Genealogy Chat

Hi Alison, I am unique!!! With a name as long as mine what can you expect Anne-Marie Bainbridge. Good fun will try my husbands now. Anne-Marie

Hi Alison, I am unique!! With an irish forename and a scottish surname you would think other wise-but it's nice to know that I am the only Sinead Walkinshaw in the UK!!! Thanks for the site- it provides a bit of light relief from all the dates,parishes,parentage and brick walls!! Sinead

there are 17 using my maiden name and 4 using my married name.im as rare as a wombats wingnut!!!...lol

Thank god i got married, cos as April Brosnan my maiden name i am so unique i don't exist, i am as rare as a pixie or an elf, and there are only 5 of me married, and i am as rare as wombats wingnuts.

Try this, how many Tracey Smiths are there? I don't consider myself common though!

Great site! Five of me! I always thought I was unique until I started tracing my family tree! But how many of them were sadly named after Shirley Temple!!

I am unique, the only one. I tried my maiden name and there was 140. Ann Cooke surprised there were so few.

What are wombats wingnuts?

Hi Tracey; You know what a wombat is? (One of those odd looking things that dig horrendous burrows and, contrary to popular belief are not cuddly and do not roam our Aussie backyards!!) You know what a wing nut is? (One of those nuts with the sticky out bits on each side that make it soooooo much easier to loosen or tighten.) You ever seen one on a wombat or ever seen a wombat on a wingnut? It is like a wigwom for a horses bridle as my Nan used to say. A thingamegig or a whatsiehooover, doodad. It is a great phrase. Hope you are now enlightened! lol Sonja

Not as common as my hubby. 2384 for me under married name. 5781 David Thomas's. But under maiden name only 22 Margaret Brownlow's. Maggie

I too am unique for my married name and only 27 with maiden name, hubby is also unique how lucky can you girls get!!!!!

There are 1826 Bissetts, but only 7 Carol Bissetts I didnt bother searching the Carols, probably millions

i wont try my maiden name woods or chivers

Elton Were you named after Elton Hayes, the singer? I think he sang the Robin Hood theme tune - the one starring Richard Green. Really showing age now! :(( Sue

Well, hubby and I are in no way unique. Of Osbornes there are 25,143, Colemans 25,706, Dianas 43,016, and as for Johns 1,264,441. However with my Christian name and surnames combined things improve for me, 35 Diana Osbornes and 23 Diana Colemans, but John is still pretty common, 693!!

There are 17 of me in my married name and 24 in my maiden name. Surprising, I thought there would be a lot more. Even more surprising, tried using both my first names and both times, with married and maiden names - I don't exist! Feel really weird now, knowing I am sitting here but I am just a fig-leaf of my magination. Kathleen Patricia (Gannon)

There's 330 of me with maiden name and 48 with married name. Liz

to anne marie, did you know that harvey bainbridge was a member of the group hawkwind(if you are under 30 ask mum) and lives in devon. debbi

3 of my maiden surname. So that is Mum , Dad and who else ? So now I'm on a quest to find out who the other one was. About time I did my tree on my Dad's side, but he is Cypriot so its a lot harder.

I was the only Stephanie Donati!!! (maiden name) , but there are three other Stephanie Bland's (married name). Guess I should have kept the maiden name to stand out in a crowd!