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BettyofKent
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My Mum, by RootsChat Restorers.
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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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Mary Ann Owens. Pain only makes you stronger.
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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, Coxon, Dixon
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Stothard/Stoddart
Cambridgeshire: Hatley, Coe, Flack, Linsdell, Kirby
Suffolk: Baker, Smith, Flatman
Cumbria: Peel, Scott, Askew
Gloucester: Wertheim, Westcott, Howell, Liles/Lyle/Lyle
Motherwell, Owens, Rice, Carey
Fife: Herd, Moyes, Rodger
County Tyrone: Owens, Fox, Downie
County Antrim: McGill/Magill
County Armagh: Quinn
County Donegal: McCartney
Glamorgan: Howell, Liles, Wertheim
Brecon: Griffiths
Merthyr Tdyfil: Edwards
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Reaybo M
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Mary Ann Owens. Pain only makes you stronger.
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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, Coxon, Dixon
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Stothard/Stoddart
Cambridgeshire: Hatley, Coe, Flack, Linsdell, Kirby
Suffolk: Baker, Smith, Flatman
Cumbria: Peel, Scott, Askew
Gloucester: Wertheim, Westcott, Howell, Liles/Lyle/Lyle
Motherwell, Owens, Rice, Carey
Fife: Herd, Moyes, Rodger
County Tyrone: Owens, Fox, Downie
County Antrim: McGill/Magill
County Armagh: Quinn
County Donegal: McCartney
Glamorgan: Howell, Liles, Wertheim
Brecon: Griffiths
Merthyr Tdyfil: 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(The Cariboo, B.C.): Pomeroy Somerset: Clark(e) Durham: Law London: Poplett Lancashire/Cheshire/CANADA (B.C.): Stubbs, Walmesley WRITE LETTERS TO YOUR FAMILY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR FOREVER ! Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Reaybo M
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Mary Ann Owens. Pain only makes you stronger.
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Lol made me chuckle!
Someone's parents had a sense of humour!
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Durham : Reay, Coxon, Dixon
Newcastle Upon Tyne: Stothard/Stoddart
Cambridgeshire: Hatley, Coe, Flack, Linsdell, Kirby
Suffolk: Baker, Smith, Flatman
Cumbria: Peel, Scott, Askew
Gloucester: Wertheim, Westcott, Howell, Liles/Lyle/Lyle
Motherwell, Owens, Rice, Carey
Fife: Herd, Moyes, Rodger
County Tyrone: Owens, Fox, Downie
County Antrim: McGill/Magill
County Armagh: Quinn
County Donegal: McCartney
Glamorgan: Howell, Liles, Wertheim
Brecon: Griffiths
Merthyr Tdyfil: 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, Shaw,
Sibley, Tyler, Vivian, Wallis, Waye, Willoughby.
Other antipodean immigrants.
New Zealand: Bailey, Hadland, 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, Shaw,
Sibley, Tyler, Vivian, Wallis, Waye, Willoughby.
Other antipodean immigrants.
New Zealand: Bailey, Hadland, Pickett
Queensland: Gummow, Kleine, Urmson
Victoria: Caudwell
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littlefishlock
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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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, Shaw,
Sibley, Tyler, Vivian, Wallis, Waye, Willoughby.
Other antipodean immigrants.
New Zealand: Bailey, Hadland, Pickett
Queensland: Gummow, Kleine, Urmson
Victoria: Caudwell
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