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This must be one of the most unusual names I have ever come across as being a resident of Accrington

A marriage took place on 4th Nov 1880 at St James, Cannon Street, Accrington, Lancs. between

Alexander Constantine Liperindi Luders Goetshakoff Manchakoff Oloff Brounow Soukyponet Broughton - 24 Iron Moulder Bachelor of 50 King Street and
Margaret Rothwell - 24 Spinster of 3 Ellison Street

Groom's Father: John Broughton, Painter
Bride's Father: James Rothwell, Deceased,

where on earth did the father, John Broughton, get the idea to give his son those names? There MUST be a story there?

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Like you say, there has to be a story, behind that mouthful.

I wonder if the vicar got the bride to repeat them all, and in the right order?

Can't be any help, sorry, but did come across this.

All the surnames in Accrington, taken from the 1881 census.

Which is quite interesting, seeing all the names listed together.

All surnames in Accrington from the 1881 British Census | British Surnames, Surname Distribution and Surname Profiles

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Did his father manage a russian football team?

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Ya like the Beckhams naming their first child after Brooklyn the place he was conceived, its a good job me and the wife didn't take the route in naming our first, or every Saturday morning when my daughter arrives I'd be saying good morning back of a Vauxhall Victor:D

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I have a mate who believes he was conceived on the stairs. He used to call himself 'the child of the Immaculate Conception'

Back to the thread - I suggest Atarah emails the local Family History Society branch to ask if there is any member researching the Broughtons. He/she may come up with an explanantion. OK Atarah?

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:signntme:- It may a distant relative.

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Ancestry can nearly beat that, looking for a soldier who was supposed to be an Accrington man, came across a man name Littemess, opened the page. and his name was Septimus.
Retlaw.

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Liperindi: General Pavel Petrovich Liprandi, Crimean War commander
Pavel Liprandi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brounow: Baron Brunow/Brunnow, Russian ambassador before and after the Crimean War
Papers Past — Lyttelton Times — 1 Haratua 1858 — Miscellaneous.
Philipp von Brunnow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Soukyponet still defeating me!

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Bet he got some stick at school...!
Thought there might be a Russian connection on Alexander's mothers side but her surname was Ward....and he was born in 1856, Sue.
Looks like he had a brother called Adolphus and a sister? called Algo Vera. Plus some sisters with more "normal" names.

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Algo Vera?? Isn't that what you slap on your sunburn??

BTW Steve where did all this come from? Do you subscribe to an ancestry site??

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Sounds a bit Spanish to me.

Got that info from here:
http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/cgi/birthind.cgi

....and it's FREE!!!!

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I actually indexed this entry for the Lancashire BMD Project and at the time looked at the births of the other members of the family to see what other names they came up with. Always thought there was a story behind this but will never know.

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Silly me - of course!

I use FreeBMD, not used the Lancs one... BTW the link you posted did not work for me.

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Oh yeah, you're right! Think it's because I linked the "Broughton" births page and not the sites main page.

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More likely a girl...

Baby Name Guesser - the first name Algo - analysis of first names, popular boy and girl names, male names, female names

Algo in Spanish means "something".

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Atarah On 1st May, the speaker at the Hyndburn branch of the Family Hiostory Society is a Mrs Broughtoin, a formner registrar of BM&Ds. I suggest you drop them a line to bring this name to her notice. It may be that she is descended from your chap and knows summat about the reasons for the names.

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Looks like you missed one Steve, James Horsfold born 1847.

That makes five girls and three boys, from 1847 to 1863. Parents John Broughton and Elizabeth Ward, married St James's Accrington 1845.

I was wondering whether the name Algo for one of the girls might be a mistranscription of Alice or similar somewhere along the line?

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Alexander may have been ill at ease with his names, as he named his children:-
Mary Emma, James, Maggie, Hary and Ethel. I wonder if this is the same family as the one which started the plumbers merchants (?) in King St under the viaduct?
There was a James Broughton, a solicitor, who died in 1914 aged 56yrs.

