham wrote:

> Here they are, permission granted to jump for joy if one of "yours" is
> included ... the 50 rarest surnames in Britain today.
>
> Angelo
> Boulstridge
> Bungard
> Bursnell
> Cabrera
> Chaisty
> Clayworth
> Denial
> Dissanayake
> Domville
> Dua
> Edeson
> Garrott
> Gaspar
> Gauge
> Gelson
> Happer
> Hawa
> Helling
> Hollingberry
> Howsham
> Husher
> Huth
> Khambhaita
> Kinlan
> Le Feuvre
> Leatherby
> Lowsley
> Mardling
> McCart
> McCalman
> McKiddie
> McQuillen
> Meath
> Mustow
> Nana
> Pepall
> Perdue
> Ravensdale
> Rukin
> Selvaratnam
> Shelsher
> Silsbury
> Southway
> Upadhyay
> Valji
> Virji
> Wadd
> Weild
> Witte
>
> I hope this has made a few people happy! Sorry about the delay - we got
> food poisoning at this wedding and it has made me feel really washed out
-
> that and hte heatwave we are having at the moment!
>
> Francesca
> WOODROW one name study
> Also collecting all references to Elnaugh, Elner and all variants
worldwide
> (and I thought that was a pretty rare surname!).
>

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