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BettyofKent
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That's going on my next order from Amazon 
It gives some sample pages, they are well worth looking at.
Imagine being called Pleasant Titty
Betty
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KENT: Stutely - Wittersham & Stone Padgham - Wittersham Wanstall - Northbourne Taylor - Ringwould & Ash Skinner - Deal Bushell - Walmer Cornwell - Ash, Sandwich, Wingham Dennis - Eastry & Dover Fagg - Elmstone Laurence - Northbourne & Betteshanger Relf - Kent & Sussex Also Funnell - Sussex Schloss - Nottingham & Massachusetts Cohen - Birmingham "Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov. |
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Reaybo M
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I have a 5x great aunt called Agnes Bogie.
Could be worse, could have been double-barrelled: Bogie-Green, etc.
Another name that comes to mind is a lady in my tree called Margaret Smellie. And in all honesty, she had no children and never married!
Interesting, eh?
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Durham: Reay, Dixon, Corkin.
Northumberland: Thompson, Turnbull, Peel, Reay, Stothard/Stoddart.
Gloucestershire: Wertheim (Jewish) , Howell, Lile/Lyle/Liles, Davis, Berrow.
Bristol: Westcott, Bayley.
Sufffolk: Fisher, Flatman, Baker, Smith.
Fife: Herd, Pearson, Moyes.
Lanarkshire: Russell, Millar, McDonald, O'Hara, McCartney, McGill/Magill.
Whitburn: Millar, Bryce.
Ireland: Owens and Fox (Tyrone), Hughes, Quinn, McCartney, O'Brien.
Glamorgan: Howell, Griffiths, Wertheim, Edwards.
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billkent
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Hi Reabo M, I think I was at school with her sister Nellie!!........On second thoughts I think I've got the names the wrong way round. 
Bill
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Reaybo M
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Lol, nice one! Love it!
Poor souls, imagine the registrars face when her birth was registered. There must have been some names coming through where the poor boy must have chuckled!!
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Durham: Reay, Dixon, Corkin.
Northumberland: Thompson, Turnbull, Peel, Reay, Stothard/Stoddart.
Gloucestershire: Wertheim (Jewish) , Howell, Lile/Lyle/Liles, Davis, Berrow.
Bristol: Westcott, Bayley.
Sufffolk: Fisher, Flatman, Baker, Smith.
Fife: Herd, Pearson, Moyes.
Lanarkshire: Russell, Millar, McDonald, O'Hara, McCartney, McGill/Magill.
Whitburn: Millar, Bryce.
Ireland: Owens and Fox (Tyrone), Hughes, Quinn, McCartney, O'Brien.
Glamorgan: Howell, Griffiths, Wertheim, Edwards.
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Lydart
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I've just had a day in the Manchester Record Office looking up deaths !
Whilst browsing through thousands of names looking for the one I wanted, I noticed a Fanny Bott, and worse still, a Sarah Sh*tt !!
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Dorset/Wiltshire: Trowbridge, Williams, Sturney, Prince, Foyle, Fripp, Triggle ... and more Cornwall/Devon/CANADA: Pomeroy Somerset: Clark(e) Durham: Law London: Poplett Lancashire/Cheshire/CANADA: Stubbs, Walmesley Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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billkent
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Hi Lydart, Bet they couldn't wait to get married.
Bill.
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Reaybo M
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Lol made me chuckle!
Someone's parents had a sense of humour!
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Durham: Reay, Dixon, Corkin.
Northumberland: Thompson, Turnbull, Peel, Reay, Stothard/Stoddart.
Gloucestershire: Wertheim (Jewish) , Howell, Lile/Lyle/Liles, Davis, Berrow.
Bristol: Westcott, Bayley.
Sufffolk: Fisher, Flatman, Baker, Smith.
Fife: Herd, Pearson, Moyes.
Lanarkshire: Russell, Millar, McDonald, O'Hara, McCartney, McGill/Magill.
Whitburn: Millar, Bryce.
Ireland: Owens and Fox (Tyrone), Hughes, Quinn, McCartney, O'Brien.
Glamorgan: Howell, Griffiths, Wertheim, Edwards.
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nudge67
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Had a customer recently (I own a furniture & flooring store) who went to great lengths with the staff to point out that the 'ck' in her exquisitely painful surname of 'Cockburn' was silent.
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19th century South Australian pioneers: Bowyer, Cassidy, Chesson, Davey, Degenhardt, Edwards, Floate, Hornsby, Jones, Ladner, Markey, McFeat, Messenger, Mills, Pike, Rees, Rhodes, Sibley, Tyler, Vivian, Wallis, Waye, Willoughby.
Other antipodean immigrants.
New Zealand: Hadland, Bailey, Pickett
Queensland: Gummow, Kleine, Urmson
Victoria: Caudwell
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nudge67
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one of the Hadlands (not a bad name in itself) in my tree was unfortunate enough to work in real estate with that name. She claimed she only married her husband for his much more pedestrian surname.
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19th century South Australian pioneers: Bowyer, Cassidy, Chesson, Davey, Degenhardt, Edwards, Floate, Hornsby, Jones, Ladner, Markey, McFeat, Messenger, Mills, Pike, Rees, Rhodes, Sibley, Tyler, Vivian, Wallis, Waye, Willoughby.
Other antipodean immigrants.
New Zealand: Hadland, Bailey, Pickett
Queensland: Gummow, Kleine, Urmson
Victoria: Caudwell
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littlefishlock
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Oh dear.... how sad am I?
1841 and some of the Fanny's in Middlesex gave me more than a chuckle....
These sound like they need immediate medical attention!
Fanny Burns, Fanny Clapp, Fanny Cramp, Fanny Hert, Fanny Gore,
Fanny Hyman, Fanny Crabb, Fanny Crawley Fanny Leach
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Fishlock - Chiswick - Isleworth - (lightermen), Whitchurch Hampshire
Robins - Uley, Gloucester and Richmond London
Hamilton - Rogers - Kent
Robinson - Monmouthshire - Worcestershire
Chivers - Monmouthshire.
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nudge67
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I've had another customer this week whose name we've all been struggling with - a Mrs Glasscock
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19th century South Australian pioneers: Bowyer, Cassidy, Chesson, Davey, Degenhardt, Edwards, Floate, Hornsby, Jones, Ladner, Markey, McFeat, Messenger, Mills, Pike, Rees, Rhodes, Sibley, Tyler, Vivian, Wallis, Waye, Willoughby.
Other antipodean immigrants.
New Zealand: Hadland, Bailey, Pickett
Queensland: Gummow, Kleine, Urmson
Victoria: Caudwell
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