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There was a girl who was a big mate of my first wife, they worked in the office at Shopfitters, she was called Perthia (not sure of the spelling here) and she hated it, she always said she would change her name by deed poll when she was old enough, not sure if she did or not

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In the Blackburn Standard edition of 23rd May 1891 is a story about Alexander. He had won a gold watch, value £5 in a competition run in the 'Ha'porth' magazine as the man with the most letters (22) in his name. Two witnesses who supported his application won £1 each. He was commonly known as 'Gortcha'

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Were you expecting Tatiana, Olga, Anastasia, Nicholas and Alexei, Bob?? ;)

There was a James Broughton born in 1858 in Accrington, mother's maiden name Walker. That was possibly the solicitor. Thought Broughton was quite a common Accy name.

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Now come on Bob. You know very well you can go much further back in Accrington with the history of the Broughton family - the old cloggers in Warner Street were of the same family as the Broughtons who were, up to fairly recently, both under the arches and at the top of Church Street with their plumbing businesses.(now site of The Pals medical centre). Until quite recently, Clitheroe Castle had a cloggers shop/contents on show, it was the actual one from Accrington! They were a very well known family having Aldermen, Mayors etc. amongst the family. One of them was also connected with the Lancashire Authors Association. A bit of delving will probably prove our "Gortcha" was of the same family.

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Where do you get 22 from Bob? The whole name has 88, Alexander Broughton only 17.

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Where do you get 88 and 17 from?

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Think there's been a misunderstanding here. I took it to mean the number of individual letters in the name, Bob obviously meant number of letters of the alphabet - no j, q, v or z.

Alexander Constantine Liperindi Luders Goetshakoff Manchakoff Oloff Brounow Soukyponet Broughton

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Even so, count up the number of individual letters in the name. I make it 87 for the full name and 18 for Alexander Broughton.

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You're right, it's 87. Should have gone to Specsavers.

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Good grief, you two, have you nothing better to do?(smilie)
Let's just agree there's a lot!

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Bob started it!!! see post 21. :p

And the answer, Gordon, is no I have nothing better to do at the moment, not fit enough to do the gardening sadly in all this lovely weather, more's the pity... :(

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Its a good job you don't live on Anglesey:D

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It's bitter cold out there Susie, leave the gardening.
My garage roof wants re-sealing but 'till the weather improves I think I'd rather count letters!

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Uncle Bob is an AGSOB. We've got to stick together!

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Well it's better than being an ASGOB I suppose - talking out of one's rear end!

My bro is too - an AGSOB I mean - but he would have been between you and Bob, having been born in 1950.

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So am I but if you're all sticky I'll not get too close!

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When I was delivering the Beers round Germany there was a Pub up Lüneburg way run by a couple of Sisters, now there old Dad must of been a right one for his Cars as the girls were called Porsche & Mercedes. :) (I kid you not, that's a true story that)

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I once met a bird called Mercedes in Rotterdam way back, thought i was stoned but she showed me her I.D.

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You lot should try being called Shanida

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It don't really suit a bloke shaz.:D

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Mercedes was the name of the daughter of one of the founders of the Mercedes Benz company

Mercedes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The History Behind The Mercedes-Benz Brand And The Three-Pointed Star | eMercedesBenz - The Unofficial Mercedes-Benz Weblog

"On June 23, 1902, ‘Mercédès’ was lodged as the trade name and this was legally registered on September 26. From June 1903, Emil Jellinek obtained permission to call himself Jellinek-Mercedes, commenting that “this is probably the first time a father has taken his daughter’s name.”

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I realise that this is a late response to the original post on this subject, but Alexander C L L G M O B S Broughton (all Russian general names) was my maternal great grandfather.

In Bob Dobsons post (no 10) he lists his children, my grandmother Ethel was the youngest of his children.

Am just starting researching family tree so any further information would be welcome.

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Margaret has resurrected a thread that hasn't appeared for over 2 years. I had forgotten about it. I shall PM her with some advice, which in short is -join the Lancashire Family History Society, even if for one year only. There is plenty of assistance to be had , esp if you live in NE Lancs......I cannot recall where I got the info about 'Gortcha' from.