Unusual first name?

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Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 1,315 Send Message	Joan	Report	16 Feb 2007 09:32
	Morning Nicky. Unusual yes. I have just googled it and came up with nothing. Do you have the name on a census ? Have you found it anywhere else ? Joan
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 180 Send Message	Nicky	Report	16 Feb 2007 09:36
	Morning everyone, Came across an unusual first name in my research yesterday (well to me anyway) and wondered if anyone else has the name LUSCEANOR in their tree and if so, do they know the origin of the name? Thanks
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 180 Send Message	Nicky	Report	16 Feb 2007 09:44
	Morning Joan, I tried googling it as well and nothing like you say. I found her on the IGI (spelt Lucina), but on Ancestry and BMD as Lusceanor Willsea NOYES. She was born in 1835 in Middx and married Nathaniel SIMMONDS in 1854 at St Pancras. I have yet to find her on the census. Nicky
Member Since: August 2004 Posts: 1,315 Send Message	Joan	Report	16 Feb 2007 09:48
	Found on 1881 RG11 84 47 34 spelt LUSCANNOR. Will look on 1871
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 180 Send Message	Nicky	Report	16 Feb 2007 09:49
	Joan, Just to update you, I found a Luscannor W Simmonds on the 1881 census, so obviously huge variations on the first name, but still no idea on origin. Nicky
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 6,440 Send Message	An Olde Crone	Report	16 Feb 2007 12:59
	Lucy Anna, surely? OC