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“Jemimah” Jennie Horton b 1811 Coshocton OH Married Joseph McNabb, son of Sarah Parrish and John McNabb.
Jemimah Ann Blocksom (Bloxom) b. 1803 Sussex Del. Married Joseph Abdill. Their son Aaron b.1836 Richland OH married the daughter of Jemimah and Joseph, Sarah McNabb b.1846 OH.
I’ve found conflicting records on Sarah Parrish and haven’t conclusively traced beyond her. Dead end on Joseph Abdill and Jemimah Blocksom, as far as tracing beyond them.
Jemimah Hortons father was Ezra Horton (or Thomas according to some trees), but I know nothing other than that on her line so far. One Tree also list her mother as Jane Butler. No verification.
Interesting that one tree lists Jemimah father as Thomas b.1787 VA, and his parents being the Ezra and another Jemimah.
MarcSnelling;37532 wrote: I suspect the same although I have never seen that surname in my tree or in associated families. Wirey I figured might be Wiley – which is a name in associated families. It seems unusual to give someone three surnames though.
DreamingHawk also mentions Mourning. The mother of Isabel (Wiley) Buck who married my Brower ancestor was Morning Wiley. Isabel’s first husband was Theron Buck. One of their sons was Oda Thuren Buck.
I had a call from an old friend who wanted help finding where his several greats grandad was buried. The first time I have run across this unusual first name. Therin Ellis b. abt 1790. There is also Nimrod Ellis and Willis Ellis creating documents in Person co at that time. These Ellis’ are closely intertwined with the Person/Durham co Parrish families.
Mark, is your Theron Buck in the same lines where Parrish shows in your DNA?
Rhoadie;32556 wrote: (I posted this in the historical forum, but I realize that it should go in this forum)
In my research I have come across very strange or unique sounding first names. Names such as Impure, and Errrrrrrrrrrra. I am researching my Native American roots going on Oral Tradition. Do these names have some sort of Native American meaning? They are from Bertie NC (Piney Woods, Indian Woods region). The one named “Errrrrrrrra” went by Emma but my grandmother said that she was Native American and her name was very long and difficult to pronounce so everyone just called her Emma. I saw Errrrrrrrra on her son’s Marriage Certificate when it asked for him to name his parents.
could it have been Erma promounced like EARR-MA
my best girlfriend in high school who was spanish/ mexican / probably cherokee ( who went to mexico) last name GAMBOA and it was her year older sisters name. I have no idea where it came from .
now people called her UR-MA .
but it was really more like ear-r-mah is how her parents said it.
the south had some Spanish influences in the Creek and Choctaws and seminole. so maybe that is where we get some of those names like Saphronia. I posted about that name in Texas at Spanish Fort and on the Dawes rolls..
I was just thinking about how M can easy look like two or even three rr’s in cursive .
so Errra might be Erma and you have to really roll the R’s to say it right .
so if they were writing it like it sounded. they may have even written it like Errma and it looked like 5 r’s
just maybe you might want to check into that name.
let me know what you find.
Dreaminghawk;37671 wrote: I had a call from an old friend who wanted help finding where his several greats grandad was buried. The first time I have run across this unusual first name. Therin Ellis b. abt 1790. There is also Nimrod Ellis and Willis Ellis creating documents in Person co at that time. These Ellis’ are closely intertwined with the Person/Durham co Parrish families.
Mark, is your Theron Buck in the same lines where Parrish shows in your DNA?
Yes Theron Buck is from the same line as Parrish DNA cousins. I don’t believe he is a direct blood relative to me though, rather another spouse of my direct blood relative. Also there is one Parrish relative who has multiple sections of matching DNA that correspond to this line on my grandmother’s side – as well as another one on my grandfather’s side.
Just like certain common markers in DNA tie families and groups together, we can see that unique or uncommon names act as markers too. Sometimes they can give us a hint to look in a new direction. Many times an uncommon name may persist for many generations just the same as more common familial names persist.
