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Topic: Unfortunate surnames of the past (Read 13582 times)
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casram
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One of the nice things about living in North America is that no one thinks our surname - Ramsbottom - is odd or funny, in fact many people here comment on "your nice English surname"
Carolyn
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Oxfordshire - Broadist, May, Carpenter, Eden
Gloucestershire - Broddis, Deacon
London - Fox, Gill
Norfolk - Stebbings, Gore, Gotts
Berkshire- Haines, Kent, Booker, Noke, Norris
Yorkshire - Ramsbottom, Robinson, Dawson
Northamptonshire - Jones, Loak, Dent, Randall, Reynolds,
Ireland - Withers, Cassidy, Leahy, Sweeney
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howdee
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My surname is Nobbs, and I'm quite happy with it, my wife was brave enough to take it on. She comes from Sligo in Ireland, where the local solicitors are called. Argue & Fibbs. That figures.
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Gill, Owen, Barter, Griffin, Arnison, Langley-Hansler Nobbs, Hunt, Angel,
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Mogsmum
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My great-aunt would have done well to follow the maxim and 'think ahead', in that way she may not have had to live her life as Mrs. Fanny Shooter.
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WELCOME Meryll 
Wondered if I should really post this as is of the past (mine) but 'living'
Workmate some years back with the surname Orange named his son Justin
Often wonder how confident he is introducing himself or if he uses a '2nd' name instead
(I'll leave out all the puns  )
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RichardK
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My 8g grandfather was called Holiday Hickinbottom - and his son, my 7g grandfather, was Amor Hickinbottom.
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Kelly, Birkenhead & Co. Kildare
Marshall, Luton & area
Reid, Co. Kildare & Dublin
Cox, Barnack Northamptonshire
Edwards, Pagham, Sussex & area
Scott, Roxburghshire & Perthshire
Mitchell, Warwickshire
Savage, Hampshire
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behindthefrogs
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You need to be very careful about some of these old names. I had an American correspondent who some years ago was making great fun out of one of our common ancestors called "Bunbinge". I gather this is a litle ruder over there than we would expect.
However when I eventually found the original will I found this was a complete misinterpretationof the early handwritng and the name was actually "Bunting"
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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