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bubs
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My hubbies Gran new a girl by the name of Nora lamb
She married a guy by the name of Bone
dont know if she used norah lamb bone
or norah bone
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stockman fred
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I was looking round Bosham church with some mates when we spied on a gravestone "Eliza Nutter." We weren't sure if it was a name or a statement?
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ali607
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Well Iv been researching my Woodcock family and way way back found siblings called Fanny and Willy Woodcock!!!
Sorry...it made me laugh!
Alison
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Surname interests:
Salter, Fulford, Woodcock, Finney, Tissington, Driscoll, Shea, Maxfield, Collier, Hughes, Williams, Petty, Pearson, Prescott, Baldwin,
Area interests:
West Riding Yorkshire: Rotherham, Hemsworth, Darfield, Sheffield
Worcestershire/Staffordshire: Oldbury, West Bromwich, Halesowen, White Heath
Lancashire: Wigan, Aspull,
Nottinghamshire: Worksop
erbyshire:alfreton, ironville, codnor
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organicgardener
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not just in the past either, there was a group of doctors here called Clap, Crap and Whistle. My ancestors are Onions or is that O'Nions like Sidebottom pronounced Sid-e- bottem ! Chris
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ali607
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i know some O'Niens' and Sidebottoms....and i heard the other day of a family called Ness (im in Scotland) and they have two boys -they were signing up for a football club and they had to put their initials - one of the other mums noticed that they had written A Ness and P Ness!!!
What stupid parents - how can u call your kids that!
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Surname interests:
Salter, Fulford, Woodcock, Finney, Tissington, Driscoll, Shea, Maxfield, Collier, Hughes, Williams, Petty, Pearson, Prescott, Baldwin,
Area interests:
West Riding Yorkshire: Rotherham, Hemsworth, Darfield, Sheffield
Worcestershire/Staffordshire: Oldbury, West Bromwich, Halesowen, White Heath
Lancashire: Wigan, Aspull,
Nottinghamshire: Worksop
erbyshire:alfreton, ironville, codnor
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organicgardener
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worse then that our neighbours were called Case guess what they called their son Justin !!
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Sandra Parker
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not just in the past either, there was a group of doctors here called Clap, Crap and Whistle. My ancestors are Onions or is that O'Nions like Sidebottom pronounced Sid-e- bottem ! Chris
Hi Chris,
You didn't happen to have a Louie Onion in your tree. She married (or maybe not) my GUncle Fred, whose name was really Edwin, Barton born around 1882 in Suffolk, only son of George Henry Barton and Mary Ann Peill.
Fred Barton's wife was always referred to as Louie Onion, by his family. There were no known children. Don't have any other dates, although she was certainly around in the early 1940's.
Thanks
Sandra
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London: Bradford, Van der Velden, Peill, Harris
Norfolk: Chilvers, Sparkes
IOW: Barton, Please, Shiner
Cheshire: Parker. Bradley, Hooley
Staffordshire: Buckley, Hargreaves
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organicgardener
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Hi Sandra there was a Louisa (nee stanton) married Joseph Onions but mine all came from Walsall, it was only my Grandad Alfred Onions that came to live in Warrington. They still call ny mum Elsie Onions even after 60 years. Chris.
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Sandra Parker
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Oh well, thanks just the same, Chris. Worth a shot. Onions is hardly 'Smith of the south' is it? The only reference I have, is a possible birth in Cheltenham, Sept Q 1896.
Does anyone 'know their onions'?? 
Sandra
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London: Bradford, Van der Velden, Peill, Harris
Norfolk: Chilvers, Sparkes
IOW: Barton, Please, Shiner
Cheshire: Parker. Bradley, Hooley
Staffordshire: Buckley, Hargreaves
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carol8353
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Henry and Florence ROGERS- my grandparents
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My son was at school with an Andrew Penness.
You can guess what they called him 
Also, my neighbour married a Pratt-she soon made him change it to Platt.
On my searches through 1837online I recently came across  a Fanny Flash.
Well it made me laugh
I loved that Drew Peacock-Mick(still giggling about it)
Carol
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukRogers, Rapkin, Phillips - Hammersmith/Fulham/Paddington areas Worth Bailey, Heapy, Burgess. All Macclesfield Cheshire Mockridge,West Monkton Somerset Jenner,Clapham Surrey Kendrick,Liverpool Wensley,Somerset Coleman and Mc Namara from Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland Blake and Maloney from Kilbaha Co Clare, Ireland |
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A friend assures me there was a boy in his class at school called
Richard Head.
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Byers (Salford & London) Stringfellow (Salford & Chorley) Holmes (Manchester & Birmingham) Goulding/Golden (Birmingham & Lincolnshire) Bassett (Manchester & Salford) Child (Lincolnshire) Belshaw (Salford) Hallsworth (Eccles & Salford) Vernon (Bury) Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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stockman fred
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We had a guy at boarding school called P. Balls. Some wag pinned a fake notice on the games board with a made-up cricket team using real kids' names - it started "Duncan, Lickiss, Balls, "and so on and it took the teachers ages to figure out the subliminal message hidden within.
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Lemontree
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Hi
There is a solicitors in Warwickshire named Write Hassel, it is still trading.
Whilst searching graves in North devon i have found a few B*rstards, apprently it is a french name.
Lemon
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Lambendsor (aka IGS)
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Try this thread on a similar theme.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,88693.0.html
Not for the faint of heart.
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ENDSOR: Tamworth/Manchester
LAMB: Leeds/Manchester
SMITH: Manchester
HULME(S): Kirk Ireton/Manchester
WORTHINGTON: Middleton/Manchester
SHORROCK: Manchester
BROOKS: Wilmslow
By marriage in Manchester: BAXENDALE, DODD, EYERS, FIRTH, FISHER, FO(R)STER, HARGREAVES, J(A/E)RVIS, McKEOWN, OSBALDESTON, PICKWELL, PODMORE, SCHOFIELD, SHALLCROSS, STONES, WALKER
GRAY, DOYLE, GOLDEN, MONAHAN: Ireland
HAW(E), FRENEY, NARY: Co. Kilkenny
DONOHO and variants: Co. Longford
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