I hear that. It’s been so much easier to trace my Coppock and Drybread ancestors as opposed to my Smith and Jones ones. Although the first name Massa made my Jones ancestor easier to find. Do you know if these Parrish’s have any connection to the Tutelo Buck’s? I believe Theron Buck to be from that group.
I haven’t done any research on the Parrish family, per se, only connections to other families but now you have my curiosity up. As I work on this Ellis family, I will follow any Parrish trails I find and maybe push them back into VA, see where they come from.
btw… locally, our Hawley family claims Tutelo heritage. They say their ancestors were Tutelo who resettled in New Jersey but remembered they were from piedmont NC so this extended family came back to southern Person Co,NC (late 1800s)and joined with my people. Would this have been part of the same Tutelo northern relocation your Bucks were a part of?
Here’s in interesting page. Move up and down the tree and see who siblings married, etc. The linked page has a Levin and a male version of Kaziah.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=scraigh&id=I18901
MarcSnelling;37217 wrote: Using names.whitepages.com and namestatistics.com you can gauge the uniqueness of a name. White Pages gives an overall rank for the name, lists the total number in the US and the Top States for each name.
Dora (male and female) and Seneca (male) are names common to several of my ancestors. These names from my family are not unique but relatively rare:
Dora (male) (common as female name but not for males)
Seneca (male) #6,621 (2261 in the US – highest in Wyoming)
Ballard (male) #10,090 (1224 in the US – highest in Kentucky)
Sonna (female) #15,037 (685 in the US – highest in Alaska)
Adelma (male) #23,786 (for females – much rarer as male name)
Parthena (female) #24,228 (344 in the US – highest in Connecticut)
Massa (female) #24,883 (331 in the US – highest in Alaska)
Zillah (female) #28,945 (266 in the US – highest in DC)
Thankful (female) #137,629 (30 in the US – highest in Delaware)
Fawcet (male) #499,005 (5 in the US – highest in Alaska)
Mehitable (female) #1,230,907 (2 in the US – 1 in VA, 1 in NC)
Mehitable must have been a more popular name at one point – there are at least 3 among my ancestors.
My grandfather and his best friend from high school named their first born children (middle name) after each other. His friend’s name was J. Not short for anything just J. This does not show up at all so may be unqiue. Although Johhny Cash’s real name was actually JR Cash – kind of the same thing.
I ran across the names of Thankful and Mehitable also in my lines that go back a ways. Im not sure of the history of them, but it does give an idea of a time frame they were used in.
Thankful Marchant b. 1745 Mass.
Mehitable Crowell b. 1653 Mass. her mother with same first name Mehitable Miller b.1638 Mass.
…speaking of unique names…the mother in law of Mehitable Miller is Elishua Yelverton b 1592..MA?
I ran across others with the same name of Thankful when I was going over records on these also.
Seperately, elsewhere in this same grouping of ancestors,
Abishai Marchant b.1650 Dukes Mass, second generation Marchant born in US (English grandfather), patriot, and
great grandfather of Thankful in above post.
Not only is his name unusual, according to “family data” who is seemingly only source of a MOTHERS name for him
( many other sources say mother unknown), appears to be “William Flower”.
A few trees have a mother name of Sara, no source.
Disregard patriot. I was looking at wrong person, and obviously year don’t fit. :rolleyes: My bad again.
That’s what I get when I have to many pages up at once jumping back and forth to compare info.
Got caught up in a lot of conflicting stories on this family, one does say Sara is from England,
if that’s his mom. Still he does have an unusual name.
Odd the conflits on who his mom is when it seems theres an explosion of information from this time period and area.
I had to do a whole separate search to find the Sarah possibility. Weird.
Some other names I’m trying to place from heavily mixed lines and Guion Miller applications:
Arcenia Jones (also recorded on census as Arcena, Arsena, Assenis, Arsenia)
Massa, Massalina
Zona, Zora
Zillah, Rosezillah
I do not think that my Isham is connected to Native American people. It is a maternal surname. I have many of them. The first appears (if the little green leaves of Ancestry is correct. My experience has been that they usually are.) to have been a captain in the Bermuda Hundred in Henrico County, VA.
Cindy
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