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Unusual Surnames

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Anna

Anna Report 30 Oct 2003 14:02

I have found a gt gt gt aunt a widow and the suname was Lampshin.I have looked on this site and see there are no other people with this name .On the IGI there are only four other people with this surname. At the other end of the scale,I have only one of the thousands of Smiths around!! I have 1 of 1 Umble on this site Anna

Andy

Andy Report 30 Oct 2003 14:51

I currently have a monopoly on the surname, STOALING, who I believe originate from Somerset. They're really only in my tree by marriage, so I don't have any current plans to branch off and look further back on that line. I also just discovered a George Tickle Brookhouse, the other day. I can only think that there was a previous ancestor, with the surname, Tickle!

Janet

Janet Report 30 Oct 2003 16:16

Goodness me, that name brings back memories. My mother took my grandmother, sister and me to the West Country to get away from the London bombs, and we were lodged with a Miss Stoaling. I think she lived in a hamlet called Street. I know her house was called Mill House. Jan

Andy

Andy Report 30 Oct 2003 16:37

Wow, didn't expect anyone to recognise the name, Stoaling. The place in Somerset where these Stoalings came from is a village called Wiveliscombe in the Vale of Taunton Deane, just south of Exmoor.

Janet

Janet Report 30 Oct 2003 18:18

I know we were staying near Taunton - but I was only about 3 so don't remember some details. Others I remember perfectly. I can still visualise the house, I think it was semi detached, because there was a front garden and a bit of side garden leading to a bank. There was no back garden. I climbed up the bank and grazed my arm on a piece of barbed wire. Six months later, a strange black spot appeared on my arm, and when my mother squeezed it a piece of rusty wire came out! And I suffered no ill effects from it, fortunately. So perhaps my Miss Stoaling was one of your relatives. Jan.