Old English records yield trove of odd monickers

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at 14:43 on September 12, 2005, EST.

LONDON (AP) - Horatio Hornblower is an odd name, but consider his siblings: Azubia, Constantia, Jecoliah, Jedidah, Jerusha and Erastus.

Rene Jackaman, archive assistant at Cornwall County Record Office, found all those names after coming across a real-life namesake of C.S. Forester's fictional naval hero in county census records. The Hornblower name has been on record for centuries.

Inspired by that discovery, staff and researchers at the Cornwall Record Office compiled a list of more than 1,000 unusual names found in censuses, and births, deaths and marriage records going back as far as the 16th century.

"My all-time favourites are Abraham Thunderwolff and Freke Dorothy Fluck Lane," she said.

Other discoveries included.....

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