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« on: Sunday 03 August 08 23:43 BST (UK) »
Just looking through census for relatives and came across:

Mr Grimwood Death - a butcher in Gislingham Suffolk.  Roll Eyes
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Alexander, Suffolk and Lancashire; Ashworth,Whitworth, Grindrod Lancashire; Golden, Duffy County Mayo.
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« Reply #1 on: Monday 04 August 08 10:45 BST (UK) »
There used to be a butcher in Hull called Wildblood  Smiley

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« Reply #2 on: Monday 04 August 08 13:36 BST (UK) »
Wake and Paine, funeral directors.. Shocked
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« Reply #3 on: Monday 04 August 08 15:26 BST (UK) »
Dentist called Payne !!! (Called his house Toothacre !)
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« Reply #4 on: Monday 04 August 08 23:26 BST (UK) »
Not quite the same but a distant relative-who was called David and was an undertaker was always known as Di the death  Grin Grin Grin.
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 05 August 08 16:39 BST (UK) »
1975 Bildeston Suffolk - Funeral Directors named "Death and Son"
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 05 August 08 16:50 BST (UK) »
they may be descendants of Grimwood (Suffolk)
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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 06 August 08 09:22 BST (UK) »
Possible descendants of Grimwoods, who are actually in my son's family tree, his grandmother being the late Ruth Clarke nee Grimwood, who lived in Bildeston Suffolk
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 06 August 08 10:15 BST (UK) »
There is a butcher's in Clitheroe called Cowman.

Does hundreds of varieties of sausages, but they all taste the same to me.
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« Reply #9 on: Friday 08 August 08 02:21 BST (UK) »
There was a firm of Solicitors in Gateshead called Hadaway & Hadaway.  Grin



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« Reply #10 on: Friday 08 August 08 05:12 BST (UK) »
the surgeon who operated on my Nan's hernia was a Mr Cutter
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« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 12 August 08 10:55 BST (UK) »
Two from the West Midlands:
Gaunts Funeral Directors and
Doolittle and Dalley Estate Agents-yes really!!
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« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 12 August 08 12:13 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Margarett on Tuesday 12 August 08 10:55 BST (UK)
Two from the West Midlands:
Gaunts Funeral Directors and
Doolittle and Dalley Estate Agents-yes really!!

what a good one - I'm sure we all know people like that - but not rootschatters!
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Alexander, Suffolk and Lancashire; Ashworth,Whitworth, Grindrod Lancashire; Golden, Duffy County Mayo.
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