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in reply to a message by familymystery
Hmm .. I think I'd have gone the Arthur route too, if I had a name like that!
My guess is that great-great-granny had been reading a novel set in the Wild West or the American frontier (not Last of the Mohicans but that kind of thing) and took the names from there.
I'd love to know what Aunty Equrk called herself!
My guess is that great-great-granny had been reading a novel set in the Wild West or the American frontier (not Last of the Mohicans but that kind of thing) and took the names from there.
I'd love to know what Aunty Equrk called herself!
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hello
apparently Equrk called herself Euey (not sure that's how you spell it, but pronounced You-ee)
current speculation is that the names are eskimo from a now out-of-print book - so you're not far off! well done! but it's very out of the blue as most of my relations at that time couldn't read and were living in a small town in south of the UK. funny...
thanks for your help
emma
apparently Equrk called herself Euey (not sure that's how you spell it, but pronounced You-ee)
current speculation is that the names are eskimo from a now out-of-print book - so you're not far off! well done! but it's very out of the blue as most of my relations at that time couldn't read and were living in a small town in south of the UK. funny...
thanks for your help
emma
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